Greg Palast: We're Not Running Out of Oil, Just Cheap Oil

In this eighth video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, investigative journalist and author Greg Palast says the era of cheap fuel is over. Now energy companies are scouring the globe for oil, often being forced to work in more dangerous and expensive conditions.

Visit www.thenation.com to learn more about "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," and to see the other videos in the series.

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• Climate Change
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[poohORpoe]

I'm a Palast fan, but comparing "body" counts ..........

[shogun1949]

Yeah, this guy for planetary President. This type of honesty is such a joy to find. I am thinking the very important factor in deciding if something said is biased is to check the source and motive.

If it is a politician then I am not sure there is a way to believe one way or another.

We really must control the money in politics.

[Kevin1354]

@ChopShop1200 Nooooo, we were shot in the foot by STUPID PEOPLE that elected a bunch of traitorous t[tard] baggers. They have OBSTRUCTED every single effort of the good guys, the Democrats, repair the damage down by 30 years of reyagunomic economic terrorism.

Look for PROOF no farther than the senate and its RECORD BREAKING ABUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER.

[ChopShop1200]

Obahma was put up there to be chosen. movers and shakers knew people were fed up and created a product called change. we all know how that ended. no change at all. so we've been all suckered once more. and the movers were 1 step ahead. and btw they payed to get obama up there. so mainstreet didnt sucker the big money with his voice. Its the other way around.

same goed for the environmental movement. etcetera.

[flyattic]

@agnoses If all these things are easy to do why don't you start a business doing them all and make a mint? it seems in your opinion the EROEI would be so huge on these alternate energy technologies that you could become a millionaire. So why aren't you or anybody else doing it? its because you don't believe what your saying and because the EROEI on all current renewable tech is pitiful compared to oil seeping out of the ground. If there was a cheaper energy source we would use it . end of story

[agnoses]

"THEY" can't keep anyone from using alternate energy. JUST DI IT. Bio-diesel is easy to make. THIN FILM SOLAR panels and WIND TURBINES are easy to make and are from 100 years old technology. NO NUKES & PETROL we do not need to poison the world in the name of GE and their profits.

[MrCleanandWhite]

This guy would make a great parrot

I wonder if the puppet masters have their hand up his ass to control his mouth, or if they have just taught him to be a good parrot and repeat what they have told him...with out having to use any energy from his brain cells.

We are riding in a sea of electrical energy, it is free for the world to use, however the puppet masters just keep that technology from us.