Why does the County hire lobby firms to lobby the state and federal govt.?? I thought that's what why we elected the commissioners. Why does the county hire law firms? I thought they had a legal dept. What is even worse is that the municipalities do the same thing and they are usually suing the county/state and lobbying against each other. Sounds like a win-win for lawyers/lobbyists!!

It does not matter who is in charge there is only so much cheap oil. IEA 2005-2006 was the most produced of cheap conventional oil!! Get used to it. If you you don't like the capital system then don't give it your capital!!

It is Supply and Demand. Everything is tight so every little hiccup causes problems. Welcome to Peak Oil! Here is a good vid discussing speculators!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSr6fhxK00A

Great posts this morning. Yes conventional oil appears to have peaked in 2005/2006 according IEA and EIA numbers. (yes there could be a surge in production but it won't last and it is a long, slow remorseless decline)Its the unconventional liquids that are being produced more but they are expensive and their energy content is greatly reduced when compared to conventional oil.

Speculators are not the problem it is Supply and Demand. This is a nice video/discussion about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSr6fhxK0...

Serf according to DETR Clark County had 955,600 eligible workers with 142,500 unemployed for Dec 2010. For a rate 0f 14.9%. They call Clark County Las Vegas-Paradise MSA

You can get the data if you go to their website and go under press releases. This info is also published in the papers every month but I found it difficult to search for.

So that means about 1,080,000 are not counted as workers. I've seen numbers that CCSD enrollment is 300,000 so that leaves 780,000 retired/homeless/no longer seeking work etc....

I did not have any luck finding how many are over 65 in clark county.

William Robinson is term limited but if you check your info I'm sure you will find the it is his son William Robinson (Jr.) that has filed.

LOL! "Nutty Policy Regurgitation Institute".I needed that one. Thanks mred - Happy New Year!

Wow the UNLV Center for whatever thinks that everything will be OK if we can get more people to come here for entertainment! That's right in line with the LVCVA needing more money to advertise LV.

So much for economic diversity - especially from UNLV. They know who butters their bread.

That is www.theoildrum.com
Sorry!

The US consumes about 20 million Barrels of oil each DAY. We import just over 11 million barrels each day. Check out the www.EIA.doe.gov website for more info. The worldwide product of all liquids (conv. crude, NGLs,tar sand, deep water and bio fuels) has been relatively flat since 2005. But more people around the world are demanding more oil - so the price has to go up. If you think it is bad now just wait until worldwide production starts to drop!

The IEA (www.iea.org)just released their World Energy Outlook in Nov. They have now said that World Conventional Crude Oil (the good, cheap oil) peaked in its production 4 YEARS AGO and it will continue to decline.

For a great discussion about FACTS please see www.oildrum.com