Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil

Michael Ruppert has an article discussing the White House stonewalling of the lawsuits filing for release of secret Energy Task Force documentation.

...It's a sure bet that of all the plaintiffs; from Congressman Henry Waxman (D – CA) and Comptroller General David Walker who fought for the GAO; to Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman, who had previously fought Bill Clinton; to the environmentalists, none had a clue as to what they were really asking for or why Dick Cheney fought them so ruthlessly.

The fight was just beginning.

As reported in the congressional newspaper The Hill on February 19, 2003, the GAO dropped its suit after the administration made threats of heavy cuts to its budget. The offer GAO couldn't refuse was delivered by Alaska 's Republican Senator Ted Stevens where a lot of new drilling was expected to take place. Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club stood firm. Both had the money to see their suits through.

...All these battles started before the first plane hit the Twin Towers . That's one reason why everyone was so shocked at the blatantly illegal secrecy and the manner in which the administration fought. This was long before The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Patriot Act II, and all the scandalous lies that have since been revealed. One of the administration's bets was that, in the wake of 9/11, the NEPDG records would be forgotten.

They lost that one.

Hints as to what was discussed in the secret task force – empanelled immediately after Bush took office in January 2001 – are now on the table. They strongly suggest that inside the NEPDG records lay the deepest, darkest secrets of 9-11. The motive; the apocalyptic truth that would compel such carnage and hairpin the course of human history; the thing that no one ever wanted to know; the thing that makes it utterly believable that the US government could have deliberately facilitated the attacks of September 11th, stands on the brink of full disclosure.

The likelihood that those truths might soon be revealed is serious enough that two weeks ago Dick Cheney found it convenient to go duck hunting with Justice Antonin Scalia who will hear arguments in the case this spring.

Indeed.

The human race now uses four barrels of oil for every barrel found and the gap is widening each year. What remains to be discovered is gong to be of a lesser quality, much more expensive to obtain, and more expensive to refine.

And so we are going to fight each other to the death for it rather than focus on alternative energy sources. Because, hey, the people who stand to gain the most by the gouging that is to come are the people who are controlling the policies that determine where we focus.

And don't forget that Shell oil reserves were badly overestimated. Or at least they were publicly claimed to be greater than they are. They don't have 13-14 years of "assured production", but only 10-11. How about other large oil companies? Are they also "overestimating"? Well, gee..."OPEC misreports its oil reserves because its quotas depend upon the reported reserves, and the reserves were overestimated in the Soviet Union because economic and technical constraints were ignored."

Is anybody paying attention? Ten years.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Eat. Drink. And be Mary. Hmmmmm.......somehow, I think that's the answer. I'll get back to you on that one.

In the meantime, think about this bit from Three Days of the Condor...

It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15 years - food, Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then? ...Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who've never known hunger start going hungry. Do you want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it for them."

I think that's a given. In fact, I think that's where we are as a country right now - and we haven't even gotten all that cold or hungry yet.