Raise the Hammer

The following US government reports all point toward the seriousness of Peak Oil as well as how soon it will start to impact Western Civilization:

The Hirsch Report - Feb 2005
The Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/oil_peaking_netl.pdf

The Army Corps of Engineers Report - Sep 2005
Energy Trends and Implications for US Army Installations
http://www.cecer.army.mil/techreports/Westervelt_EnergyTrends_TN/Westervelt_EnergyTrends__TN.pdf

The US General Accountability Office Report on Crude Oil - February 2007
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07283.pdf

National Petroleum Council Hard Truths Report - July 2007
Facing the Hard Truths About Energy
http://www.npchardtruthsreport.org/

The US Joint Forces Command Report - March 2010
The Joint Operating Enviroment Report, 2010
http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/joe2010.pdf


The US Energy Information Administration Report - October 2010
The US Department of Energy / Energy Information Administration / Annual Energy Outlook 2010
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/

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And, as an added bonus, here are two vital speeches addressing the problem as as real and threatening problem. Note the dates on each of them them.

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Speech by Dr. M King Hubbert, Oil Geologist for Shell Oil Company
Delivered in Houston, Texas, 1956

No text available.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=476
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"Energy resources and our future"
by Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Navy
FOR RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1957

Chief, Naval Reactors Branch
Division of Reactor Development
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
and
Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships for Nuclear Propulsion
Navy Department

For Delivery at a Banquet of the Annual Scientific Assembly of
the Minnesota State Medical Association
St. Paul, Minnesota

May 14, 1957

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23151

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