Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Carl Remick
From: Mike Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only people with masochistic tendencies like being freely smacked around by the invisible hand. Most people instinctively put their hands up to protect themselves ... [Some, of course, are better positioned than others to blunt the blows :) The following is

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Devine, James
> Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > > > > Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive > > quantitative world study of the > > political economy of cars ? > > "Automobilization," if I remember correctly, was a central concern of > Baran & Sweezy's _Monopoly Capitalism_. They offer that as the core > explan

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Carrol Cox
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > > Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive > quantitative world study of the > political economy of cars ? "Automobilization," if I remember correctly, was a central concern of Baran & Sweezy's _Monopoly Capitalism_. They offer that as the core explanation for both the

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Bill Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, October 3, 2003 at 00:30:12 (-0700) Sabri > Oncu writes: > >Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link: > > > >> The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all > creative energies > >> uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in > harmony with >

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Bill Lear
On Friday, October 3, 2003 at 00:30:12 (-0700) Sabri Oncu writes: >Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link: > >> The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies >> uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with >> this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all ob

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-03 Thread Sabri Oncu
Leonard E. Read in David Shemano's link: > The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies > uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with > this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles > the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to >

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-02 Thread David B. Shemano
Juriaan Bendien writes: >> The car industry is a very important sector of the world economy, it's among >> the most important consumer durables there is. I could practically >> reconstruct the whole of modern capitalist culture, just through tracing all >> the connections involving one motor car.

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Jurriaan Bendien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive > quantitative world study of the > political economy of cars ? I did a quick probe a > while ago, but has > somebody actually very comprehensively estimated all > the different sides of > the story ? > Th

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive quantitative world study of the political economy of cars ? I did a quick probe a while ago, but has somebody actually very comprehensively estimated all the different sides of the story ? The car industry is a very important sector of the world economy,

Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-02 Thread Devine, James
L PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -Original Message- > From: Jurriaan Bendien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L] The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts > >

The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

2003-10-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
World oil and gas supplies are headed for a "production crunch" sometime between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot meet supply, because global reserves are 80 per cent smaller than had been thought, new forecasts show. An analysis presented this week at the University of Uppsala in Sweden suggests th