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		<title>Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact: Mardi Gras</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/17/peak-oils-impact-mardi-gras/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/17/peak-oils-impact-mardi-gras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This post is part of an ongoing series (which started here) through the next few months whose purpose is to provide tangible examples of what our future might be like in a world where we will no longer have available to us the quality and quantity of fossil fuel energy sources as we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Look At Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact: Family Visits</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/01/31/a-new-look-at-peak-oils-impact-family-visits/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/01/31/a-new-look-at-peak-oils-impact-family-visits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This post is part of an ongoing series (which started here) through the next few months whose purpose is to provide tangible examples of what our future might be like in a world where we will no longer have available to us the quality and quantity of fossil fuel energy sources as we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More To Think About</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/12/16/more-to-think-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are trapped in a very complex civilization that is rapidly losing the sources of energy and numerous other raw materials 	that built and maintained it&#8230;.
“If current trends continue, somewhere in the next five years a critical mass of us will realize that new foundations for 	civilization, and new ways of life must be found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transportation Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/11/11/transportation-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/11/11/transportation-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I don’t think people quite understand how fundamental transportation is to the economy and their standard of living.” [1]
“Some might also wonder why a shortage of oil should automatically trigger a collapse. It turns out that, in an industrialized 	economy, a drop in oil consumption precipitates a proportional drop in overall economic activity. Oil is [...]]]></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 12:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></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>Some New Comments on Peak Oil &amp; Transportation</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/24/some-new-comments-on-peak-oil-transportation/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/24/some-new-comments-on-peak-oil-transportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lind is the Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program and a frequent contributor to Salon.com—a publication (and writer) whose perspectives I usually agree with. The new America website is quite good.
However, Mr. Lind recently published an article at Salon regarding the future of transportation—fixed/high-speed rail, specifically—that I take issue with. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact # 4: Visiting Your Dentist/MD</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/18/peak-oils-impact-4-visiting-your-dentistmd/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/18/peak-oils-impact-4-visiting-your-dentistmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main themes that I will return to repeatedly as this blog progresses is that of transportation.
I’ll permit others more technically savvy, experienced, and knowledgeable to address the issue of automobile usage and our eventual conversion of internal combustion engines to those that either run on alternative fuel/energy sources, or electric cars. (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil &amp; Transportation: Part III</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/10/peak-oil-transportation-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/10/peak-oil-transportation-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a goal of the United States to develop a national intermodal transportation system that moves people and goods in an energy efficient  manner. The Nation’s future economic direction is dependent on its ability to confront directly the enormous challenges of the global  economy, declining productivity growth, energy vulnerability, air pollution, and the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil &amp; Transportation: Part I</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/04/peak-oil-transportation-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/04/peak-oil-transportation-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve touched on the theme of transportation previously (here), and would like to devote the next couple of posts to exploring this vital topic a bit more.
“The automobile industry simply can no longer rely on oil to supply 98 percent of the world’s automotive energy  requirements.” Robert A. Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman for marketing
Changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few More China/Transportation Tidbits</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/18/a-few-more-chinatransportation-tidbits/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/18/a-few-more-chinatransportation-tidbits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up once more on my January 11th post about China’s increasing demand for oil (http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/11/the-world-of-transportation/), some more information courtesy of Tom Whipple and today’s Energy Bulletin:
China ended 2009 with oil imports averaging some 5 million b/d in December for the first time ever. Chinese demand is  expected to remain strong in 2010….Evidence abounds that China [...]]]></description>
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