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"Then the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait (from August 1990 to February 1991) resulted in an interruption of Persian Gulf oil supplies, a rapid rise in international oil prices, and increased demand for Venezuelan oil. The stage was set for a time of sudden prosperity in Venezuela. The Kuwaiti experience supposedly convinced investors of the importance of Venezuela as an alternate oil supplier outside the unstable Persian Gulf." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Price-Earnings Ratio and Interest Rates, 1881-2005 5 1.4 oil prices Compared with Stock Prices, 1871-2005 10 2.1 U.S. Home Prices, Building Costs, Population, and Interest Rates, 1890-2004 16 2.2 Home Prices in a Sample of Cities, Quarterly, 1983-2004 21 2.3 Home Prices in Some Cities around the World, Quarterly, 1983-2004 22 4.1 Valuation Confidence Index, 1989-2004 75 10.1 Price-Earnings Ratios as Predictors of Ten-Year Returns 188 10.2 Stock Prices and Dividend Present Values 193 Tables 7.1 Largest Recent One-Year Real Stock Price Index Increases 136 7." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"This issue is growing in political significance, as many believe we have reached, or are on the verge of reaching, "peak oil," after which oil prices will skyrocket. Supplements and Super Foods No one disputes the fact that most of our farm soil is minerally deficient. Even a study done as early as 1936, reported in Senate Document 264, 74th Congress, second session, found that 99% of Americans are minerally deficient. It announced that our soil is severely deficient in minerals." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Who can say for sure that parking a hybrid for free in a downtown lot in Des Moines won't be the "tipping point" that causes a collapse in oil prices . . . the little butterfly that flaps its wings and sets in motion a whole chain of airy events . . . leading to a tornado in downtown Tehran? Finally, suddenly, a new wind could blow through the Persian capital . . . and the mullahs would see their turbans take flight! CALIPHS AND CRUSADERS Nor is it the first time that people have tried to do good in the Near East." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"In addition, high energy prices make people behave more efficiently in the way they use energy, thereby reducing emissions. High oil prices also make renewable energy more competitive, spurring further investments in solar and wind. But fossil fuels are not only oil. Coal, still used to generate most of the world's electricity, is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than oil - and there's enough coal in the world to last another couple of centuries at least, busting any reasonable emissions budget many times over." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Due to drought and inability to grow enough food to feed its people, internal conditions in China deteriorate dramatically, leading to civil war and border wars. ?Oil prices increase as the security of the supply is threatened by conflicts in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea Region. ?In Europe, we see old-time skirmishes between France and Germany over commercial access to the Rhine. Third Decade ?Nearly 10 percent of the European population has moved to a different country. Tension grows between China and Japan over Russian energy. •The EU nears collapse." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "At the same time that NatureWorks has increased its manufacturing know-how and increased efficiency, oil prices have risen dramatically. Indeed, even before the devastating consequences that hurricanes Kat-rina and Rita wrought on the petrochemical industry in the Gulf of Mexico, the "corntainers" in its deli cost Wld Oats 5 percent less than traditional plastic, said spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele. Also flexing their economic patriotism is Newman's Own, the natural foods company the movie actor and race car driver Paul Newman began with his daughter Nell." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In just the past ten years, the distance flown by international passengers each year has increased by 60 percent; this despite temporary setbacks from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Iraq war, outbreaks of terrorism, soaring oil prices, and economic slowdowns. The World Tourism Organization projects that by 2010 there will be more than 1 billion international tourist arrivals, reflecting a trend toward more long-haul travel. By 2020, 1.2 billion people are projected to have traveled regionally; 400 million, to have traveled farther afield." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"But now we see things happening that are frightening people—the extreme hikes in oil prices, vast portions of the Arctic that are melting, evacuations of South Seas island nations [like Tuvalu], due to the rising tide. People are ready for the next big leap. I want to see change accelerate, and most of the deep thinkers on the topic like Amory and Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken know there has to be more, something more fundamental, because otherwise all we are ever doing is lobbying for this side or that. That's pure power money politics where you pay for phones and campaigners." