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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339928.ece
What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis
By Jeremy Leggett Published: 20 January 2006

Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas
supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output...
Is something sinister going on? Yes, says former oil man Jeremy Leggett,
and it's time to face the fact that the supplies we so depend on are going to run out.

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of an acute, civilisation-changing energy crisis.
The latest wobble over disruptions to gas supplies from Russia is merely the latest in a series
of reminders of how dependent our economies are on growing supplies of oil and gas.
On Wednesday, Gazprom's deputy chairman was in London reassuring Britain that there
would be no risk of disruption to British gas supplies in the fall-out from the ongoing spat
between Russia and Ukraine over pricing. The very next day, temperatures in Moscow broke
a 50-year record, plunging to minus 30C. Gas normally exported was diverted to the home front.
Supplies to the West fell. ,,,



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