The US military takes an increasing interest in peak oil, theguardian/environment/earth-insight/2014/jan/17/peak-oil-oilandgascompanies, in another well-written article by Nafeez Ahmed: A lot of high-ranking officials are starting to ask exactly these hard questions about the sustainability of the current energy system. Youve got to remember that for the military, it doesnt matter what you want to do. What matters is what you can do, and its our top priority to make sure we understand potential limits to our operational capability. Even the EIA is forecasting that we could see a peak of shale production by 2018 followed by a plateau and decline, and the Pentagon knows this. But our transport infrastructure is totally dependent on liquid fuels. How are we going to sustain that infrastructure with these decline rates? Thats why serious questions are being asked by high level US military officials as to what exactly the Army, as well as American society in general, is going to do to address this challenge.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:33:27 +0000
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