ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference 2008

A Year of Peak Oil Awareness
A Year of Progress for ASPO-USA

Our 2008 Sacramento Conference, Co-sponsored by the University of California Davis, will highlight a year of skyrocketing awareness for Peak Oil, and exciting new growth and plans for ASPO-USA. Conference participants will include Matt Simmons, Jeff Rubin, Jim Buckee, Jeremy Gilbert, Herman Franssen, Kjell Aleklett, Randy Udall, Jim Puplava, David Hughes, Dan Reicher, Vince Mathews, Nate hagens, and many others. In addition, ASPO-USA will be reporting on its new professional staff and office headquarters, and its merger with a well-established energy education and outreach group that will help us carry the Peak Oil message even further. A formal announcement of these exciting developments will be made prior to the conference. As our Conference theme notes, The Future Starts Now!

The Conference begins on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 21, with concurrent afternoon sessions led by national journalists Neil King (WSJ) and Bart Anderson (Energy Bulletin) on “Reporting the Peak Oil Story”, and investment specialists Jim Papluva, Jim Hansen and Atticus Lowe on “Investing in the new Energy Economy”.  The day will conclude with a Social Reception and an evening presentation by Professor Al Bartlett on the “Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis.” (Hint: The word “Exponential” will be mentioned.) 

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Two full days of plenary sessions, on Monday, Sept. 22 (“Demand, Meet Supply”) and Tuesday, Sept. 23 (“Intelligent Responses”), will each be followed by Social Receptions and evening presentations.

Day One will be moderated by Sally Odland and Randy Udall of ASPO-USA, and Jim Puplava of Financial Sense; geologists Ken Verosub and Gina Mull will assess California’s heavy oil, and Alaska’s Prudoe Bay, TAP and ANWR; Matt Simmons, Jeremy Gilbert and Morey Wolfson will discuss the state of Aging Infrastructure, Big Oil and Resource Nationalism; and Jeff Rubin and Herman Franssen will examine the economic impacts of $100 and €70 Crude Oil.

Day Two will be moderated by ASPO-USA’s Steve Andrews and Ron Swenson; Vince Mathews, David Hughes and Michael Webber will discuss Natural Gas and Coal as Liquid Fuels substitutes; Randy Udall will examine Fossil Fuel Limits on IPCC Scenarios; and Susan Capalbo will present the latest developments in Economics, Tradeoffs, and Technology of Carbon Sequestration. Luncheon and afternoon sessions will focus on the Future of Aviation and Ground Transportation, Sustainable Mobility, and the Transition of Fuels to Flows as the future turns electric.

For complete information and early registration discounts, please visit our 2008 Conference website at http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/.

This year’s conference will be more affordable and accessible than ever before thanks to a Ride-Share and Room-Share Program, available at http://spaceshare.com/aspo/.

  A Year of Progress for ASPO-USA

At the 2007 Houston Conference, we announced the Bob Kanner Matching Grant challenge to raise money, hire full-time staff, carry the Peak Oil message even further, and take dead aim at Peak Oil Deniers. We’ve done all that and much more. Thanks to your generous response, we’ve hired an executive director and staff, merged with another non-profit group, secured an office headquarters, and gained nationwide media coverage as brokers of a $100,000 wager by prominant peak oil watchers against CERA’s rosy production estimates.

Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas – USA
P.O. Box 371438 Denver, CO 8023
For information, call 856-981-0671

  ASPO-USA is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization exploring energy strategies for a healthy economy and a clean environment.

Your Tax Dollars at Work!
Headline of New Peak Oil Poster by U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/publications/Peak_Oil_-_the_Turning_Point.pdf

Dear ASPO-USA Supporter:

Following the 2007 Houston Conference, we sent you an appeal announcing the Bob Kanner Matching Grant challenge to raise money, hire full-time staff, carry the Peak Oil message even further, and take dead aim at Peak Oil Deniers. We’ve done all that and much more. Thanks to your generous response, we’ve hired a professional staff, merged with another non-profit group, and gained nationwide media coverage brokering a $100,000 wager against CERA’s optimistic production estimates. Of course, CERA declined the bet, but news outlets across the nation- from the Wall Street Journal to World Oil magazine- covered the story, and CERA’s Oil & Gas Optimist Club lost some members. CERA flunked our first annual Peak Oil Score Card (below), but we hope that a summer school session in remedial Peak Oil analysis will bring them up to grade.

News Release: Wager Challenges CERA Oil Supply Prediction
Confirming the Wager - Letter of Credit
G.R. Morton “The Sad Record of Daniel Yergin and Cambridge Energy Research Associates”
Download Peak Oil Score Card: ( Color | Black & White )

We’d never before asked for contributions, but you responded, and we need just a little more help from our friends right now. We need your tax-deductible contributions of $100, $500, $1000, $5000 or more to reach our final $100K goal which, with the Matching Grant, will give us the $300K needed to fund a two-year campaign to get sustainable foundation funding to support ongoing operations with the full-time staff and office we’ve already secured. Give for yourselves, your children, your grandchildren, and the nation they will inherit from us.

So in the Spirit of Speaking Truth to Power, and in the Spirit of Charitable Tax Deductions … write a generous check today and send it to the address below … or visit our sponsorship site at aspousa.org to make a contribution using your credit card.  We will proudly recognize your name on our website, or, if preferred, we’ll happily list you as an “anonymous” donor.

If you’ve already contributed to the Matching Grant Challenge, please forward this message to a friend or colleague who shares your concern about our nation’s energy future. In addition to Bob Kanner, donors include Marvin Gottlieb, Matt Simmons, Henry Groppe, Tom Petrie, Roger Baker, Margie Halie, Kevin Douglas, Kurt Cobb, Bruce Rose, Richard Ha, Jerry Mercer, Michael Saalfeld, Don McMaster and hundreds of others. For a full list of the proud company you’ll be keeping as a Matching Grant Partner, please see our Honored Donors Page here.

Then write and mail your check today to ASPO-USA, P.O. Box 371438, Denver, CO 8023. For information call Rick Block at 856-845-0579.

Your children and grandchildren will thank you. The EIA and CERA will not.