tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52247642011-10-19T04:57:52.217-07:00OnticStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.comBlogger1141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-84236038238190342492009-09-17T15:45:00.000-07:002009-09-17T20:41:48.393-07:00She's Lost ControlI noticed this short story in the Dominion Post yesterday, regarding the legendary Ian Curtis wall. And it got me thinking about the original. No not the last original - this was the last one, which has it's merits - or should I say had, thanks to Wellington City Councils anti-tagging unit. But the original original, circa 1980. I remember going to Welly Polytech and seeing itStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-89470869248095898692009-02-17T17:04:00.000-08:002009-02-17T17:15:56.524-08:00General Motors seeks US$30b to avoid failure.Have the Governments of the world forgotten how economics works? If you can't sell enough product to survive then you have no right to be here. What the Governments of the world are doing is allowing business to believe they have rights outside of operating in a market. OK, there is an economic downturn. But ask yourself why? I'm not going to Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-26441372359425242452009-02-15T18:48:00.000-08:002009-02-15T19:08:28.286-08:00IEA admits Peak OilTraditionally the (International Energy Agency) IEA, has shyed away from the question of peak oil, the idea that we have, or are about to hit the maximum level of global oil production, after which we will begin an irrecoverable decline. However George Monbiot, award winning journalist from the Guardian discusses the question with Fatih Birol, the IEAs chief economist. The Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-89444930495140295982009-02-04T15:46:00.000-08:002009-02-04T16:49:12.683-08:00mala tempora curruntPhD update (now there's an excuse for not blogging)Is there a rule that every blog entry should begin with a (Smiths) song lyric, or a latin phrase?I've omitted the song lyric and I couldn't figure out the latin for "told ya so". And anyway that sounds petty and immature, and as readers, you will no doubt be aware, that I'm trying to not do petty and immature anymore. Call Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-5581576666715482392008-09-24T02:17:00.000-07:002008-10-10T16:32:59.812-07:00Life, love and in vino veritasEvery day is like sunday,Every day is silent and grey.Happiness part 1.There is some chimerical line that is crossed, somewhere between 35 and 45. It's the point of no *romantic* return. Mortgages, kids and flat screen TVs take precedence over "well up for it" tottie. Maybe I should be saying "real love", or maybe what idealists might call "true happiness", takes Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-9105326256463631412008-06-08T22:32:00.000-07:002008-06-08T23:10:19.599-07:00A historic moment. As many of you know, I have been talking about oil and our global economy, for a few years now. Many of the events now unfolding in the face of complete disbelief to many people are right here in this blog. In the last few days we have seen the highest single day spike of oil since it was first pumped out of the ground. It's timely to compile a few links to my articles/rantingsStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-16521793198681423842008-04-21T01:49:00.000-07:002008-04-21T18:50:43.121-07:00Playing Favorites #4The long awaited 4th track on my playing favorites. I just had a feeling, right now of sadness, because I'm on the other side of peak. I only have one more track after this, so the pressure naturally gets tighter on this side of the five. There could be a significant delay before #5. Wigan's The Verve are a band that I didn't pay too much attention to in the early 90s when Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-68515965623181471942008-04-19T19:49:00.000-07:002008-04-19T19:52:26.904-07:00Am I scaring you?I think it's because I'm clumsyI try not to talk too loudMaybe it's because I'm crazyI try not to act too proudStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-69955225837219566902008-04-11T21:33:00.000-07:002008-04-11T21:41:30.863-07:00An Apology. Last week I published a blog here (subsequently deleted) running down a NZ academic organisation. The blog also referenced a few individuals which I may well have inadvertantly offended. I didn't have that intention. The blog was written in the heat of a moment, overly emotive - a few swear words thrown in. But, it was over the top. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-84273847320016426952007-12-11T13:09:00.000-08:002008-12-09T19:52:39.575-08:00Scooter Rage - It's a mod thingWhat is it about the general (generally stupid) public that they feel they have the duty to accost scooter riders and make motherly obtuse comments about our riding ability or behaviours? Not to mention moronic retards driving several tonnes of metal who think it their god given function in life to run you off the road because you sneaked ahead of them in a queue.IStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-81654978646989422052007-10-29T15:38:00.000-07:002007-10-29T16:12:23.521-07:00A couple of post-scriptsSeems like nobody needs or wants Tamiflu anymore - " Thousands of doses of bird-flu medication languish on pharmacy shelves after the public ordered them in a state of pandemic hysteria – but never bothered picking them up." Doh, wasn't this supposed to be the pandemic that wiped the fucking earth clean? Rush out guys, tamiflu on special at your local pharmacy. Oil is Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-63320454527227942382007-07-30T21:36:00.000-07:002007-07-30T21:46:06.580-07:00A Previous CommentI did say it, back in February actually, that I thought blogging was pretty dull. As one might guess from the temporal gap between this blog and the previous, my actions are reconciled with my fingertips. I think blogging is dull - I just felt like saying it again. It's had it's day. Please note - this doesn't mean I think all bloggers are dull, although most are, I know one Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-60570194556201628712007-06-07T21:56:00.000-07:002007-06-17T23:25:49.875-07:00I can just about smell the CO2 on your breathOn Thursday 14th June I fly to Amsterdam to attend E-CAP'07, a Philosophy and Computing Conference. Check out the Conference Programme - in vivid technicolour, I am scheduled in to talk on the Saturday, just before lunch in the "Philosophy of Information and Information Technology" stream. After the conference I've been invited to visit Oxford Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-88302069196088210562007-05-31T02:30:00.000-07:002007-06-01T15:50:10.934-07:00Playing Favorites #3 I said to my gorgeous brother Stu last night, whom with his lovely partner Fritha hosted me for dinner and quality beverage, that I want to totally revise my Top 5 "imaginary Kim Hill playing favorites", incidently it's become a game... We couldn't agree about whether you ought to include a novelty track, and the definition of a novelty track couldn't be adequately agreed Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-22049499863354283992007-05-15T21:19:00.000-07:002007-05-15T21:23:14.983-07:00Focus... however, the dilemma we face is never too far from my mindStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-42230801926666890672007-05-15T12:47:00.000-07:002007-05-15T14:09:36.971-07:00Just fingering it out"I look around at a beautiful life, been the upperside of down, been the inside of out, but we breathe, we breathe" StereophonicsAt the urging of a friend (I was going to say incessant urging but that would be labouring the point, not to mention exaggerating) I've decided to write an entry about - well, nothing at all, about what blog entries are usually about. Life, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-31870405232895379912007-03-29T22:33:00.000-07:002008-04-21T02:23:55.948-07:00Playing Favorites #2Thought it was about time I published song number 2 on the list of 5. "Playing Favorites" is slot on Saturday morning Radio NZ National. The producer of the show hosted by Kim Hill is a bloke called Mark Cubey, quite an affable character, check out my previous Playing Favorites selection, over time I will produce five of them. If you reckon I'd sound ok ranting and raving Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-11838592283360061112007-03-19T20:03:00.000-07:002007-03-19T20:17:01.080-07:00Planet of SlumsJeremy Harding gives a great review of Mike Davis' Planet of Slums - here is a snip:Homogeneity, Davis would argue, is what late capitalism does: already a billion people live in roughly the same extraordinary way in roughly similar environments. Vast, contiguous slums are the habitat of the future for even larger numbers, yet the future looks more and more like it did the day Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-81201467386590718452007-03-08T16:53:00.000-08:002007-03-08T19:09:25.430-08:00Saudi Oil Production Down 8%Matt Simmons, peak oil guru is on record as saying "once Saudi peaks the world has peaked" (End of Suburbia). If he is right the the Reserve Bank won't have to worry too much about quelling the volatile housing market with interest rate hikes - hyperinflation will be the wolf at the door.Yet breaking news that Saudi oil production figures are down 8% for 2006 has Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-24532848349147462872007-02-18T15:11:00.001-08:002007-02-18T15:25:39.947-08:00Blogging : It's so 2006Well and truely back into the work-life, so I spent 3 minutes browsing a few blogs that I was reading last year, and to be honest the NZ blogs - the ones linked from Scoop.co.nz - well they are so goddamn boring.So much so, that to be frank, I can't be bothered participating in such nonsense. This isn't called apathy, it's just that I'd rather do something more fun. Like Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-27811888563699130882007-02-02T14:07:00.000-08:002007-02-02T14:25:57.673-08:00Clueless Fuckwittery Continues Unabated.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued Friday argues that the effects of anthropological emissions on climate will be with us for 1000 years. Worst case scenarios involve millions dead and trillions of dollars lost, extreme weather, droughts, wildfires, melting ice sheets, sea level rises, hurricanes - roll out the usual suspects. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-58361348473664804032007-01-30T16:59:00.000-08:002007-01-30T17:05:13.586-08:00Interesting HeadlinesScientists 'pressured on climate findings'The US continues to live in a fantasyland where the oil supply is infinite, entropy doesn't exist and anyone they don't like have WMDs.Sydney will boil if PM fails: IemmaIt's already boiling - isn't it the worst drought in living memory? No matter, the Federal Government don't recognise climate change so everything should be ok.HappyStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-29916215898506194682006-12-22T18:15:00.001-08:002006-12-23T18:58:27.737-08:00Freedom Hits 2006True automotive freedom has to be 3 to 4 hour delays driving out of Wellington north bound on State Highway 1. Merry Xmas and thank Christ for the motor vehicle. I can just hear the collective anger, frustration, whinging kids... Just what you needs to begin your holidays. And if you think more roads will solve this you head is up your arse.Thank god for America - I mean what Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-65317602827440654022006-12-18T12:22:00.000-08:002007-03-08T19:06:59.485-08:00Playing Favorites #1I've been trying to convince Mark Cubey to invite me on to Saturday National Radio to play my favorites. Usually you have to be someone - like be on TV, or have written some book, or saved a swamp or something. I haven't done any of that stuff - but I reckon my favorites would rate. My first track would be the natural rejoinder to the Beach Boys Surfing Safari - the Clash's Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-23983473193852621572006-12-13T17:03:00.000-08:002006-12-19T13:23:37.538-08:00Booyah!The neoconservative geniuses who believed invading Iraq would bolster both