In his paper, Hubbert estimated that the “ultimate potential reserve of 150 billion barrels of crude oil for both the land and offshore areas of the United States.” Hubbert’s estimate was based on the crude oil “initially present which are producible by methods now in use.” Using the 150 billion barrel estimate he predicted US Peak Oil occurring in 1965. But to be cautious, he also used a slightly higher figure of 200 billion barrels which produced a peak in oil production around 1970—the figure that Hubbert advocates like to use to demonstrate that Hubbert was prophetic in his predictions. However, by 2006 the Department of Energy estimated that domestic oil resources still in the ground (in-place) total 1,124 billion barrels. Of this large in-place resource, 400 billon barrels is estimated to be technically recoverable with current technology. ...
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Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2012-03-30 03:45
Israel using the Gaza Strip as an experimental theatre of war to test its anti-missile shield and other military capabilities
Submitted by Aletho News on Thu, 2012-03-22 17:54
"US v Reynolds has come to be a landmark case that is used by the government when it claims that documents cannot be turned over to the courts because of national security. Yet this very case is now proven, in my mind, to be based on a lie that did injury to 3 widows and 5 little children"
Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2012-03-09 01:33
Boycott From Within has posted a letter to jazz musician McCoy Tyner, encouraging him to respect the Palestinian call for boycott and cancel his upcoming gig in Petach Tikva on 10 March.
Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2012-02-24 18:03
... The paramilitaries who displaced the community, the palm-oil cultivators Daabon and Aportes San Isidro responsible for the environmental degradation and continued occupation of the land are not the subjects of judicial investigations. It is the dispossessed and displaced campesinos who are under investigation...
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2012-02-14 21:54
Maidhc O'Cathail question whether Anti-war.com is the best place to look for anti-war news and analysis.
Submitted by Aletho News on Sat, 2012-01-21 01:34
Connections between the US and UK National Security apparatus and the appearance of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory beginning after the accident at Three Mile Island.
Submitted by Aletho News on Wed, 2012-01-11 05:18
Wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar to another bio-fuel maker... owned by Vinod Khosla, the entrepreneur who also secured the government loans to the original bankrupt firm.
Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2012-01-06 01:59
Dollar for dollar, military products are there as insurance and to the extent you could put those dollars into other areas, maybe education and job training, maybe into transportation, that is going to have a good economic effect.
Submitted by Aletho News on Thu, 2011-12-15 21:55
As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate...
Submitted by Aletho News on Sat, 2011-12-03 23:18
“I was sleeping in my house and I heard people shouting in the street. I went out and saw a settler point his M-16 [machine gun] at my son.”
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-11-28 19:39
A guide for useful Hasbara idiots
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-11-28 02:51
Then-Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson was, after all, chairman of the Nature Conservancy...
Submitted by Aletho News on Thu, 2011-11-24 02:01
Early today FOIA.org released a zip file of 5,000 additional emails similar to those released two years ago in November 2009 and coined Climategate...
Submitted by Aletho News on Wed, 2011-11-23 06:17
Biofuel Death Squads
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2011-11-22 19:16
THE LAWS OF [JINSA] KINGS
The obligation to destroy the seven nations living in the Land of Canaan
The prohibition against allowing any one of them to remain alive
The obligation to destroy the descendents of Amalek
The obligation to remember what Amalek did
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2011-11-22 18:51
The State Department which promotes and sponsors Dean Obeidallah as a comedian is now also promoting a Palestinian-American rapper and radio show host...
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2011-11-22 16:38
... Exactly how the United States benefits from making Israel’s enemies its own is not clear...
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-11-07 00:48
Obama For America and Obama Victory Fund 2012 Volunteer Fundraisers
Submitted by Aletho News on Wed, 2011-11-02 04:46
"... you will escalate. You don’t want to run away from that word, you want to run towards it ..."
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-10-31 17:47
Yet another glimpse into the massive Jewish ethnic infrastructure, the infrastructure that undergirds the power of the Israel Lobby.
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-10-24 20:05
The official site of the so-called "Syrian Revolution" offer sincere condolences for the death of Prince Sultan. This site represents the Ikhwan-liberal leadership of the so-called revolution. Read the comments in praise of Sultan.
Submitted by Aletho News on Sat, 2011-10-22 17:46
Science says so.
Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2011-10-21 19:03
By failing to expose the source of the Iraq war deception, the Iranian leader is providing cover for those now seeking to induce America to go to war with Iran.
Submitted by Aletho News on Wed, 2011-10-19 16:17
Quote of the Week
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2011-10-18 14:35
Al Gore purchased a $9 million mansion in the luxurious hills of Montecito, California, recently, and with the exception of the Los Angeles Times and Fox News, America’s media couldn’t care less.
Submitted by Aletho News on Tue, 2011-10-04 15:12
The cold period in the Arctic lasted more than 30 days longer in 2011 than in any previously studied Arctic winter
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-10-03 16:20
West coast dock workers push back
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-09-12 23:49
Chosen technology got half a billion dollars of taxpayer money but could not be scaled up economically.
Campaign contributor takes the taxpayer money and then shuts down plant.
This occurring as global demand for solar panels is in full collapse. Index falls 5% on Friday.
Submitted by Aletho News on Mon, 2011-09-05 00:15
War for oil or class war?
Economics professor ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH:
"While oil is undoubtedly a concern, it falls short of a satisfactory explanation because major Western oil companies were already extensively involved in the Libyan oil industry. Indeed ... Western countries, major US and European oil companies struck quite lucrative deals with the National Oil Corporation of Libya."
