http://www.metafilter.com/tags/HubbertCurveTheory Posts tagged with 'HubbertCurveTheory' at MetaFilter. Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:24:26 -0800 Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:24:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/33549/Pragmatism%2Dvs%2DIdeology <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3777413.stm">"End of Oil" rebuts Reagan hagiography ?</a> Amidst the din that is the lengthy US media coverage on Ronald Reagan's demise, the BBC reports on the growing acceptance (with oil industry attendance at a recent <a href="http://www.peakoil.net/">ASPO</a> conference in Berlin) of the Hubbert Curve Theory which predicts we are now close to or at the peak of World Oil production. (also see Metafilter,<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/20915">October 2002</a>). <br><br>Now, the wayback machine : the year is 1980 and the new President, Ronald Reagan, has ordered a solar hot water system, installed by President Carter, torn off the White House roof. Reagan will preceed to gut federal alternative energy subsidies and federal R&amp;D spending on alternative energy technologies to, instead, spend many billions subsidizing oil, coal, and gas production.... <a href="http://www.medialine.com/medialineUBB/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=027585;p=">Over the next 23 years, the US lost it's role as the World leader in efficiency and alternative energy technologies.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33549 Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:24:26 -0800 AlternativeEnergy BBC HubbertCurveTheory PeakOil RonaldRegan troutfishing