U.S. and Israeli interests in fact have accomplished the exact opposite -- handing both military and public-relations victories to their sworn enemies. ... If the Bush administration dares to move militarily against Iran, as it has an almost uncontrollable itch to do, we will become mired in a bloody conflict that Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-29691346261847126512006-12-10T16:06:00.000-08:002006-12-10T16:39:14.664-08:00Creating 5 problems by solving 1I remember when I was about 10 years old. The school I went to, this one summer, had a nasty wasp nest which of course held the attention of all the hubristic, testosterone ravaged lads of my age (including myself of course). The trick was to tease and irritate the wasps into a frenzy, then we'd all run around laughing slapping wasps off our legs, bodies and Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-33586825107938271512006-12-05T16:08:00.000-08:002006-12-06T17:00:54.936-08:00Far Quitery Knows No Bounds. or, please do not post pointless points in my commentsThe biggest flaw of the pseudo-philosophy called "objectivism" is that its principle tenents are a priori inalienable self-evident truths. Essentially this is a necessary condition for the belief that any particular act is objectively right or wrong. Additionally not helping the cause is the fact that the dogma is Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-25606454961834982102006-12-05T12:42:00.000-08:002006-12-05T17:40:35.821-08:00Joe Bennett and Asian KnickersI've always like Joe Bennetts humour, ironic, satirical and kiwish. This article suggests, him and I, we're on the same team - on ya Joe.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-53185645791283508992006-12-04T16:21:00.000-08:002006-12-04T16:29:49.665-08:00Closing the Collapse Gapby Dimtry Orlov Article Sourced from Energy BulletinHighly recommended compelling reading !Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-59362293762215276642006-11-30T16:06:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:54:46.345-08:00Nicky Hager: Late-Capitalisms True Punk RockerPublished on 1st Dec on ScoopThe fetish we call “freedom of speech” is resolutely defended in particular, we note, by the liberal right. Yet this creates a very uneasy tension. The pretence of the rational, utilitarian individual, very much aware of how things really are is contrasted heavily against the embodiment of the renounced belief in the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1164584500198651422006-11-26T14:37:00.000-08:002006-11-28T13:29:14.202-08:00Wednesday Morning Ramble, 29 Nov.Seeking my muse, or in order to find inspiration to write about this I browsed PCs blog - the fatuous nature of a lot of his content usually irritates me enough to write, for that I guess he deserves thanks. Sure enough I found inspiration in footnotes titled Saturday Morning Ramble, 25 Nov. The informal blog begins with this rather facile truisim (paraphrased). Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1163752632093674692006-11-17T00:33:00.000-08:002006-11-28T15:05:30.023-08:00New York MagicI'd do anything to get to this.If you are in New York - don't miss it, do not miss it! Weller truely captures the essence of a generation, from late 70s punk (The Jam), thru the 80s (Style Council) to the current rock revival with his solo work.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1162796281533825082006-11-05T22:23:00.000-08:002006-11-28T15:06:15.134-08:00Black Out As I drove my son home from swim squad tonight I (indicated then) pulled into a lane just in front of a morbidly obese brain-dead male driving a very new and expensive looking Mercedes Benz two door sport version - I mean the guy was so fat I'd have sworn someone had rammed a Humvee up his arse. I was (just) doing the speed limit. It really irritated him that I didn't accelerate away Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1161133587982878772006-10-17T17:51:00.000-07:002006-10-17T18:06:27.996-07:00All Quiet on the Industrial FrontPeople are probably wondering now, what use could a blog on peak oil be - the oil bubble has finally burst and we are seeing a return to normal prices, let the carbon monoxide flow... As consumer confidence perks it's time to go hoc a new plasma screen TV.I could go on, I could attempt a rebut of the gloating haha's I hear from the students of professor Pangloss.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1158719415519275802006-09-19T19:19:00.000-07:002006-09-25T12:56:49.930-07:00You could be excused for thinking I was dead.I actually nearly almost was - well in a metaphorical way. I have officially started the PhD. In itself not so scary, you have to break it all down into easily digestable bits. So, at present it is reading, reading, reading - and worrying, about what I am reading, that is, if it is relevant. A this stage it probably doesn't matter toooo much. The Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1152842660439237982006-07-13T18:59:00.000-07:002006-11-28T15:06:36.383-08:00$80 a Barrel - Just around the CornerNymex Crude Futures currently trading at US$78.05Watch for further rises at the pump by mid next week if we don't see a drop soon.This spike has been building over the last couple of weeks. I suspect we'll see the psychological $80 a barrel mark tested. Before oil settles yet another $10 a barrel higher.Fill up the Ford Explorer today folks.... but don't worryStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1152599222318920822006-07-10T23:24:00.000-07:002006-07-10T23:27:02.326-07:00Four Corners - Investigative Journalism - still - at its best.Well done to ABC's premier current affairs show, breaking Peak Oil to Australia. The wankers in New Zealand media should be ashamed. I've been begging them to run a story like this for several years.Enjoy on broadband. Highly Recommended.http://abc.net.au/4corners/Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1151544121035241252006-06-28T18:08:00.000-07:002006-06-28T18:39:14.813-07:00NZ's Energy Problems Coming Home to Roost! The trade deficit is out of control and while the evidence mounts that