five countries already feeling peak oil

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GI30Dj01.html


The silent oil crisis

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Eritrea: The game is over
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"The usually busy streets of Asmara have almost entirely cleared of private cars as the rationing of fuel bites."
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Indonesia feels the pinch
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The Indonesian government is caught between a rock and a hard place - if it removes subsidies, there will be civil unrest, and if it doesn't, the economy suffers
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So does Philippines
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But the oil crisis is having an impact on daily life.
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The stark example of North Korea
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An article in the Seoul Times headlined "Glimpses of a hermit nation" also paints a dire picture of a country deprived of energy,
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The Cuban crisis
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Billions of dollars are said to be needed for power plants and oil to alleviate Cuba's immediate energy problems.
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Fuel poverty - a new social evil
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the article ends with:

The oil crisis gets louder - listen to it, talk about it, prepare for it - it is out there, the tide is rising and rushing toward us.


tick, tick, tick

[rockymountaindem]

1. There's a better explanation

North Korea has no oil of its own and practically no trade relations with anybody.

Eritrea is engaged in an expensive and disasterous war with Ethiopia, besides being one of the poorest and least developped countries in the world.

Cuba has no oil infrastructure because they relied on free tankers full of oil from the Soviet Union for decades and never developped a way to supply themselves.

I think, in reguards to peak oil, the largest consumers would feel the effect first, not desperately poor breakaway states and rogue nations.

[welshTerrier2]

2. another perspective ...

yes, the "largest consumers" will show significant effects ...

but even greater, and certainly earlier effects, will be seen in some of the oil producing countries ... that's what we're already seeing in Iraq, Sudan and maybe soon Venezuela and Iran ...

is there much doubt the "largest consumers" will use their imperial powers to topple governments, wage wars over oil and exploit the resources in the oil producing countries?

your point is very valid with regard to "small consuming" nations; i'm not sure it holds up well when we look at oil producing countries ...

[donsu]

3. these are not my points - these are the writer of the article's points

regardless:

these 5 countries are feeling the effects in real time