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		<title>Peak Oil: The Transition</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/08/17/peak-oil-the-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[{A reminder to my readers: I was down South recently to set up my daughter for her senior year of college, and next week we travel to New York for several days to set up our other daughter for her sophomore year. We’ll return at the end of next week just long enough to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Impact # 8: Vacations</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/08/03/peak-oil-impact-8-vacations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is full upon us here in the U.S., and that means for many of us the joys of summer vacations. Hiking, camping, biking, visiting, beaching … all the favorable-weather options are available to us. Just this past weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of hosting family from both out-of-state and from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Initial Thoughts On Energy Policy</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/27/peak-oil-initial-thoughts-on-energy-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“China is still going to run circles around us. Policymaking by the political process is no match for a command economy. To cite just a few examples: The U.S. has committed a total of $13 billion to rail development, while China is already building a $556 billion high speed rail system that will link all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: More On Infrastructure (And Change)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/21/peak-oil-more-on-infrastructure-and-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll follow-up my last post by starting with two truths that (I hope) seem beyond rational dispute:
* “If the ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico tells us anything, it is that we need a new national energy policy—a comprehensive plan for escaping our dangerous reliance on fossil fuels and creating a new energy system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Another Look At Infrastructure (And Change)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/16/peak-oil-another-look-at-infrastructure-and-change/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/16/peak-oil-another-look-at-infrastructure-and-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are so woefully ill-prepared….
“[S]ix in ten surveyed by Pew believe that the economic situation will be better soon and that the recession is only temporary. This alone vividly illustrates how poorly the true state of the global economic situation is understood and the size of the shock that most of us are in for.
“Nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: More Fuzzy Math</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/12/peak-oil-more-fuzzy-math/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/12/peak-oil-more-fuzzy-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bakken Formation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post (here), I discussed the unfortunate practice by Peak Oil dissenters of cherry-picking facts to suit their skewed perspectives on the reality of oil production, conveniently neglecting to provide readers with the relevant background information needed to properly understand the issue at hand. An equally discouraging exercise is their use of vague, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Impact # 7 &#8211; A First Look At Air Travel</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/09/peak-oil-impact-7-a-first-look-at-air-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/09/peak-oil-impact-7-a-first-look-at-air-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[high-speed rail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil demand]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I came across a interesting article showing the production breakdown of a barrel (approximately 45 gallons) of oil.
I found it a bit surprising that only 4 gallons, or approximately 11 %, from every barrel of oil is typically produced as aviation fuel.
As Dave Jackson noted in another recent article:
“A-1 jet fuel, a high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Impact # 6 &#8211; Rural Communities</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/06/peak-oil-impact-6-rural-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/06/peak-oil-impact-6-rural-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had occasion to visit with my father at my parents’ property in the lovely Berkshire Mountains region of New England. They live elsewhere in western Massachusetts, but have owned this 30 acre parcel in a very rural community since I was very young. It’s not especially well-developed … there is no running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Impact # 5 &#8211; Laptops/Computers</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/01/peak-oil-impact-5-laptopscomputers/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/01/peak-oil-impact-5-laptopscomputers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with my recent theme of getting readers to recognize more “I didn’t think of that” moments as they relate to Peak Oil (while avoiding any kind of structured or overly-detailed approach that might discourage readers from continuing on), today I’d like to discuss the ubiquitous laptop/personal computer.
These almost-mandatory-for-our-lifestyles products are in no small measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Math</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/28/peak-oil-math/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/28/peak-oil-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times article described an upcoming BP effort (the same BP of Gulf of Mexico fame) to proceed with plans to drill for oil in a previously-identified oil field three miles off the coast of Alaska, in the Beaufort Sea. While the article nicely details some of the now-expected shenanigans which provided [...]]]></description>
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