we are at peak oil now, or at least before the end of the decade rabid fuckwittery by the government is not in short supply with yet further announcements of motorway building spending sprees...Trade deficit explodes Govt crosses its fingersAucklanders ought to prepare themselves for Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1150930407119567182006-06-21T14:36:00.001-07:002006-06-21T15:59:48.490-07:00Hon Harry Duynhoven at odds with Prime MinisterI suggested to Harry Duynhoven that mainstream opinion about when peak oil might occur was not synonymous for bullshit "business as usual" international energy agency rhetoric. I pointed out to Harry that the Prime Minister agrees with me, not him nor the IEA. And I suggested he should garner the guts to say that the Prime Minister's opinion like Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1150078967560841062006-06-11T19:14:00.000-07:002006-06-11T19:22:47.573-07:00Major Electricity Crisis in Auckland Today!If this isn't a wake up call what is? It just shows what happens when the lights go out. The largest city in New Zealand has ground to complete a halt. Electricity has been out since this morning because a single 110-kilovolt feeder line broke. Basically life is cancelled today in Auckland. I wonder - will people get it? Will this wake up the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1150004133332002182006-06-10T22:31:00.000-07:002006-06-10T22:35:33.343-07:00Streaming now in Glorious Stereo - for anyone here. NZ Time 5.30pm Sunday Eveninghttp://38.96.148.21:4610/ play URL in WinampWould be interested to know if anyone can get the alias going. tyrrell.serverroom.us:4610 (testing the winamp crossfader) Classic rock playlist. Building up some more hardcore playlists - if you feel like something with a bit more punch - comment away...Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1149842103699992562006-06-09T01:26:00.000-07:002006-06-09T02:59:12.166-07:00For my fans (all three of you)I'm now streaming (mainly cos I got a gig in Second Life dj'ing haha) audio. What that means is I am now able to inflict my music on you (if you so desire). You just need Winamp (downloadable free via the link) and if you're not using it to play your music on your computer your just silly - it's way the best. Once you've got winamp, or if you already have it. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1148519102265335202006-05-24T17:50:00.000-07:002006-11-28T15:07:06.792-08:00Stuck at Home in SuburbiaI have a friend, currently living in a great house Central City, Wellington. You can walk anywhere in town and the Midnight Expresso is just a stones throw away. My friend is going through a combo-crisis. She is approaching 40. And she is about to move to suburbia.This frightening tension says a lot about the mid-life mystery. When multiple bathrooms, double garages, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1148446295413123442006-05-23T21:46:00.000-07:002006-06-20T01:19:45.676-07:005 Minute throw away thought. For the wankers fascinated with non-sequitursStu mentioned - LibertyScott raises valid points though. What's our problem with peopleliving wherever they want and how they want. If these guys had their way,the roads to those suburbs would be privately funded, through privateland. The people who lived there and built the roads would be the onlyones who fell over when Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1146791940460447012006-05-04T18:13:00.000-07:002006-05-04T18:20:04.966-07:00Stress Relief as Southern Lakes FillWarm Showers Forecast for WinterI guess we have to be relieved that inflows into Tekapo and Pukaki have significantly "bumped" in the last couple of weeks. The inflows are approaching average again which means we can probably breathe easy this winter. Unlikely we'll be having cold showers, this year at least.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1146791607630280912006-05-04T18:10:00.000-07:002006-12-06T15:55:24.028-08:00Oil Price Out of Control As World Pumps at CapacityThis was published on Scoop last week, I forgot to also publish here - here it is.Powerless NZ27 April 2006As consumers around the world baulk at US$75 oil (per barrel) suspicion sets in that the oil companies are price gouging even when a few seconds rational thought informs us that oil is traded transparently on the open market to the highest Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1145936129627659172006-04-24T20:33:00.000-07:002006-12-06T15:55:45.515-08:00NZ Prime Minister out of the closet on Peak OilPowerLess NZ Press Release21 April 2006As the price of oil hangs at record heights, unmoving, like a pall threatening to choke economies and festering the sore that is inflation (October delivery contracts on the NYMEX are over US$75 a barrel), the cattle-class as well as the impotent media transfixed by daily trivialities and titillations by and Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1145416781737579702006-04-18T19:58:00.000-07:002006-04-18T20:19:41.746-07:00Oil Settles Over US$71.Interestingly the media largely ignored the movement from around $62 a few weeks ago to the current 70 odd dollars a barrel. However the last 48 hours have seen all the usual excuses being rolled out, Nigerian concerns, Increasing descent into civil war in Iraq, Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction etc. So the average clueless punter queuing up at the pump is paying all Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1142903356925014242006-03-20T16:25:00.000-08:002006-03-20T17:09:16.946-08:00NZ Ministry of Economic Development - US$40 Oil Soon.Level 3 NCEA "Oil Forecasting""Both theory and empirical evidence suggests that oil futures markets are probably the best source of future oil price projections."Oil Price Assumptions and Scenarios (Samuelson, 2005)This report goes on to argue that after 2010 oil will drop back to around US$40 per barrel. I doubt Mr Samuelson would ever dare Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1141954537937970442006-03-09T17:20:00.000-08:002006-03-09T17:35:37.950-08:00Roy Hemmingway Performs Korbut FlipWith a double