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The Background is Oil
By
Dale Allen Pfeiffer
The past year has seen events unprecedented in the history of
this country, from the installment of George W. Bush as president due to an
extremely controversial 5 to 4 decision of the Supreme Court to the horrific
terrorist attacks of 9-11. These events seem unreal and beyond comprehension.
Many people have been left wondering why the presidential coup and why the
terrorist attacks.
Many people have assumed that the last presidential election simply resulted in
a political squabble due to the close vote. A few have opined that this squabble
resulted in a power grab by one segment of the elite in this country. As for the
events of 9-11, the established line is that this was due to evil people who
hate freedom and democracy. However, many people have sought to explain that
these terrorists were bred by decades of imperialist intervention undertaken by
this country in order to keep secure the privileged position of US corporations
and the US public in general. There are a small few who have wondered whether
the events of 9-11 were the work of Islamic terrorists at all, just as there are
a few who believe that the Bush regime staged a coup in every sense of the word.
The wisest and best informed say all of this is about oil.
To understand the events of the past year, it is first necessary to set the
scene. And the scene in which all of these events have played out is the
approaching end of the oil age. This background has not been talked about in the
mass media, or even in the alternative media. However, this knowledge is
essential in order to understand not only what has transpired in the past year,
but also the events to come. And we need this knowledge in order to consider
what actions we should take to assure a positive future for all.
Oil Dependency
The civilization we live in today is based entirely on hydrocarbons (by which
term I mean both oil and natural gas).
- The energy which runs our technology is derived from hydrocarbons.
- The energy which does our work is derived from hydrocarbons.
- The energy which powers our homes, our transportation and which generates
our electricity is all largely derived from hydrocarbons.
- All of the plastics which surround us with consumer goods are derived from
hydrocarbons.
- Our produce is fed with hydrocarbon-based fertilizers and sprayed with
hydrocarbon-based pesticides.
- Every person in the US has the energy equivalent of a dozen slaves working
for him or her.
Why this dependency on oil?
- Simply put, there is no other energy source which
holds as much energy per unit.
- The only exception to this is uranium, (1)
which is
dangerous, difficult to work with, and far too rare an element to ever provide
for more than a small percentage of our energy needs.
- Even the highest grade of coal only holds about 50% as much energy as an
equivalent quantity of hydrocarbons.(2)
- Renewable energy resources can provide nowhere near enough energy to meet our
current needs.(3)
- Fusion remains, as ever, just beyond our grasp.
- The highly touted hydrogen fuel
cells are not an energy source but a form of energy storage; the energy
contained in the fuel
cell must be generated from another source.(4)
In short, there is no other source which can provide for the energy needs of our
present
civilization.
Nonrenewable Resources
Hydrocarbons are considered a nonrenewable resource. Many millions of years ago,
atmospheric
carbon was absorbed by ocean waters and ultimately processed into living matter.
Millions
of years ago the oceans abounded in microorganisms. Life forms similar to
plankton were far more abundant than they are even at the present time. As these
organisms died their bodies settled on the ocean floor, forming an organic ooze.
It is interesting to note that the planet was incapable of supporting
terrestrial life until much of the carbon had been leeched from the
atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon is a poison which had to be locked into sediment
by ocean life before land-dwelling life forms could evolve.
Once this organic ooze was deposited, it had to be buried in sediment and
subjected to just the
right combination of conditions in order to transform it into energy rich
hydrocarbons. The
combination of pressure, heat and time is very precise. Too much pressure will
transform the
carbon to graphite. Too much heat will overcook it.
Finally, once the ooze has been transformed into hydrocarbons, they will migrate
through the
Earth's crust until captured by the trap. A trap is a non-permeable geological
formation
which holds the hydrocarbons and prevents them from escaping. Without a trap,
the hydrocarbons
will migrate to the Earth's surface and dissipate into the atmosphere.
All of the conditions for hydrocarbon generation have only been met once in the
history of the
Earth. It is arguable that the process of transforming atmospheric carbon into
hydrocarbon
deposits itself altered atmospheric, oceanic and earth chemistry 'as well as the
biosphere' in such
a way that the process will never be repeated, it would take millions of years
for hydrocarbon
deposits to be replenished.
