Getallen olievoorraden kunstmatig hoog gehouden om paniek ivm peak oil te voorkomen

Ah, die link hoef ik dus niet meer in te sturen :)

@ Loupe: leuk, nog meer oildrum lezers :))

Interessante berichtgeving, die geruchten gaan al langer rond en zijn door voormalig voorzitter Claude Mandil van het IEA ontkent in een interview in de European Energy Review.

Kjell Aleklett, President van de Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas schreef vandaag dit bericht als reactie op het artikel in the Guardian:

Comments on “Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower”, The Guardian

At that opportunity, in November 2007, I had a number of private conversations with officers of the IEA. The revelations now reported in the Guardian were revealed to me then under the promise that I not name the source. I had earlier heard the same thing from another officer from Norway who, at the time he spoke of the pressure being applied by the USA, was working for the IEA. Since these anecdotes were not scientific evidence I never made use of the information other than as inspiration to continue our own research.

Too fearful to publicise peak oil reality

So far in facing this huge challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don’t even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.

Eigenlijk is het niets nieuws dat die energy outlooks niet te vertrouwen waren. Al in 2006 gaf ik dit aan (zou best nog wel in een comment van mij van rond die tijd kunnen staan).