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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: More Almost-Truths</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/21/peak-oil-denial-more-almost-truths/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/21/peak-oil-denial-more-almost-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his presentation to Montana Energy 2012, Michael Economides told Montanans, ‘You are already a superpower in oil production. You have already defied the trends and once again showed the can-do attitude of this industry, smashing the myth of the &#8216;peak oil&#8217;.
‘You have redefined and defied the trends suggesting strongly the future of energy is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 6)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/17/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-6/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/17/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This is the sixth and final installment of a subset of my ongoing series entitled Looking Left and Right (which began here; see Category sidebar for all links). This is about Peak Oil, but addresses the considerations and potential solutions from a different perspective than purely fact-based and/or he-said—she-said ones which too often dominate [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/14/peak-oil-denial-a-new-batch-of-almost-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[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: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 5)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/10/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-5/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/10/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Individuals can be expected to give dispositive empirical information the weight that it is due in a rational decision-making calculus only if they recognize sound information when they see it.
The phenomenon of cultural cognition suggests they won’t. The same psychological and social processes that induce individuals to form factual beliefs consistent with their cultural orientation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 4)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/03/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-4/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/03/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, emotional and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture and society at large. After forming our beliefs, we then defend, justify and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments and rational explanations. Beliefs come first; explanations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: &#8220;Peak oil is real and will stunt any economic recovery&#8221; by Rex Weyler</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/27/guest-post-peak-oil-is-real-and-will-stunt-any-economic-recovery-by-rex-weyler/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/27/guest-post-peak-oil-is-real-and-will-stunt-any-economic-recovery-by-rex-weyler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depletion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EROEI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

NOTE: In an effort to provide another platform for at least some of the insightful and important work being done by many others hoping to make our planet and its citizens a bit safer, healthier, and better-informed about matters affecting us all, from time to time I’ll turn blog space here on Peak Oil Matters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: How Does This Help?</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/13/peak-oil-denial-how-does-this-help-031312/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/13/peak-oil-denial-how-does-this-help-031312/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:52:59 +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=1520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not Peak Oil is true cannot possibly be in doubt. Within anything other than a geological frame of time, oil is a finite substance. When it is burned, it is gone. Without stretching our brains very far, it is easy to conclude that anything that is finite and consumed will someday be gone.
Peak Oil, then, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Keeping Reality In Mind (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/12/peak-oil-keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/12/peak-oil-keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EROI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ponder what it means that half of all the oil ever burned has been burned over the past 22 years and wonder about where the supplies will come from to fund the next 22 years. [1]
Thanks to Adam Smith and those who followed him, especially the current neoclassical economic theologians, we have seen such an [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil & Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANWR]]></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>Peak Oil Denial: Alive, Well, Still Not Helping (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/23/peak-oil-denial-alive-well-still-not-helping-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/23/peak-oil-denial-alive-well-still-not-helping-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cantarell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Second in a series]
Last week, an especially egregious but all-too-typical article found its way into the blogosphere, echoing the same tired, fact-free nonsense which now serves as the biblical foundation for denying the reality of what’s happening to a finite (as in NOT infinite) resource used each and every day for nearly two centuries by [...]]]></description>
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