And so hydrocarbons are a nonrenewable resource which we are using up at an
alarming rate.
Production & Demand
The production of oil from any given field follows a bell curve. After discovery
of the field, production increases as more and more wells are opened. A team of
exploration geologists and engineers will quickly map out the field and develop
a pattern of well placement so as to maximize production. Each well has a cone
of production which, when well placed, will cover the entire field. If placed
too closely, the cones of production will overlap and the overlapping wells will
each wind up producing less. So, to increase production by drilling more wells
only works until the field is covered, beyond which point adding more wells only
leads to diminishing returns.
Because of this, there is a point where the production of any particular field
is maximized.
This is the peak of the production curve. The peak can be narrow or broad 'short
or long in
duration' but production will never be increased beyond this point.
In the earth, oil moves at a very slow rate. The classic gusher effect is due to
the fact that oil
at depth is held under pressure. When a hole is drilled, the oil in the area
immediately around
the hole is ejected by this pressure. Once this oil has been pumped, the well
must draw oil from
farther away. Under its own impetus, oil travels at a very slow rate 'the same
rate as damp
spreading through a stone foundation'. Once a well has pumped all of the oil in
its immediate
vicinity, the rate of production must drop. We have techniques for boosting the
draw of a well,
such as pumping in water under pressure at other sites to drive oil to the well.
But production
will inevitably decrease.
This is the downward side of the production curve. On this downward slope more
and more
energy is required to pump oil from a field, until a point is reached where it
takes as much
or more energy to pump the oil than can be extracted from the oil. At this point
the wells
are closed and the field ceases production forever.
This is the trend for every oil field ever discovered: increasing production,
peak production, and declining production. Even fields as immense as those in
Saudi Arabia follow this pattern.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Dr. King Hubbert managed to combine production from
several different
wells to develop production profiles for regions, nations, and even the entire
planet. These
regional oil production plots also have the form of a bell curve known now as
the Hubbert curve.
Such curves can be used to predict peak production and decline, both nationally
and globally. Using this technique, Dr. Hubbert was able to surmise that US oil
production would peak
in the early 1970s and then fall into decline.
Dr. Hubbert was ridiculed by other scientists who relied on differing, erroneous
methodologies. (5)
US oil production did peak in the early 1970s. To meet its rising energy needs
after this point the
US became increasingly dependent on foreign oil.
This paved the way for the Arab oil embargo. By the end of the decade, US oil
production had
begun to decrease irreversibly. Whatever anyone tries to say to the contrary,
our dependence on
foreign oil is permanent and increasing all the time. Dr. Hubbert was
vindicated, and his is now
the standard methodology for projecting oil production.
Global production curves have also been in existence since the 1960s. They have
been refined
as data on oil resources is revised; yet the timing and length of the peak have
varied little
through the years. Global oil production peaked sometime in this past year and
will begin to
decline within another five years. Production will peak at a maximum of 90
million barrels per
day; however, demand stands at 75 million barrels per day currently and will
rise by 2.5 % per year
to 100 million barrels per day by 2010. (6) This is the composite global
picture. To better understand what is happening, we have to compare various oil
producing regions. In doing this we see that, except for the Middle East and the
Caspian Sea Basin, the rest of the world has already peaked, and most oil
producing regions
are now in decline. The Middle East and Caspian Sea regions are not expected to
peak for at least
several years to come. With the passage of time, all countries will vie with
each other for the
oil of these regions, vying for the survival of their civilization. And whoever
controls the oil
production of the Middle East and Caspian Sea regions will control the world. (7)
More could be said about natural gas, which is also expected to decline in
production in the
next decade. (8),(9) Likewise, the coal resources within the US will be exhausted in
another fifty
years at most. (10) And coal alone will never meet our current 'much less
projected' energy demand.
Nor can salvation be expected from the Athabaskan oil sands, which require a
major energy
investment to harvest and process.(11)
Against this Backdrop
Now that we have this background in place, let's reflect on the events of the
past year. The 2000 presidential election has been referred to as a coup, and there is good
reason for this.
