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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[ANWR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athabasca Valley]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[natural gas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil shale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shale gas]]></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>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enhanced oil recovery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=612</guid>
		<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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		<title>Some Updated Peak Oil Facts To Consider</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/11/29/some-updated-peak-oil-facts-to-consider/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/11/29/some-updated-peak-oil-facts-to-consider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil-based products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Hirsch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As has been reported on a number of other Peak Oil-related websites, the International Energy Agency, in its World Energy Outlook 2010, has finally come around to admitting what many have been stating for some time: Peak Oil is no longer a challenge to be faced in the distant (or even not-so-distant) future. The IEA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: More Fuzzy Math</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/12/peak-oil-more-fuzzy-math/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/12/peak-oil-more-fuzzy-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:47:01 +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=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post (here), I discussed the unfortunate practice by Peak Oil dissenters of cherry-picking facts to suit their skewed perspectives on the reality of oil production, conveniently neglecting to provide readers with the relevant background information needed to properly understand the issue at hand. An equally discouraging exercise is their use of vague, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Noting</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/31/worth-noting-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/31/worth-noting-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athabasca Valley]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting news item this past week concerning Royal Shell’s Athabasca Valley oil sands project. I spoke about the Athabasca tar sands in my January 20 post (here).
As reported by the Financial Times and in its lengthy Q &#38; A session with Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser, that company’s planned expansion of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Another Interesting Tar Sands P.S.</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/22/and-another-interesting-tar-sands-p-s/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/22/and-another-interesting-tar-sands-p-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was also reported in today’s Energy Bulletin (see the link in my Blogroll), Canada’s new Energy Minister has indicated a shift in his country’s previous policy advocating essentially unlimited growth in the tar sands projects.
Ron Liepert has stated that Canada
needs to examine ways to moderate the pace of oil sands development … [and he] [...]]]></description>
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