salto ending in the lunge position.Perhaps I'll leave it to you to judge. Last Thursday"Roy Hemmingway says it is a myth there is a high risk of Auckland blackouts from 2010 and another myth that there will not be enough power this winter"and today,"Electricity Commission chairman Roy Hemmingway said the situation had become a matter of concern. "Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1141775030219858522006-03-07T15:30:00.000-08:002006-03-08T00:32:50.230-08:00Oil, Simmons, Iraq and the forthcoming Electricity Crisis. Matt Simmons and Peak OilThere have been some very interesting articles written in recent days. Take Matt Simmons's very good article Outlook 2006 What a Difference 20 Years Makes in Crude Oil Prices. The key point to be taken from this article is how fundamentally wrong most economists got it over the last 20 years. Simmons illustrates Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1141349788945834862006-03-02T16:42:00.000-08:002006-03-02T17:36:28.960-08:00Where's My Free Lunch? The popular truism, merely a restatement of the laws of thermodynamics, that is (simply) that you can't get anything for nothing is at strangely at odds with the economists "market will always provide", dogma. It used to be God that would always provide, but we mustn't forget, as we are told, we live in a secular society. And so, religious fundamentalism has been replacedStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1140749299229610802006-02-23T18:38:00.000-08:002006-02-23T18:48:19.243-08:00The Nuclear Ship PolicyThe ACT party think that we ought to "debate" the nuclear ship policy. That is, they want the US Nuclear ships to come back to New Zealand, they want to turn the clock back so we can all belong to that cosy post-second world war ANZUS treaty again. Heather Roy, published this point of view in her weekly diary, it's now published as an ACT Press Release on Scoop.Anyway, I Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1139538830994385022006-02-09T18:17:00.000-08:002006-02-09T18:33:51.006-08:00As good as it will ever get.It always amazes and irritates me to listen to people who talk about the "future". This is the future, this is it now, this is as good as it gets. The real future, the actual future will be a regression. We'll never fly around in personal George Jetson jets. In the future there won't be economic growth. Things are not going to get better. There won't be the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1139272059298471242006-02-06T15:46:00.000-08:002006-02-06T16:27:39.313-08:00Addicted to the stuff?I've just returned to work from a wonderful extended holiday, the weather has been brilliant - a long hot summer not unlike the ones I remember as a kid. Apart from busting my Acromo-Clavicular ligament (yes, the downside of the Vespa - it's a long boring story...) things have been great. Other than fat interest rates on the credit card, a nasty Christmas hangover for manyStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1134513099901422552005-12-13T14:21:00.000-08:002005-12-14T13:33:12.526-08:00Hiding from RealityAgainst LibertarianismSuzzane Wright on a blog site entitled The Whig had a good crack at the libertarian philosophy. I couldn't help toss in my $0.02 worth. Being the lazy procrastinating sod that I am I've posted the comment. You can read Suzzane Wright's article if you like, it's just as interesting as her photo - on The Whig.***I think the reason libertarians (viewed in Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1133826383315384422005-12-05T15:04:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:56:34.787-08:00The Mumbo-Jumboism of Infinite ResourcesThe decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.John Maynard KeynesI often find myself having to "let go" of the irritation that builds up as a result of my Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1133312110869267872005-11-29T16:12:00.000-08:002005-12-01T18:31:15.316-08:00Kuwaiti Burgan Oil Field PeaksRodney Hide buries head in the sandPumping oil for almost 60 years the Burgan oil field in Kuwait is the second largest in the world (second to the Saudi Ghawar field). In an interview with Bloomberg Farouk Al-Zanki Chairman of the Kuwait Oil Company described the field as "exhausted". After failed attempts to keep production at around 2 million barrels per day the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1132539743265178192005-11-20T18:03:00.000-08:002005-11-21T18:41:13.486-08:00Cluelessness, Democracy and Suburban Hell for Everyone"Freedom is the recognition of necessity" (Hardin, 1968)Those enamoured by liberal democracy (in an idealistic way) are often guilty of incorrectly assuming that (and I think I've said this a few times) contained within the slurry of half-arsed ideas that our information-overloaded society offers, there is at least one idea that if enough Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1131497579518392392005-11-08T16:49:00.000-08:002006-12-19T15:39:41.914-08:00Peak Oil: An Austere Futureby Steve McKinlayThis article was published by the NZ Futures Trust in their e-Future Times Journal, Volume 15, September 2005. I recently noted the dead link - NZ Futures Trust have reorganised their web site. I have republished the article below. Peak Oil: Ramifications for NZ in the 21st CenturyBy Steve McKinlayJune 2005Increasingly commanding world attention is Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1131413407427179852005-11-07T17:24:00.000-08:002005-11-07T17:30:07.440-08:00RIPRod Donald, Co-leader, New Zealand Green Party.Aged 48 yrs died Saturday 5th November, 2005"He is an incalculable loss to the Green Party, to the country and to me personally."Jeanette FitzsimonsStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1130791795552719282005-10-31T11:58:00.000-08:002005-11-02T17:51:34.900-08:00The Second Coming of Jesus Christ and Bird Flu...or, don't believe the hype, it's a sequelThe great thing about a blog site is that you get to make predictions which if you are correct, give you the ability to point everyone to the archived blog saying "told you so". Here's my prediction. The