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Chuck
10-21-2009, 04:22 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg America was in bed during the Cold War with regimes in El Salvadore, Chile, Iran...Peakoil could repeat this (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/chronicling-the-violent-twilight-of-oil/)

http://www.youtube.com/v/d3hxReFhiVE&hl=en&fs=1&Jeremy Miller - BLOGS (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) - Oct 21, 2009

This is a national security issue among other things --Ed.

In his new book, “Crude World,” Peter Maass, a journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times magazine, chronicles what he calls “the violent twilight of oil.”

Over the course of a decade, Mr. Maass traveled to more than a dozen countries where the existence of oil shapes, and often violently corrupts, the economic and political culture. Indeed, the world of oil painted by Mr. Maass is bleak, volatile and — punctuated by environmental degradation — ultimately unsustainable.

Mr. Maass recently agreed to take some questions from Green Inc., and excerpts from that e-mail exchange — the first of two parts — follow....http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/chronicling-the-violent-twilight-of-oil/



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