THE RIMINI PROTOCOL
an Oil Depletion Protocol

People ask: Are we running out of oil ? The simple answer is: Yes, we started doing that when we produced the first barrel. But Running Out is not the main issue as the resource will not be finally exhausted for very many years. The much more relevant question is: When will production reach a peak and begin to decline?

Download

Download the Hirsch Report
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Crisis Management. Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, February 2005

Download The Twighlight of Modern World The Four Stages of Post-Oil Breakdown by Paul Thompson from his website www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk


Senator Walter Mondale QT
on rising inflation 1976 (1/2): Download
this so far unpublished footage from National Archives

Senator Walter Mondale QT
on peaking US oil production 1976 (2/2): Download
this so far unpublished footage from National Archives


Download the OilCrash trailer for the iPod:

Links

Link to the NYT Magazine cover story on Peak Oil by Peter Maas

Link to National Geographic's cover story on The End of Cheap Oil by Tim Appenzeller

Link to Jeremy Leggett's article ("What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis") in the Independent (UK) on the Peak Oil News Clearinghouse www.energybulletin.net

Listen to President Jimmy Carter's radio adress to the nation on the energy crisis, April 18, 1977 - courtesy of
www.peakoil.com

Link to the Matt Savinar's excellent website www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

Robert Atack’s great Peakoil site from
New Zealand: http://www.oilcrash.com

Link to the Postcarbon Institute

Have a good laugh with Jon Stewart's daily show - search for "Oil or nothing" and many others...

Downloads for the media
You're welcome to download and publish these high-resolution pictures when you refer to the movie Oilcrash by quoting their origins as from www.oilcrashmovie.com

- A bathtub of crude in Azerbaijan - while it lasts.jpg

- Basil Gelpke digging for extra heavy oil in Venezuela.jpg

- Basil Gelpke waiting to testdrive a Hummer.jpg

- Basil Gelpke with Rep. Roscoe Bartlett.jpg

- Depleted Azeri oilfield.jpg

- DOP Frank Messmer filming at Bantry Bay House, Ireland.jpg

- DOP Frank Messmer on a depleted Azeri oilfield.jpg

- Hummer dealership in Houston.jpg

- Hummer dealership in Houston 2.jpg

- Irish strategic oil reserves on Whiddy Island.jpg

- Oil supplies are in a twilight zone.jpg

- Oil supply is drying out.jpg

- OilCrash is soon coming to a gas station near you.jpg

- OilCrash is soon coming to a gas station near you 2.jpg

- Ray McCormack in the edit suite.jpg

- Ray McCormack with Colin Campbell and Basil Gelpke (freezing at Bantry House, Ireland).jpg

- Ray McCormack with Colin Campbell and Basil Gelpke (freezing at Bantry House, Ireland).2.jpg

- The future of the automobile.jpg

- Water instead of oil.jpg


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