so called bird flu, the chicken disease that has killed a wopping 59 people in the world, the disease Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1130282535565080352005-10-25T16:05:00.000-07:002005-10-27T17:47:49.133-07:00Death, Tamiflu, Donald Rumsfeld, Bird Flu and other Nonsense!After writing about my skepticism of "bird flu" I was pointed to the link between Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence and a company called Gilead Sciences. Interestingly, Gilead is the company that owns and markets the Tamiflu drug (well, not exactly but it makes good copy). Gilead owns the rights to Tamiflu, Roche however makes Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1129847989379153512005-10-20T14:14:00.000-07:002005-10-20T18:55:31.743-07:00Bird Flu and Peak Oiland the not so rare condition of myopic red herringismThe Ministry of Dodgy Advice, a-hem I meant Economic Development are currently very busy stirring the entire country into a hysterical panic driven frenzy over a "possible" bird flu pandemic. (from Stuff.co.nz)A bird flu pandemic could strike 1.6 million New Zealanders, killing 33,000 and decimating the country's Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1129770302826883902005-10-19T17:16:00.000-07:002005-10-19T20:24:19.246-07:00On regime change, ministers of energy and vespas... Yes indeed we have a new Government, or should we say a menagerie. I guess I was hoping for some inspired leadership as we enter this new era, one which will be defined by energy (mark my words). Inspired leadership however is eroded within indecisive democracies as much as it is by multi party representation (Germany seems to be suffering the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1129060841957684752005-10-11T12:58:00.000-07:002005-10-11T13:00:41.963-07:00I've been on holidaySo, haven't had a chance to write - however James Kunstler sums up the current situation quite well. I leiu of any words of wisdom from moi, check out Jim's latest offerings. For the moment, it's back to business-as-usual for Easy-motoring Nation.Steve. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1127431530753290692005-09-22T16:15:00.000-07:002005-09-22T16:37:33.110-07:00The Clueless March Toward OblivionWe, in all likelihood, are going to have significant shortages ofgasoline, Bush said. I would urge people to recognize this, not tohoard.That's Jeb Bush, Texas Governer.With analysts on cable news channels raising the possibility that Rita could push gas close to $5 a gallon, some Floridians on Thursday were filling up - just in case.This is sure to have a flow Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1126834568650117472005-09-15T18:24:00.000-07:002005-09-15T18:36:08.656-07:00The Long Emergency BeginsPeople obsessed with Britney Spears sprog and the lastest in the Paris Hilton hacker debacle obviously didn't notice that 2 major US airlines hit the wall this week. Two weeks after the US's all time biggest natural disaster the timing is ironic if not uncanny.Hilariously TIME magazine reports "bankruptcy is not the end", ha, like death is not the end. It seems like the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1126753253694194512005-09-14T19:42:00.000-07:002005-09-15T14:39:59.203-07:00Why I'll be Voting Greens.I've never voted for the Green Party before although being a surfer, windsurfer, tramper, living with a Scottish father that grew all our vegetables, I remember getting a telling if I threw a banana skin in the bin and not the compost bucket. Being these things and more I guess I've always had a point of view that took into consideration ecology, conservation as in "Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1126558043825226232005-09-12T13:18:00.000-07:002005-09-12T13:47:23.833-07:00"A Leader Must Have a Vision" Don Brash, Leaders Debate (sometime last week)Never mind if that vision is an apparition, you'd think the vision that Don Brash had was one of virgin Mary Mother of God indicating that oil will return to $35 a barrel.I want everyone to think very carefully about this. The Brash/Key decision to cut petrol tax is nothing more, nothing less than a blatent cynical Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1126226743931394902005-09-08T17:43:00.000-07:002005-09-08T17:45:43.936-07:00Two Very Good Peak Oil ArticlesHaving a break from writing, here are two excellent articles worth reading.Peak Oil and the Working Class By Dale Allen PfeifferThe Peak Oil Crisis: The Storms of August By Tom WhippleSteve.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1125885970252485332005-09-04T18:15:00.000-07:002005-09-04T19:06:10.256-07:00Institutionalized Plonkerismand if bullshit was bitumen...Unbelievably following the virtual destruction of New Orleans and surrounding towns people still don't get it. Whining like a fucked diff, the combustion engine lobby are all collectively screaming for fiscal relief at the petrol pump, the lastest joke is the email going round asking drivers to boycott service stations today. As if thatStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1125620898271306852005-09-01T17:25:00.000-07:002005-09-01T17:28:18.276-07:00NFI Award Winner of the WeekDelusional thought continues unhindered as petrol and oil prices continue the endless march skyward.The NFI award this week must go to...Christchurch Holden Enthusiasts' Club President John Miller."Miller, who drives a 5.7-litre Holden SS, acknowledged that he owned a petrol-thirsty car, but said he should not have to give up his passion for petrol company 'greed'. "Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1124331836356736702005-08-17T19:22:00.000-07:002006-12-06T15:58:38.029-08:00New Zealand Ponders Peak OilThe power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw. As we all race to convert the fictitious new capital in our properties into Toyota Prados, LCD screen TVs, and package holidays to the Gold Coast cluelessness in regard to the global energy/economic situation continues unabated.The single most important Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1124063038717390542005-08-14T16:39:00.000-07:002005-08-14T16:43:58.723-07:00David