Never mind the widespread corruption and voter fraud. Never mind the
disenfranchisement of black voters and the outright destruction of untallied
ballots in minority voting precincts. Never mind the manipulations of James
Baker, Governor Jeb Bush and various other Florida officials. The Supreme Court
decision was itself unheard of, and probably unconstitutional. The
self-described job of the Supreme Court is to decide questions of constitutional
law and set precedents. Yet in this one case and no other in the history of the
US the Supreme Court stated that it was rendering a special decision which
cannot be used as a precedent in any other case.(12)
So we have a president put into office by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court, in
direct opposition
to the popular vote.
What about the background of this president and his cabinet?
- The Bush cabinet is a virtual who's who of oil, defense and pharmaceutical
bigwigs.(13)
- The Bush family is itself closely tied financially to the bin
Ladens.(14), (15)
- Both families are involved in the Carlyle Group.(16)
- Bush Sr. sits on the board of Carlyle, a 12 billion Equity company with oil
holdings and defense contracts.(17)
- Dick Cheney was the former CEO of Halliburton Oil.
- Colin Powell is a major stockholder in several defense contractors.
- Andrew Card, the Chief of Staff is from General Motors.
- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals.
- Dick Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has ties to the Russian mafia
and is a board member of Carlyle.
- Robert Jordan, the Saudi ambassador, was a member of Baker Botts, a legal
firm specializing in oil and defense (the Baker in Baker Botts is James Baker).
- Tony Principi, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, comes from Lockheed Martin.
- Gordan England, Secretary of the Navy, is tied to General Dynamics.
- James Roche, Secretary of the Air Force, is from Northrup
Grummond.
- Gen. Thomas White, retired, Secretary of the Army, is from Enron Energy.
- Donald Evans, the Commerce Secretary, owns Colorado Oil Company.
- National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sat on the board of Chevron.
- And Mr. Carlucci, the Chief of Carlyle, sits on the Middle East Policy
Council. (18)
One of the first acts of the Bush administration was to declare an energy
crisis and delineate a
controversial set of measures for solving this problem. On the surface, the Bush
energy package
called for increased domestic production. This is the favored solution of
certain mainstream,
free-market economists, who believe that increased production is the answer to
current energy woes while research and development of new technology will take
care of the future. Most
mainstream economists refuse to realize that hydrocarbons are the underpinning
of our
technological civilization, instead of just another commodity. And, of course,
increasing
production has great appeal to business people whose prime concern is maximizing
short-term profit.
Under the surface, however, the Bush energy package is a give away for the oil
industry, and
a strengthening of US commitment to support corporate oil interests. The energy
package
sought to give away drilling rights in ANWAR and other remaining wilderness
areas, open up our
continental shelves to full exploitation, role back environmental and health
regulations, and
subsidize the oil industry with major tax breaks.
One controversial measure which received very little attention was an item
allowing energy
corporations to extract resources from public land without paying for the right
to do so. The
Bush energy plan was a give away for energy corporations. It met with stiff
opposition in
congress and certain prized measures 'such as drilling in ANWAR' were defeated.
Related to the
energy package was President Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Treaty on global
warming, which
action was reviled around the world.
In his first months in office, Bush managed to alienate almost every country on
the planet in
one arrogant move after another. When asked what he would do should Canada seek
to limit natural gas flow to the United States, Bush said he would do whatever
was necessary to protect our right to Canada's natural gas. Likewise, at home,
he was highly reviled by many US citizens. There was even some talk of
impeachment. All of this changed after 9-11, and it is to be wondered how the
Bush administration would have survived without the terrorist attacks.
911
It is now early summer of 2001, and the Bush administration informs Pakistan and
India that it
will launch a military mission against Afghanistan before the end of October.(19), (20) This
is the same Afghanistan to which the US gave 43 million dollars just a couple
months before to
aid them in destroying their poppy crops; that on top of 132 million given to
the Taliban in the
previous year.(21) (22) At the time Secretary of State Colin Powell informs Pakistan
and India of
US intentions there is no animosity between the US government and the Taliban,
despite the fact
that the Taliban is openly harboring wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden.
