Congressman Bartlett R-MD, made the
following statement on the House Floor 12/7/05.
A December 1, 2005 CRS report
(prepared at my request) documents and ranks countries that experienced
declines in oil production between 2003 and 2004. Despite the increase in
oil prices, United Kingdom oil production declined 228 thousand barrels.
United States oil production declined 159 thousand barrels. Australia
declined 83 thousand barrels. Norway declined 76 thousand barrels. Indonesia
declined 57 thousand barrels. Argentina declined 50 thousand barrels. Other
countries with production declines included: Egypt, Oman, Syria, Yemen
Brazil, Columbia and Italy.
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Mr. Bartlett has made several
speeches on Peak Oil.
Click Here Feb 8
Speech. Very important look at the issues and supports Energy
Conservation.
Click here for March 05 speech,
Click here for April 05
speech.
Mr. Bartlett's Website is
http://www.bartlett.house.gov/
Letter to
Congress by Congressman Bartlett on NY Times Article
Congressman Tom Udall's D-N.M.
senior member of the House Resources Committee. February 18, 2006
comments on Peak Oil published on the web and several publications. "Our
future prosperity now depends on a rapid increase in energy conservation".
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Below is startling graph from Mr Udall's website
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for Mr. Udall's speech to Congress
Congressman Sherwood Boehlert,
Chairman, Committee on Science
Speech before the U.S. House of
Representatives discussing the urgency of the U.S. government responding to
the threats to the U.S. economy and national security posed by global
peak oil.
"…we have 25 percent of the world's energy consumption but we have only 5
percent of the population and only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves,
yet we are consuming 25 percent of the world's energy output. Now, something
is wrong there…we are on a collision course with disaster and we have to do
something very meaningful about it. We are consuming 21 million barrels of
oil a day in the United States. 21 million. We import 14 million barrels of
oil a day. So we are starting every single day with a couple of problems on
our hands. Number one, if we are importing 14 million barrels of oil a day
and oil is costing $60, $65 a barrel, that means we start each and every day
somewhere in the neighborhood of $750 million, three-quarters of a billion
dollars in the hole, in the red in our balance of trade deficit… the saddest
part…some of that money that we send abroad to purchase this oil…ends up in
the hands of people who are trying to undermine everything that is so dear
to us that we cherish… So, in effect, you could make an argument that we are
helping to sponsor terrorism...we are also doing something that is mind
boggling to me. We are concentrating all of our efforts not on how we can
conserve energy, but how we can consume more and find new sources of energy.
Now, that is important. We have got to constantly be searching for new
sources of energy but we ought to think in terms of how we can conserve
energy, and making our vehicles more fuel efficient is a way to do it."
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