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Actually, we rate the likelihood of a fall in oil prices as a consequence of free parking for hybrids at zero, but for the purpose of this little exercise, we will spot the columnist a few points and simplify the math. Even if the odds of each event were one in two, the odds of the whole chain of events working out as expected could be expressed as.5 x .5 x .5 x .5 x .5 x .5. We're not even going to bother with the math. What it amounts to is this: Icebergs will float in hell before free parking spaces for hybrids bring desirable "reform" to Iran." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The Wall Street Journal reported that oil companies are reaping huge cash windfalls from the rise in oil prices. This points out an interesting fact. oil prices continue to rise, not because costs are rising, but simply because the oil companies demand more profits. The Wall Street Journal exposes that the oil companies are reaping windfall profits at the expense of the consumer. This is an obvious violation of antitrust laws and a violation of business ethics—all at the expense of you and me, the consumer." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Without cheap fertilizers—and the cheap oil used to make them—this productivity can't be sustained. As oil prices continue climbing this century, this cycle may stall with disastrous consequences. We burned more than a trillion barrels of oil over the past two decades. That's eighty million barrels a day—enough to stack to the moon and back two thousand times. Making oil requires a specific series of geologic accidents over inconceivable amounts of time. First, organic-rich sediment needs to be buried faster than it can decay." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Synfuels' still supply half of South Africa's petrol and diesel, and with high world oil prices, coal 'synfuels' are becoming competitive elsewhere too. The liquidation of coal produces much more C02 than conventional refining - so peak oil in this case would worsen global warming. Other 'unconventional oil' sources are similarly polluting - the extraction of oil from the tar sand deposits in the Canadian province of Alberta uses vast quantities of steam and natural gas, meaning that the 'energy returned on energy invested' ratio is dangerously low and emissions dangerously high." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Skyrocketing oil prices had breathed life into even formerly abandoned wells, and the Midway-Sunset oilfield was humming with happy men and women. I drove down Highway 33, past Berry Petroleum, Conoco, ExxonMobil, and a host of independents' signs. I took Shale Road down toward the coastal foothills. I was surrounded. You do not know what an oilfield is until you have visited the Midway-Sunset field, and you are driving down Shale Road, and the oil pumps become ever more numerous. I turned off the radio, which was now nothing but static." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If true, the disease had been triggered by a world event that had no immediately obvious food-safety implications: the decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)—founded in i960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela—to raise crude oil prices. Forced Cannibalism In October 1973, in retaliation for Western nations' support of Israel against its Arab neighbors in the so-called Yom Kippur War, OPEC decided to raise oil prices 70 percent." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"This points out an interesting fact. oil prices continue to rise, not because costs are rising, but simply because the oil companies demand more profits. The Wall Street Journal exposes that the oil companies are reaping windfall profits at the expense of the consumer. This is an obvious violation of antitrust laws and a violation of business ethics—all at the expense of you and me, the consumer. • The Associated Press reports that there is a transfer of wealth of historic proportions toward the oil producers. Simply put, the oil companies have a monopoly." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"In late 1985, world oil prices collapsed. By early 1986 West Texas crude had plummeted from a high of $31.75 a barrel to $10. Some OPEC countries went as low as $6. The fifteen-year-glut was on. The price collapse benefited many businesses, but hit U.S. oil companies hard. The majors quickly shut down exploration ventures and shed employees. Independents went out of business and suppliers went bankrupt as drilling stopped. Oil cities such as Tulsa and Houston went into economic tailspins." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The assumption was that high oil prices were here to stay and everybody wanted to cash in. U.S. oil companies benefited as much as anyone from the high price level despite having passed peak domestically years earlier. (They were still pumping and still producing more than half of America's domestic needs.) The American companies plowed profits into exploring around the Gulf of Mexico and into new techniques for recovering oil from older fields." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Without surplus capacity, the ability to open the valves and flood the market with "product," the United States had ceded control of world oil prices to somebody else who still did have surplus capacity. That "somebody else" was the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), led by Saudi Arabia. The First Real Oil Shock In 1973, Saudi Arabia had tremendous surplus capacity. The country had more oil to start with than the United States had had a hundred years earlier, and had entered the process of discovery and production much later than America did." