Dette er stort. Jeg ønsker å formidle denne nyheten i episke ordelag, men hjernen klarer ikke å formulere noe spesielt bra. Så jeg sier det bare som det er – OPEC sier at Peak Oil er like om hjørnet.
LATOC betegner nyhetens opphav som "from the horse’s mouth". Og det er det. For hva er OPEC? Les denne wikipedia-artikkelen, så vil du forstå:
"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an international organization made up of Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela (Angola was added in 2006). Since 1965 its international headquarters have been in Vienna, Austria. It is considered to be a cartel by many observers
The principal aim of the Organization, according to its Statute, is the determination of the best means for safeguarding their interests, individually and collectively…"
Så hva er det disse har sagt, og i hvilke ordelag?
Long story short – OPEC har et nyhetsmagasin. I siste utgave av dette er Peak Oil omtalt av Dr Shokri Ghanem, Chairman of the People’s Committee, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya på denne måten:
"while some of the more pessimistic oil specialists are declaring that peak oil has already been passed, or at best is here now, others believe it is not going to arrive before 2010. Some optimists give the world a little more breathing space — that is to say up to 2020, and perhaps even up to 2030. However, all in all, most would appear to agree that peak oil output is not very far away for all of us. It could take place sometime within the next decade or so, which in fact means that there is not much time left for a world economy to be driven largely by oil."
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Hvor stor vekt har det at denne personen sier dette i dette magasinet?
Stor, vil jeg tro. Det faktum alene, at Peak Oil omtales i et nyhetsmagasin av og for OPEC-landene, er monumentalt. Omtalen innebærer at Peak Oil er på deres agenda. Denne Dr Shokri Ghanem kjenner jeg ikke til, men av det jeg har lest later han til å være Libyas svar på våre egne Reiten og Lund.
Takk til Goldmanpeak! Som han sier i kommentar #11 her: "Da kan vi vel si at skeptikerne har et forklaringsproblem??