In July, while seeking treatment for a kidney infection at an American hospital
in Dubai, Osama
bin Laden is visited by a CIA operative who later brags about the meeting.(23)
Shortly after this
meeting came to light in late October, the CIA issued a statement insisting that
it has never
had contact with Osama bin Laden. Yet it is very well known that the CIA
originally trained and
supported bin Laden during the Taliban's fight against Soviet invasion.(24), (25), (26)
After 9-11 there has been a great deal of investigation to see who profited from
the attack
on the World Trade Center. Investigators have turned up a list of financial
institutions in the
US which profited from short-selling and put options on the WTC, airline
companies and the
companies housed in the WTC. Short selling and put options indicate prior
knowledge that an
asset is about to lose its value. The list of short sellers includes A.B. Brown,
an investment
bank. "Buzzy" Krongard, the current Executive Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency is
the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B Brown.(27) (28)
In the months prior to the terrorist attacks, there were many warning passed
around various
levels of the government and elsewhere. David Schippers the Republican lawyer
who pressed
impeachment against President Clinton, claims he spent months before 9/11 trying
to get
information to Attorney General Ashcroft from FBI agents who claim they were
told not to
investigate leads that suggested a terrorist attack on Manhattan was imminent.(29)
The New York
Daily News stated that some Middle-Easterners in New York were forewarned of the
attacks.(30) Bin
Laden had warned a few months previously that he and his followers would
undertake an
unprecedented attack on US interests.(31) Finally, on Friday, Sept 7, the State
Dept issued a
worldwide terrorist alert to Americans abroad.(32) It is hard to believe that no
one in the US
intelligence community had knowledge of the pending attacks.
Between 7:45 and 8:10 EST, the morning of September 11th, four US passenger jets
were
hijacked simultaneously. This was an event unprecedented in US history and
should have set
off all sorts of alarms by itself. Nothing was done. The FAA had all four planes
on radar the
whole time. 35 minutes later, American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the World
Trade Center.
The air force was not scrambled. President Bush was not even informed. After
another 18 minutes,
United Airlines flight 175 struck the second tower of the WTC. Bush is briefly
informed of
these events as he attends a 2nd grade class in Florida. Instead of taking
emergency actions,
Bush continues with his lessons. Another excruciating 37 minutes pass during
which nothing
is done. Radar tracks American Airlines flight 77 as it flies by Washington
D.C., makes a tight
spiraling descent' descending 7,000 feet in 2.5 minutes, and levels off to fly
straight into the
Pentagon at 640 knots, clipping power lines along the way.
Some time later, United Airlines flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania. Witnesses
report debris
falling from the plane many miles before it hit ground. There has been a lot of
speculation about
the intended target of this 4th plane. Some say the target was Camp David, some
the White House.
It has also been speculated that this craft sought an in air collision with Air
Force One. We
will probably never know its intended target.
However, it is interesting to consider if the target of flight 93 had actually
been the Capitol
Building. Had this jet struck congress, President Bush might have temporarily
assumed the powers of congress.
Subsequent Events
After 9-11, President Bush?s approval rating rose to 80%. A wave of patriotic
hysteria has washed
over the entire country, giving Bush the mandate he so desperately desired.
Instead of seeking out
the perpetrators and bringing them to justice through legal channels, Bush
declared war on all
terrorists and on any country which harbors or supports terrorists. This is to
be a very long
and open-ended war, without specific goals against which its success and
eventual resolution
can be measured. Operation 'Infinite Justice' as it was originally called. The
US public must
prepare themselves to suffer and sacrifice while the war itself will be fought
largely in secret.
President Bush quickly established a new cabinet level Office of Homeland
Security, to be headed
by former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. This office is to stand over and
coordinate among all existing domestic police on national, state and local
levels. And it is to be given its own
special security forces with practically unlimited powers. Among their duties
will be
monitoring interstate travel at checkpoints and policing protests. Security
forces will reserve
the right to kill anyone who resists them. Bush and Ridge are pushing for
national ID cards, and
it is rumored that checkpoints will be equipped with face recognition
technology.(33)
In congress, unpopular legislation which had previously limped along was rammed
through with
patriotic fervor. Lobbyists lined up in a feeding frenzy. Where only a month
before budget
surpluses had dried up and congress people were arguing for defense cuts, now
practically the
entire budget was given over to defense spending. And finally, congress passed a
new anti-terrorism act which granted police and the military vast new powers,
ended habeas corpus and the posse comitatus act, and severely hamstrung the Bill
of Rights.(34), (35)
All the while, the public is being kept in a state of alert with threats of
anthrax exposure and other vague terrorist alarms. The anthrax attacks are themselves extremely peculiar. The Bush administration wants to point the blame
at Iraq, while the FBI and other investigators believe them to be the work of
homegrown 'probably rightwing' terrorists. Yet all the leads seem to evaporate
into thin air. The main targets, media and Democratic Senator Tom Dashle, make
little sense if the perpetrators are Islamic extremists. Those who would benefit
the most from these attacks are President Bush and his administration, as the
attacks only serve to scare the media and his political opposition further into
his protective arms. Finally there is the ineffective nature of the attacks; for
the most part, the exposures are easily treated with antibiotics. It would be
easier and more effective to use letter bombs. That is, unless your goal was to instill fear in
the media, the
political opposition and the general public without massive casualties.
