Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil

by **AspirinE** » Sep 15th, '05, 17:28

by Richard Heinberg
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/479

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Like just about everyone else, I was transfixed by news reports from New Orleans and the Gulf coast of Mississippi and Alabama last week. My wife Janet grew up in New Orleans, most of her family members still live there (to the degree that anyone can for the moment say they live in the Big Easy), and we visit the city every year. The scenes were heart-wrenching and mind-boggling: an entire modern American metropolis had effectively ceased to exist as an organized society. The tens of thousands of survivors who had been unable or unwilling to evacuate prior to the storm were utterly helpless as they awaited rescue from the outside, some of them reduced to looting stores to obtain food and other necessities, a few even joining armed gangs.

Soon the Internet began pulsing with stories of how the Bush administration had exacerbated the tragedy by encouraging the destruction of wetlands and barrier islands, by appointing FEMA heads with no experience in disaster management, by focusing the agency

by **yoshi** » Sep 15th, '05, 17:42

thx Aspirine

i'm wondering, what'd happened, if one day we woke up and realize that there's no more oil.. :shock:

that might happen very soon i think.. :?

and i'm very curious, how long they'll be rebuilding New Orlean.. if they do it in the same way the evacuation was done, we'll have to wait a lil' bit.. :roll:

by **eminemcaparica** » Sep 15th, '05, 19:27

damn... some big read :shock:

but propz man

by **walend** » Sep 15th, '05, 20:34

damn the high oil prices making me pist off man!!!

by **Tomega** » Sep 15th, '05, 20:56

walend wrote:damn the high oil prices making me pist off man!!!

Your government has increased the tax on gas.. im sorry for ya man

by **dgentz** » Sep 17th, '05, 04:51

Tomega wrote:
walend wrote:damn the high oil prices making me pist off man!!!

Your government has increased the tax on gas.. im sorry for ya man

not the government... greedy gas companies and the shortage has driven up the price.

by **Tomega** » Sep 17th, '05, 09:55

^^^i was talking about Belgium

by **TRshady** » Sep 17th, '05, 12:29

The petrol situation is England is surprisingly calm ..
How much is petrol/fuel costing you?

by **dgentz** » Sep 17th, '05, 14:29

well, in the U.S., we're still better off than England as far as pricing goes.. but its up to like $3 a gallon, which for the US is absurd. a few years ago it was a dollar and change.

by **Tomega** » Sep 17th, '05, 15:27

in Holland more than

by **yoshi** » Sep 17th, '05, 16:33

here it costs about 4,40 PLN for 1 liter, it's about 1,12

by **eminemcaparica** » Sep 22nd, '05, 18:08

in portugal it costs 1

by **walend** » Sep 24th, '05, 16:34

eminemcaparica wrote:in portugal it costs 1

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Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil

Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil

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