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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: A New Batch Of Almost-Truths</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/14/peak-oil-denial-a-new-batch-of-almost-truths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who like conspiracy theory are well served by the Oil Establishment&#8217;s ceaseless quest to present world oil supply as sufficient if not &#8216;abundant&#8217;, denying the evidence of Peak Oil, and accessorily keeping a lid on oil prices. [1]
A Peak Oil Denial Sampler
We who feel an urgent imperative to explain the reality and expected consequences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: Not Understanding Doesn&#8217;t Help</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/20/peak-oil-denial-not-understanding-doesnt-help/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/20/peak-oil-denial-not-understanding-doesnt-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another in the seemingly endless string of cherry-picked story lines attempting to put to rest the “theory” of Peak Oil has found its way onto the internet, completely unremarkable in the talking points offered, which I’ll get to. What was most striking was not so much the uniform lack of understanding on the part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Gasoline Prices &amp; The Phony Blame Game</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/28/rising-gasoline-prices-the-phony-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/28/rising-gasoline-prices-the-phony-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Every time gasoline prices spike, no matter the reason, Republican leaders and talk radio’s libertarian elite reach for the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) latest talking points and crank up the ‘drill, baby, drill’ rhetoric&#8230;.
The GOP’s real energy crisis is one of focus. Republican leaders are focusing their energy on keeping America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Reality In Mind (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/13/keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/13/keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Hirsch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few more of those annoying facts to keep in mind as we (don’t) prepare for looming energy challenges, courtesy of three recent and excellent articles/interviews well worth the time to review in full [see Sources below for the links]:
Nothing can replace oil as the lifeblood of our culture and there is no domestic supply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Peak Oil Denial Train Rolls On</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/06/the-peak-oil-denial-train-rolls-on/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/06/the-peak-oil-denial-train-rolls-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Claiming there is an oil limit on the economy and why peak oil is inevitable is usually talked down by saying its an unsure theory at best, and controversial, fear mongering or defeatist at worst. The totally simple numbers which prove it are however not
Einstein-type mathematics and are not impossible to understand &#8211; - only [...]]]></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>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bakken Formation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heavy oil]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></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>
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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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		<title>Still More Never-Ending Efforts To Skate Past The Facts Of Peak Oil (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/10/10/still-more-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/10/10/still-more-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: Back in April, I followed-up on a series of posts which I first began a year ago and last discussed back in April ([links below*). In that series, I’ve discussed the apparently limitless ability of too many to either ignore facts about oil production entirely, or who instead resort to efforts where disingenuous arguments [...]]]></description>
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