Lange 1942 - 2005The Giant Totara Has Fallen.Photo - Photopress, Dean Purcell Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1123717351085909542005-08-10T16:38:00.000-07:002005-08-10T16:46:46.133-07:00Inspired Leadership (fuckwittery) By the New Zealand GovernmentProjection of short-term Brent oil prices in the December Update are based on futures prices at the time of finalising the forecasts. This sees a gradual decline in prices to US$43 per barrel in March 2005, and to US$40.50 per barrel by March 2006. By the end of the forecast period, the oil price is projected to reach US$35 per barrelStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1123639928496259202005-08-09T18:12:00.000-07:002005-08-11T16:02:23.523-07:00Oil, Mental Retardation and AlcoholismTransmission Gully Axed! Maurice Williamson, contendor for the NFI Award of the week, Champion of the Order of the White Elephant either has the same problem as the alcoholic; denial. Otherwise he has some form of mental retardation.Heather Roy, (ACT) a clueless bimbo with as much understanding of energy as a rodent running on a treadmill might have to share Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1122944345777533102005-08-01T17:55:00.000-07:002005-08-01T18:03:13.423-07:00January 06 Delivery Sweet Crude hits US$64Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1122846631135466462005-07-31T14:31:00.000-07:002005-07-31T14:50:31.140-07:00The Hirsch Report - Missing in ActionGlobal Public Media report that the controversial "Hirsch Report" into Peak Oil has disappeared from the internetIn Brief: Half a year after its release, the Hirsch report is nowhere to be found. For several months it was archived, in PDF format, on a high school web site (www.hilltoplancers.org, Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, Calif.). On July 7 the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1122515549940641152005-07-27T18:37:00.000-07:002005-07-27T19:39:45.143-07:00Fucktard Studies in GlobalisationTrolling the pages of a little text on "Strategy" trying to find interesting snippets for my students I stumble upon this clueless example of complete ignorance by Eric Hobsbawm, The New Century .We are certainly a single global economy compared with thirty years ago, but we can say with equal certainty that we'll be even more globalised in 2050, and very much Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1121050417591397892005-07-10T18:09:00.000-07:002006-12-06T16:00:31.710-08:00The 'A' Bomb In Wardour StreetWhere the streets are pave with blood,With cataclysmic overtones,Fear and hate linger in the air,A strictly no-go deadly zone,I don't know what I'm doing here,Cause it's not my scene at all,There's an 'A' bomb in Wardour Street,They've called in the Army, they've called in the police.Paul Weller, 1978I think there are two thoughts we ought to seriously consider in Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1120688008619919542005-07-06T14:45:00.000-07:002005-07-06T15:13:28.626-07:00Governments Pork-Barrel Roading Policy...and NFI Award Winner of the WeekIt’s election season right, let’s roll out the pork-barrel. Such can be the only conceivable reason this Government on election hogmanay, as the sun sets on the era of cheap oil, decides to invest millions in an infrastructure that has absolutely no future. Oil hovers around US$60.00 per barrel and is predicted by many Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1120179093059545632005-06-30T17:00:00.000-07:002005-06-30T17:55:35.206-07:00The Kiwi Dream and the End of Economic GrowthFreezing cold across most of New Zealand this week and Auckland electricity spikes upwards of 94% odd utilisation. Move demand beyond the available supply and who knows what happens - perhaps substations trip and then how do you bring them back on line. Maybe you get brown-outs? I'm not sure, no one has really talked about that. You'd think this kind Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1117079851526842572005-05-25T20:53:00.000-07:002005-05-25T20:57:31.533-07:00Net Energy Gain and Photo VoltaicsIn the early days of PV cells NEG (Net energy gained) of their production was actually below 1. Today it is above 1 but no-one knows by how much as the effective productive life of a PV cell is not known. The most modern estimate is that after 2 years service a PV cell has equalled the energy required to manufacture and install it.This summation (2 years of Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1116322916239709852005-05-17T02:29:00.000-07:002005-05-17T02:50:10.023-07:00On Being Quiet! One might wonder, why the silence? I can tell you. In two weeks I'm off on a junket tour of Sweden, Scotland and England. Specifically, Vasteras, near Stockholm, Sweden for the E-CAP (European Conference on Computing and Philosophy). I am presenting a paper entitled "Can Knowledge be an Immutable Data Type? The limits of the model theoretic approach". More than happy to provide Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1113429402931085402005-04-13T14:52:00.001-07:002006-12-06T16:01:40.096-08:00Peak Oil and Mirage RealismPowerLess NZ Press Release. 13 April, 2005Realism is the philosophical notion that what our scientific theories tell us about the world are more or less, or approximately true. Scientific theories are generally considered to be the pinnacle of human knowledge. Although ultimately fallible and always up for revision the scientific method for discovering knowledge has, Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1112336124576385532005-03-31T22:12:00.000-08:002005-03-31T22:15:24.580-08:00NFI Award of the Week...and the winner is Larry Baldcock - United (no) Future United Future transport policy announcedFriday, 1 April 2005, 3:50 pmPress Release: United Future NZ Party Media statementUnited Future transport policy announcedGreater transparency in road funding, the ultimate four-laning of State Highway 1 from Kaitaia to Invercargill, the possible splitting-out of traffic Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1112237455955940032005-03-30T18:48:00.000-08:002005-03-30T18:53:13.353-08:00Another