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Originally Posted by seashore
Here is an article by F. William Engdahl entitled "Confessions Of An 'Ex' Peak Oil Believer" that challenges the theory of "fossil fuels" and "Peak Oil." |
From the article:
...The Peak Oil school rests its theory on conventional Western geology textbooks, most by American or British geologists...
...An entirely alternative theory of oil formation has existed since the early 1950's in Russia, almost unknown to the West...
...His team dismissed the idea that oil is was biological residue of plant and animal fossil remains as a hoax designed to perpetuate the myth of limited supply...
...That Russian geophysics experience in finding oil and gas was tightly wrapped in the usual Soviet veil of state security during the Cold War era, and went largely unknown to Western geophysicists, who continued to teach fossil origins and, hence, the severe physical limits of petroleum. Slowly it begin to dawn on some strategists in and around the Pentagon well after the 2003 Iraq war, that the Russian geophysicists might be on to something of profound strategic importance...
...Peak Oil theory is based on a 1956 paper done by the late Marion King Hubbert, a Texas geologist working for Shell Oil...
...Since 2003 Russian scientific sharing of their knowledge has markedly lessened. Offers in the early 1990's to share their knowledge with US and other oil geophysicists were met with cold rejection according to American geophysicists involved...
...Perhaps in some decades Western geologists will rethink their mythology of fossil origins and realize what the Russians have known since the 1950's. In the meantime Moscow holds a massive energy trump card.
William Engdahl is the author of
A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto Press Ltd..
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net