Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 3]

[May 8th, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives] Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Peak Oil, back together for the x[th] time. The House is empty, and while other congressmen are away kissing babies, Roscoe rocks the floor. This time he finally addresses the money problem in the form of MONEY LAUNDERING; it's a start.

Thanks to Ron Paul, some are beginning to understand that gas prices going up is not just about "demand and supply", Government (backed by the G.O.P. -and- the Democratic Party) is responsible for monetizing public debt, which forcefully leads to higher prices. Nice tie.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtkq5DdcgYA
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2M-_5oQCik
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6hzZ1w-1As
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbReYdVOigs
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 5]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbm7Fd3E0b4

----------------------------------------------------------------


(Transcript)

Mr. Speaker, several days ago I came into the office early and I found at my door the usual package of newspapers and I opened them up and was placing them out on the table, and I noticed the headlines. And this is every paper that was at my door that morning. There were four newspapers and there were three inside-the-Beltway newspapers intended primarily for those interested in the Congress. I want to go through the headlines in every one of those papers.

Here is the Baltimore Sun, and they had two headlines above the fold both related to energy, ``Demand Eats Supply,'' and ``Energy Bill Aids Payouts on Rise.''

Then I went to the Washington Times and there was a headline, ``Bush Lays Gas Blame on Congress.''

And then I went to the Wall Street Journal and the Wall Street Journal headline was ``Grain Companies' Profits Soar as Global Food Crisis Mounts.''

Then I turned to the U.S. News part of the Wall Street Journal and what do you know, above the fold there were two more headlines, ``Bush Prods Lawmakers on Economy and Energy Prices,'' and ``GOP Senators Urge Halt to Oil Reserve.''

Then I noted the three papers that are kind of inside the Beltway papers: Roll Call, ``Alexander Eyes Energy Agenda''; The Hill, ``Politics At the Pump''; and Politico had ``Gas Prices Fuel Effort to Jam the GOP.''

So every one of these seven papers that were on my doorstep that morning had headlines talking about energy. Now I noted just a few days before that there was a New York Times op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman. This is what he says about energy.

Here is what is scary. Our problem is so much worse than you think. We have no energy strategy. If you are going to use tax policy to shape energy strategy, then you want to raise taxes on the things that you want
to discourage --gasoline consumption and gas-guzzling cars-- and you want to lower taxes on the things you want to encourage new renewable energy technologies. We are doing just the opposite, he says.

The gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today, and I quote, ``Maximize demand, minimize supply, and buy the rest from the people who hate us most.''

THIS IS NOT AN ENERGY POLICY. THIS IS MONEY LAUNDERING, he says. We borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. No, no, no, we will just get the money by taxing Big Oil. Even if you could do that, what a terrible way to spend precious tax dollars, he says.

For almost a year now, Congress has been bickering over whether and how to renew the investment tax credit to stimulate investment in solar energy and the production of tax credit to encourage investment in wind energy. And a little later I will go over this bill that has already passed the Senate, and we have introduced it in the House now.

(...)

[ http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8565724 ]

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• peak
• oil
• bartlett
• dollar
• money
• gas
• usa
• 2008
• elections
• energy
• ron
• paul
• constitution

[mycatisromeo]

To whomever who posted this video: Is Peak oil now? I've done a lot of research on this and I see us at Peak now and next year the world will consume about 2% more than we produce. What do you think?

[jaralero]

We are at "peak dollar" for sure.

With China growing so fast, PO is coming sooner than expected. The US consumes more oil than China, Japan, Germany, Russia and India put together.

Saudi Arabia plans to add 200 billion barrels to its proven reserves. New paper reserves. Same thing for "America sitting on 200 billion barrels in ND." Oddly enough, it is always a 200 billion figure. So I trust R. Kerr's estimate (in 1998): sometime between 2010 and 2020 oil will peak at 80 m. barrels per day.

[wannabegunslinger]

The fact that the majority of congress did not attend this is appalling.

[Civsuccess2]

Ignorant members of congress.

[moonsugar1]

@1776independent Im in the UK and we have exactly the same problem. This is all getting very real now, I think its safe to say there will be some other big signs by the end of the year.

What worries me, is like you say, our Governments cant NOT KNOW about this problem, Oil has always been finite, at no point has this problem gone away, and both of our countries have peaked in the past themselves, so they know whats happening. Just what do they intend to do about it?!

[MillyVanillification]

@mycatisromeo World Peak Oil was in 2006. The extraction figures are fake to avoid a swing towards other energy sources. OPEC extracts more water than oil. Currently the world needs around 90 bn barrels per year. This means that oil will be completely over in 2028-2030. No matter how deep you drill. The usable oil reserves are already in production. What they'll find miles deep below the seafloor is a lot of sulfur-contaminated dirt that needs lots of processing to become useful as fuel.

[cadentavaricegrtrj]

The Oil companies are trying their best to stop free energy ideas from spreading to common people.

We need to put an end to this corruption ,start generating your own electricity now.

Visit LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM and get the blueprints . Join the Revolution!!

[1776independent]

How many times does the United States have to be hit over the head with this problem before we wake up and understand it? We even have people in our Congress that understand it and they do absolutely nothing to educate the broad population about this existential threat to our civilization. Nothing.

[mccan413]

I know its like the blackest form of humour that barely anyone attended