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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: 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 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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		<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[oil production]]></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>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>Even More Never-Ending Efforts To Skate Past The Facts Of Peak Oil</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/04/27/even-more-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/04/27/even-more-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANWR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athabasca Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In two posts (here and here) written several months ago, I discussed once again the unfortunate truth that there remains a determined effort by some to either completely discount the reality of declining oil production, or who skate along the edges of truth by resorting to combinations of disingenuous arguments or incomplete facts.
Three articles in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STILL Not Getting It (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/28/still-not-getting-it-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/28/still-not-getting-it-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Direction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This is the latest installment in a new PeakOilMatters series (which started here). It’s about finding a new and better vision to get to, through, and beyond Peak Oil and its widespread impact on what we produce, how we produce, and how we live. We won’t be falling off a cliff tomorrow, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Refresher Course In Peak Oil</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/21/a-refresher-course-in-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/03/21/a-refresher-course-in-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IEA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This is the latest installment in a new PeakOilMatters series (which started here). It’s about finding a new and better vision to get to, through, and beyond Peak Oil and its widespread impact on what we produce, how we produce, and how we live. We won’t be falling off a cliff tomorrow, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Never-Ending Efforts To Skate Past The Facts Of Peak Oil</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/02/03/the-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/02/03/the-never-ending-efforts-to-skate-past-the-facts-of-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANWR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athabasca Valley]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m well aware that there is an unfortunately successful and all-too-often-employed strategy (lack of integrity aside) used most often in politics but certainly in discussions about Peak Oil and global warming, where the frequent repetition of any combination of lies, half-truths, misstatements, misrepresentations, and disingenuous propositions eventually leads to belief on the part of far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stubbornness Of Denial</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/12/20/the-stubbornness-of-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/12/20/the-stubbornness-of-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enhanced oil recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigh&#8230;.
This is my last planned post of 2010, and it was not my intention to discuss more curious examples of the phenomenon of ignoring facts. Like those who deny global warming amid an avalanche of evidence, the stubborn resistance to peak oil remains just as &#8230; well, stubborn. (When our military is worried, we should [...]]]></description>
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