Click here to access article by Andrew Nikiforuk from The Tyee (Canada).
The article cuts through a lot of the smoke and mirrors coverage found in mainstream media to get at many of the realities of oil production.
Unfortunately, they don't quite go far enough. The basic reality that this article implies, but does not make explicit, is that private ownership and control of fossil fuel production and consumption is the major barrier preventing any kind of sensible policies. Or, another way to put it is: the system of capitalism and rational policies in terms of energy and environment are in fundamental conflict. Hence, the only choice is to create another social-economic system, one that can produce rational policies.
