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 Matthews, 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 Storyâ€, and investment specialists Jim Puplava, Jim Hansen and Atticus Lowe on “Investing in the new Energy Economyâ€. The day will conclude with a Social Reception and an evening presentation by Peter Wells (NEFTEX): The Oil Story in Iran and Iraq. 

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Two full days of plenary sessions, on Monday, Sept. 22 ("Demand, Meet Supply") and Tuesday, Sept. 23 ("Where Now? Choices for the Long Haul"), 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 Newshour; geologists Ken Verosub and Gill Mull will assess Petroleum 101, and Alaskan Oil: Prudoe Bay Discovery and Outlook for North Slope Oil; Matt Simmons, Jeremy Gilbert and Morey Wolfson will discuss Peak Oil global overview - an American wakeup call, Big Oil and Resource Nationalism; and Jeff Rubin and Herman Franssen will examine the economic impacts of $100+ and €70 Crude Oil. 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.)

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. The day will conclude with our final Social Reception and a special evening speaker.

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 against CERA made by a group of prominent peak oil watchers. They bet that CERA's rosy production estimates were wrong, and they had a $100K letter of credit to prove they were serious.

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

2008 Sacramento Peak Oil Conference
September 21-23, 2008
Hyatt Regency Sacramento, California
http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/
Registration:  http://www.regonline.com/aspousa4