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2008/6/17-20 [Science/Disaster, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50281 Activity:nil
6/17    World's wealthiest Oil Man endorses Peak Oil concept:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/68tf3f (Yahoo News)
        \_ Peak oil is guaranteed when you stop drilling.  Ever increasing
           energy prices are guaranteed when you stop building power plants.
           Econ 1.
           \_ We have more oil wells in the United States than the rest of the
              world, combined.  Drilling quadrupled after the 70s oil shocks
              yet oil production continued to slide.  Peak oil is a result
              of geology, not politics or economics.
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Reuters World crude production has peaked: Pickens By Jasmin Melvin and Missy Ryan Tue Jun 17, 1:11 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World crude oil production has topped out at 85 million barrels per day even as demand keeps climbing, helping to drive a stunning surge in prices, billionaire oil investor T Boone Pickens said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT "I do believe you have peaked out at 85 million barrels a day globally," Pickens, who heads BP Capital hedge fund with more than $4 billion under management, said during testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. US crude futures have risen by a third since the start of the year and more than six-fold since 2002 as surging demand from China and other developing nations outpaces new production. Oil slipped on Tuesday, a day after touching a record high near $140 a barrel, but remained above $133 a barrel. Pickens, who announced a $2 billion investment in wind energy earlier this year, told lawmakers during a hearing on renewable electricity that he expected "the price of oil will go up further." Without alternatives, the cost of foreign oil will drain the United States of more resources, he said. "In 10 years, we will have exported close to $10 trillion out of the country if we continue on the same basis we're going now. It is the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind," he said. Pickens downplayed the role that speculative trading and institutional investors -- forces some see behind the high oil prices -- have had in the price trend. Asked about the role of institutional investors, Pickens told reporters he does not "agree that that has anything to do with oil prices ... It doesn't have anything to do with traders on Wall Street or any place else." He said increased oversight of oil markets by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) represents "a waste of time." On Monday, the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, released new CFTC information he said made the case for greater federal regulation in crude oil markets. Bingaman and others have introduced a spate of proposals to boost CFTC authority over trading of certain oil contracts. HQA/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1213751756/L=fU4wY9G_Rt 383xETQI4VvxMIRTfow0hYRawADEy1/B=9QHCE9G_fyA-/J=1213744556827484/A=492 4412/R=0/* Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo! Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.