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		<title>Looking Left and Right (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/30/looking-left-and-right-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/30/looking-left-and-right-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all act much the same way, ideologies notwithstanding. Human nature, I suppose. The more important questions: might we benefit from a bit of introspection before doing more of the same….
What comes after the ideology is appeased? How do we each and collectively deal with the outcomes of roads taken and not taken?
I could spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing On Our Future (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/26/focusing-on-our-future-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/26/focusing-on-our-future-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If we focus on trying to wean ourselves from dependence on oil, we can do it.
No, it won&#8217;t be easy&#8211;kicking an addiction never is. Yes, it might lead to some people eventually switching jobs or being slightly less fantastically wealthy (oil industry executives). And, yes, it will require some lifestyle and philosophical changes (ditto). But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Reality In Mind (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/19/keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/19/keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bakken Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten months ago, I offered this observation:
This is the reality: we’re NOT running out of oil, and we won’t for several more decades. But that is not the point and never is when discussing peak oil. Peak oil is about the rate of production, the quality of oil, the ease of access, refinement, availability, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing On Our Future (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/16/focusing-on-our-future-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/16/focusing-on-our-future-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exceptionalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spending cuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[… [W]e are farther away than we have ever been from having a shared national vision for the future of our country….
Absent such a framework for the future, the national debate has been the victim of an increasingly acute form of intellectual paralysis: The short-term mindsets of our elected officials and the voters — tied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Tiresome Denial</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/12/more-tiresome-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/12/more-tiresome-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bakken Formation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would the New Year be if we didn’t have an offering of more half-truth, delusional nonsense about our fossil fuel status?
Amy Myers Jaffe (nice takedown here) wrote an article for Foreign Policy a while back, serving up another example from the playbook of denial nonsense. As I suggested in a series of posts at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing On Our Future (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/02/focusing-on-our-future-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/01/02/focusing-on-our-future-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today
— Abraham Lincoln
Let’s work to make this a very good year for us all….
Imagine, if you will, a nation of 300-plus million people &#8230; the vast majority of them good, honest, decent, and hard-working (when they have the opportunity, that is).
Each and every one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peak Oil Holiday Wish List</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/12/15/a-peak-oil-holiday-wish-list/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/12/15/a-peak-oil-holiday-wish-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize that this is surely too much to ask of Santa this holiday season, but there’s never any harm in asking. Sometimes, when you least expect it, good things do happen…..
As we approach 2012, dealing as we are with a struggling economy; highly-partisan politics which get almost nothing done (in no small part because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couldn&#8217;t Resist: Peak Oil Denier Test Criteria (Pt 4)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/12/06/couldnt-resist-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-4/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/12/06/couldnt-resist-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn’t certain if I was going to write another post at this time on the phenomenon of the fact-free efforts to deny the reality of Peak Oil, but there is simply too much good crazy available to pass up the opportunity. There’s always the risk of getting into an endless battle over the nonsense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot The Peak Oil Denier Test Criteria (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/11/29/spot-the-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/11/29/spot-the-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EROEI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last two posts, there are some common threads running through the mostly nonsensical camps arguing against the reality that oil is a finite resource which is now on the downside of its maximum production rates. We fact-based lunatics call that Peak Oil.
I outlined (only partially tongue-in-cheek) some of the initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot The Peak Oil Denier Test Criteria (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/11/22/spot-the-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/11/22/spot-the-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hirsch Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, there are some common threads running through the mostly nonsensical camps arguing against the reality that oil is a finite resource which is now on the downside of its maximum production rates &#8230; Peak Oil.
[NOTE: If you have not yet read this terrific article by James Quinn and [...]]]></description>
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