EV WORLD Enables Listeners to Eavesdrop on Important Peak Oil Debate

First U.S. Peak Oil Conference now available for free MP3 and iTunes download from EVWorld.Com.

Papillion, NE (PRWEB) January 16, 2006 -- Gasoline prices in the last 12 months have sharply focused consumer -- as well as Detroit's -- attention not only on more fuel efficient cars and trucks, but on the larger question of what is oil's future? While ExxonMobil's new CEO, Rex Tillerson, confidently asserts that there is plenty of oil -- both conventional and unconventional -- left to be discovered, other energy analysts and even oil company executives are less sanguine about the future prospects of petroleum.

A number of those energy experts expressed their concerns at the first annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) - USA world oil conference in Denver, Colorado. Pooling decades of oil, gas, shale and tar sands experience, their consensus is that despite government and energy industry assurances, the demand for oil, in particular, is likely to outstrip world production capacity, perhaps as early as within the next five years, as global oil reserves peak and begin their inevitable decline.

ASPO USA granted EV World (http://www.evworld.com) -- a respected Internet publication devoted to sustainable transportation and energy technologies -- permission to record the conference for its subscribers and general readers. Many of those speeches are now available to the general public for free download in MP3 audio format on EV World.

The speakers at the conference included:

Matthew Simmons, author of "Twilight in the Desert"
Thomas Petrie, co-founder Petrie Parkman & Co.
Christopher Skrebowski, Editor, Petroleum Review
Jeremy Gilbert, BP chief petroleum engineer (retired)
Henry Groppe, Founder, Groppe, Long & Little
Michael Ashar, Executive VP, Suncor USA (Tar Sands)
Roger Bezdek, Co-Author of "Hirsch Report"
Charles T. Maxwell, Weedon & Company
Steve Mut, CEO, Shell(Shale Oil unit)
Charles Hall, Distinguished Prof. of Environmental Science, SUNY

Also speaking were Maryland Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper and Colorado Congressman Mark Udall. The event was organized by Steven Andrews and Randy Udall.

In addition to EVWorld.Com, the speeches are available through Apple's iTunes service by simply pasting the following URL into iTunes window under the Advanced menu item: http://www.evworld.com/rss/futureinmotion.xml.

While EV World's primary editorial focus is on electric-drive vehicles, it also covers topics related to energy and the environment, including global warming and peak oil.

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