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The massive system seemed to have a momentum of its own that defied occurrences such as a doubling of crude oil prices over the past year. Anyway, life in the United States was so frantic—between the grinding job insecurity, and the war in Iraq, and the horrendous traffic, and orange terror alerts, and child abductions, and the maxed-out credit cards, and the hurricane of the week, and the lack of medical insurance— there was already too much in the here-and-now to worry about." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Bush's mission to Saudi Arabia was to persuade its leaders to help stabilize oil prices that were rapidly falling to under $10 a barrel. His trip was successful. Saudi Arabia's King Fahd received the Iranian petroleum minister in the autumn of 1986 and the two countries agreed to OPEC arrangements for boosting oil prices to $18 a barrel. The $18 price brought economic relief to oil-producing states like Texas, which were the key to Bush's political base. SOURCES: Pacific News Service, 12/21/87, "Bush Had Oil Policy Interest in Promoting Iran Arms Deals," by Peter Dale Scott." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.) "Why oil prices Go Up 1976 SYNOPSIS: While most Americans believe the increase in oil prices was due to the Arab oil embargo started in 1973, few are aware that their elected representatives collaborated with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Persian oil-producing nations to deliberately inflate the price of oil. As early as 1971, the U.S. State Department established oil policy priorities during international negotiations, emphasizing the "stability, orderliness, and durability" of supply with no intention of maintaining price limits." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.) "Peter Dale Scott, co-author of The Iran Contra Connection and former senior fellow at the International Center for Development Policy in Washington, suggests Bush's primary concern in early 1986 was to stabilize falling crude oil prices by promoting a common price policy between the United States and the oil producers of the Persian Gulf, including, above all, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Further, Scott says, the interest in higher oil prices was an explicit goal in some of Oliver North's secret arms negotiations with the Iranians." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Lack of Washington connections helped his candidacy but not his presidency, as congress ignored Carter's pleas for tax reform and a long-range energy policy. When oil prices doubled, most Americans blamed Carter for runaway inflation; this, combined with the Iran hostage crisis, led to his landslide defeat in the 1980 election. In lateryears he became a trusted figure around the world, often monitoring contentious elections. Carrier, Jacques, b. Saint-Malo, France, 1491; d. 1557. French navigator. Cartier may have sailed with Giovanni da Verrazano to North America and to Brazil (1524-27)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"But as the American economy showed signs of trouble, with oil prices, inflation, and unemployment rising, Carter seemed more and more concerned about the difficulties the act created for business. He became an advocate of removing regulations on corporations and giving them more leeway, even if this was hurtful to labor and to consumers. Environmental regulation became more and more a victim of "cost-benefit" analysis, in which regulations protecting the health and safety of the public became secondary to how costly this would be for business." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "President decontrolled oil prices, a decision worth $2 billion to the oil industry . . . Jack Hodges of Oklahoma City, owner of Core Oil and Gas Company, said: "The top man of this country ought to live in one of the top places. Mr. Reagan has helped the energy business." While he built up the military (allocations of over a trillion dollars in his first four years in office), Reagan tried to pay for this with cuts in benefits for the poor. There would be $140 billion of cuts in social programs through 1984 and an increase of $181 billion for "defense" in the same period." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to 570; gold reached $800 an ounce; and U.S. inflation and interest rates climbed to double-digit levels. Imagine an investor who bought a 30-year U.S. Treasury bond in 1970. Did he not have a right to expect to receive a dollar back for every dollar lent? And shouldn't he have been able to expect that each of those dollars he received—in the year 2000—would be worth about as much as those he had given up? We can measure the damage by looking at the price of gold. In 1970, each dollar would buy an investor %4 of an ounce of gold. Thirty-five years later, Mr." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"It also has been charged that Bush actively promoted the Iran arms sales because of an economic motive the President did not share—the desire to stabilize plunging oil prices in 1986. Peter Dale Scott, co-author of The Iran Contra Connection and former senior fellow at the International Center for Development Policy in Washington, suggests Bush's primary concern in early 1986 was to stabilize falling crude oil prices by promoting a common price policy between the United States and the oil producers of the Persian Gulf, including, above all, Iran and Saudi Arabia." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

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