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Al Gore: we're at or near peak oil
Submitted by Jeremy on June 14, 2006 - 9:26am.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/13/lkl.01.html
KING: Gas prices -- we've only got a minute left.
GORE: Yes.
KING: Gas prices going to go down?
GORE: Well, I've seen a number of -- over the last several decades I've seen this happen several times, where they spike and then they do come back down.
But each time they go to a higher plateau. We almost certainly are at or near what they call peak oil, defined as having recovered a majority of the oil reserves at a certain price, affordability range. And so with the new pressure on the consumption side from China and India, if they come back down, they won't stay down long.
we got the wrong one
Dang, why couldn't Gore be our president?!! I just saw An Inconvenient Truth last night (the movie on his global warming slide show) and the guy keeps his finger on the pulse of these issues! I recommend everyone to go see it, even though the picture it paints is not pretty. He's not afraid to tell it like it is, and offers ways that all of us can help reduce our personal contributions to global warming (which are all good ideas in preparing for peak oil, as well).
But where was he six years ago?
While I'd certainly prefer Gore to our current president you should remember that when he was a candidate the environment was, at least in part by his choice, a complete non-issue. He never said much of anything about global warming and that was AFTER he wrote Earth in the Balance.
--David
Maybe...
Do you think that was a strategic move so the other side couldn't brand him as an extremist and/or alarmist and use it as a weapon against him? It's all academic now, and since it doesn't make a difference at this point anyway I like to think that if he had won, he could have pulled out that agenda and run with it. : )
But where was he six years ago?
That's odd - I remember him saying quite a bit about the environment and climate change... Perhaps my memory is getting jumbled...