Lastly, the assault on Afghanistan began just as planned. And the US now has the
excuse to attack
any other nation it pleases. All that is required is to first label them as
terrorists.
Oil, again
Just what was the planned purpose of the assault on Afghanistan? You could say
it was a pipe
dream. US oil interests have their eye on large untapped hydrocarbon resources
in the Caspian Sea
region. Just as the Bosnian conflict was part of an effort to secure the Balkan
states for an oil
and gas pipeline to the European energy market, so the US is seeking secure
passage for a
pipeline through Afghanistan to feed the Asian energy markets and the US itself.(36), (37)
Beyond this, the 'War on Terrorism' gives the US a perfect excuse to seize
control of major oil
deposits in other countries such as Iran and Colombia. Likewise, it legitimates
a police state
within the US so that the elite can prepare for the day when the common people
of this country
are impoverished and starving due to the collapse of oil-based civilization. The
Elite will
maintain their own comfort and their average of twelve energy slaves per person.
Here then, is the scenario. Wary of the peak and approaching decline of
hydrocarbon production,
the oil and defense elite in this country back a political coup to put their
people in the White
House. However, this oil administration can do very little toward achieving
their ends because
of unpopularity at home and abroad. In growing desperation, this regime provokes
and permits 'if
not outright planning the enterprise on its own' a massive terrorist attack
against the US homeland,
striking at the very symbols of globalization and US imperialist military might.
Perhaps failing in
an attempt to attack congress which would then give the president the opportunity to 'temporarily' suspend the constitution and assume sole power.
This terrorist act negates all opposition to the regime and gives them the
authority to do whatever they wish internationally and domestically to protect
the interests and the positions of the oil elite.
This scenario may seem farfetched but no other theory can explain as adequately
all the events
of the past year, given the facts that are known and the background of the
approaching end of the
oil age.
Even if you don't believe the events of the past year were intentional, that
does not change the picture of the future before us. We stand at the dusk of
oil-based civilization, and the US is preparing for the approaching night by
extending its military might throughout the world and instituting a police state
at home.
Ending on a Positive Note
Global oil is peaking; in five years we will no longer be able to produce enough
oil to meet the needs of our oil civilization. The oil elite wants to grab the
remaining supplies and dictate their use. Likewise, the people of this country
'who will soon be faced by starvation and extreme impoverishment' can be held in
check through the establishment of a police state.
All the while, people are being diverted from seeing that we have just enough
energy resources left that we could build a true ecotopian democracy where all
of us could lead freer, healthier, more fulfilling lives. We need bottom up
democracy. We need small-scale economies, and small-scale technologies powered
by renewable energy. We need smaller communities, structured to be
self-sufficient, all tied together by high speed monorails. We need gardens and
parks in our cities instead of cars. We need social halls, not shopping malls.
And we have enough energy remaining to do this, if we act now.
The oil elites, however, want to use our remaining energy resources to establish
a security state where they can enjoy the remaining riches while the rest of us
suffer, starve and slave for them.
Yet they are not the ones pulling the triggers and enforcing the rules. We are.
And that's what they fear most. So tell me, what do you think we should let
happen now?
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x 10e24 sej
(increasing about 2% per year ever since). From page 187 we find that total
net solar radiation
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the USA is presently using fossil fuels more than 100 times greater than the
total absorption of solar radiation across the entire USA!
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