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Bailouts and body bags: US military plans for peak oil

By Erik Curren | November 1, 2010

Rear Admiral Lawrence Rice

"I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants--those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age," said Admiral Hymen Rickover in 1957. Fast forward to 2010, and US military leadership clearly feels that the time has come again to talk about the Fossil Fuel Age and the national security dangers of its end. But this time, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clean energy hawks, energy policy, fossil fuel, Hymen Rickover, James Schlesinger, James Woolsey, Joe Biden, Joint Operating Environment, national debt, national security, Nov 2010, peak oil, petroleum politics, US military

Peak oil, national security, and you

By Lindsay Curren | October 8, 2010

Girl With Gun

LIVE REPORT For a girl who barely knows how to hoist and aim our double barreled shotgun (and who can only hit the broadside of a barn door), I get such an inexplicable kick out of hearing about and talking about peak oil as a key national security issue. Perhaps it just seems so obvious to me, and an easy sell for those who might otherwise be resistant to accepting and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: ASPO, clean energy hawks, national security, nuclear power, peak oil

Would Patton hate nukes?

By Erik Curren | October 1, 2010

George C. Scott as Patton

It appears that General George S. Patton, hero of the Battle of the Bulge, is back.  As always, he's not taking any balogna in Bastogne.  But this time, he's come to open up a can of whoop-ass on energy ideas that would make America open to foreign baddies. "Patton is the biggest enemy of nuclear power,"  according to his amanuensis, former CIA Director James Woolsey,  who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: biofuels, clean energy hawks, conservation, James Woolsey, national security, Oct 2010, oil

Green hawks fight clean (and mean)

By Erik Curren | October 1, 2010

Hellfire helicopter firing

Their natural habitat is the Pentagon, NATO Allied Joint Force Command, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And their prey is oil sheiks and petro-caudillos, saboteurs of nuclear plants, and others who would use energy to intimidate America. They worry that importing oil from foreign countries ruled by hostile regimes puts America's national security … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: clean energy hawks, James Woolsey, national security, Oct 2010

Join us at the ASPO-USA conference

By Staff Reports | September 30, 2010

ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference 2010

The Transition Voice team will be blogging live from the 2010 Peak Oil Conference: The Future of Oil, Energy, and the Economy, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (USA). The event will take place in Washington, DC from Thursday, October 7 through Saturday, October 9, 2010. The program features speakers including Ralph Nader, Bianca Jagger, Robert … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: clean energy, conservation, national security, peak oil

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