gem from Jim Kunstlers Clusterfuck Nation ChronicleThe Hooverisation of George W. BushAfter the convulsion of Word War Two, we went back to confidently marshalling our resources with a vengence. We took all that oil, all the mineral wealth, the raw land, the timber, and other riches and directed it into the dubious-but-profitable project of building a suburban utopia. We're now in the Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1111537842265829982005-03-22T16:27:00.000-08:002006-12-06T16:02:52.970-08:00The Endless Supply of Oil and Other Fairy TalesThe rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe it at our pleasure.Heinrich Hertz, 1895Common bloviated pigeon-chesting by those that believe our drive-by fantasyland will continue ad-infinitum include the following claims;• Ho hum, heard it all in the 70’Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1110255667303566632005-03-07T20:14:00.000-08:002005-03-07T20:21:07.313-08:00Letter to Wellington City Councillors re V8 SuperCar Race Planned for WellingtonAlick Shaw; Andy Foster; Bryan Pepperell; celia.wade-brown@wcc.govt.nz; Hayley Wain; Helene Ritchie; Jack Ruben; Kerry.Prendergast@wcc.govt.nz; Rob Goulden; Robert Armstrong; Stephanie CookDear Councillors, Last week the price of oil again moved beyond US$55 per barrel. This is a 400% increase in the price since 1998Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1109897069837084512005-03-03T16:38:00.000-08:002005-03-03T17:12:50.530-08:00NFI Award of the WeekNew Zealand Customs Minister Rick Barker quoted on the recent petrol tax hike;petrol prices have fallen and oil prices stabilised, making April 1 a suitable date to bring in the extra chargeI wonder if Rick Barker could pass Level 1 of NCEA Maths? The price of oil is more volatile since the 1970s and the price has risen almost 400% since 1998. This comment is indicative of Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1109811824809726922005-03-02T16:22:00.000-08:002005-03-02T18:07:15.113-08:00Petrol Tax: The real reason for the hike."Some people have wacky ideas,” the new Republican campaign ad alleges. “Like taxing gasoline more so people drive less." Although I tend to shy away from this sort of speculation - I'd like to propose a conspiracy theory. Our Government is well aware of Peak Oil, the fact that sometime within the next few short years global maximum peak oil production Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1109722897608503822005-03-01T15:48:00.000-08:002005-03-01T16:21:37.616-08:00NZ Politicians Inflicted with Acute Stupidity It may be lost on some people that a rise in the price of oil of almost 300% since 1999 is a trend. It's a trend that won't go away. New Zealand politicians of almost all persuasions (with the possible exclusion of the Green Party) continue to bang on about how the current high price of oil is an abbertation. That prices this year some time will Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1109633659584388482005-02-28T15:15:00.000-08:002005-02-28T15:44:49.686-08:00Jim Kunstler's Eyesore of the MonthFrom Jim Kunstlers Clusterfuck ArchivesStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1108588938053665122005-02-16T13:19:00.000-08:002005-02-18T17:48:50.370-08:00NZ EcomagazineA new magazine that is about the be released - this week or next I think, watch out for it.Anyway, they have invited me to write an article. I thought I'd publish the first couple of paragraphs, I like them. It's supposed to be about Peak Oil but I got carried away with myself. Comments welcome - if anyone reads this godforsaken blog.edited 18th FebThe End of The Age of ReasonThe Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1108588617448476952005-02-16T13:09:00.000-08:002005-02-16T13:16:57.453-08:00on PEANZ - Petroleum Exploration Association of NZThe converstation with Mike Patrick of PEANZ continued. I shan't bore anyone with the detail, but interestingly Mike said some of these things. I re-state my case – yes, one day the world’s petroleum reserves will physically run out, despite that fact that it is a “renewable” resource Mike thinks oil is a renewable resource!? NZ probably will Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1108081820346966942005-02-10T16:17:00.000-08:002005-02-10T16:34:06.423-08:00An interesting exchange with the Petroleum Exploration Association of New Zealand.
The press release Booming Oil & Gas Ind. Seeks Level Playing Field on the 2nd February 2005 in Scoop prompted me to ask further questions of Petroleum Exploration Association of New Zealand.
PEANZ claimed that New Zealand could become self-sufficient in regard to it's production of oil. I asked the question whatStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1107909028245607032005-02-08T16:27:00.000-08:002005-02-08T16:42:37.043-08:00The Dawn of the Second Half of the Age of Oil
by Colin Campbell
from the ASPO Feb Newsletter, Feb 9, 2005
This Newsletter has now been running for four years and has covered almost 500 items of interest. It is accordingly perhaps timely to look back and try to summarise what might be learnt from the exercise. The Newsletter started in a modest way with no particular mission, concentrating at Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1107382448436121122005-02-02T14:10:00.000-08:002006-12-06T16:04:45.647-08:00Peak Oil and The Sociology of KnowledgeOriginal Article posted on Scoop 2 February, 2005A Peak Oil PrimerThis article also now appears on Energy BulletinAnyone who wants to drag in the irrational where the lucidity and acuity of reason still must rule by right merely shows that he is afraid to face the mystery at its legitimate place. Karl Mannheim (1952).The significance in differences in Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224764.post-1107472948590480952005-01-31T16:22:00.000-08:002005-02-03T15:57:22.496-08:00Two Thumb Tarn
Two Thumb Tarn
Originally uploaded by ontic steve. I was here three weeks ago. The Two Thumb Range, between Lake Tekapo and the Rangitata River, Canterbury, NZ. Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975015072654786816noreply@blogger.com0