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Congressional Record—House H945 March 14, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H945 DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—COMPARISON OF CURRENT LEVEL WITH APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 302(a) ALLOCATION AND APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE 302(b) SUBALLOCATIONS—Continued [In millions of dollars] 302(b) suballocations as of No- Current level reflecting action Current level minus suballoca- Appropriations Subcommittee vember 2, 2005 (H. Rpt. 109–264) completed as of January 27, 2006 tions BA OT BA OT BA OT Foreign Operations .............................................................................................................................................................................. 20,937 25,080 20,937 25,213 0 133 Homeland Security .............................................................................................................................................................................. 30,846 33,233 30,846 33,184 0 ¥49 Interior-Environment ............................................................................................................................................................................ 26,159 27,500 26,159 28,760 0 1,260 Labor, HHS & Education ..................................................................................................................................................................... 142,514 143,802 142,514 143,848 0 46 Legislative Branch .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3,804 3,804 3,804 3,809 0 5 Military Quality of Life-Veterans Affairs ............................................................................................................................................. 44,143 81,634 44,143 41,803 0 ¥39,831 Science-State-Justice-Commerce ........................................................................................................................................................ 57,854 58,856 57,854 58,537 0 ¥319 Transportation-Treasury-HUD-Judiciary-DC ......................................................................................................................................... 65,900 120,837 66,518 121,433 618 596 Unassigned .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 0 430 0 0 0 ¥430 Total (Section 302(a) Allocation) .......................................................................................................................................... 843,020 916,836 833,432 912,162 ¥9,588 ¥4,674 PEAK OIL PRODUCTION oil up to that time in 1956 and how b 2000 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under much oil he thought that the United I just want to show one chart here. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- States would find and, therefore, when Then I will introduce my colleague, uary 4, 2005, the gentleman from Mary- we would peak in oil production. and I will read a little paragraph from land (Mr. BARTLETT) is recognized for He was able to do this, Mr. Speaker, a recent report before doing that. 60 minutes as the designee of the ma- because he had watched the exploi- This is the curve that M. King jority leader. tation and exhaustion of individual oil Hubbert predicted in this article, re- Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. fields, and he found that they all fol- printed here from 50 years ago, an arti- Speaker, this is a historic event for me lowed a very similar pattern. The oil cle and a speech. The smooth green personally because it was just one year production increased until it reached a curve here was his prediction. The larg- ago this date that I first came to this maximum. That maximum production er symbols, where the actual data floor to talk about the subject of peak was, for most fields, about the halfway points, and you see that right on tar- oil. As a matter of fact, that subject point of all the oil that you would get get, we peaked in about 1970. was so new that when we were pre- out of the field. And after reaching The red curve is the Soviet Union. paring to give that first talk, we were that maximum, no matter how vigor- They had a bit more oil than we. They debating should we talk about the ously you pumped that field, the pro- peaked a little bit after us. Then they great rollover or should we talk about duction fell off steadily until at the kind of fell apart when the Soviet peak oil. end of the exhaustion of the field it Union dissolved, and they did not reach The great rollover refers to that peak reached a zero. And he theorized that if their potential. There will be a second of the curve when it rolls over and you he knew how many individual fields little peak now, but they are nowhere start down the other side of that con- there were in the United States, he near their former peak. They reached sumption curve, which is the avail- could predict when the United States peak oil some time ago. ability curve of oil. We finally decided would peak in oil discovery. Mr. Speaker, in fact, I think 33 of the that the proper designation to use was This is a long paper with a lot of 45 countries in the world that produce ‘‘peak oil,’’ and I guess that most other math in it. This wasn’t just some intel- oil have already passed their peak. people who are talking about this sub- ligent guesses from looking at the Many others are at their peak or rap- ject have decided the same thing, be- data. He did a lot of mathematical idly approaching it. cause in this year, Mr. Speaker, just analysis. Here is one of his graphs, for I want to read briefly from a new about everybody is talking about peak instance; and we have a larger one that study, and this is one of the two really oil. we will show you in a minute. But this interesting things that have happened We looked at the statistics for last graph shows that he expected a peak in the past year. One was a study by year and found that oil has increased about 1970. That was 14 years after he SAIC funded by the Department of En- about $10 a barrel, about 52 or 53 last made this prediction. ergy. I have some charts in a few mo- year, 62 or 63 this year. Gasoline, I ments that I will show, some of the So this tonight for me is a historic think, was about $2.05 last year. Now it comments that they made. There is an- event because it is 1 year since I gave is up and down a little, but $2.35, $2.45. other study that has just come out. Al- the first speech here on this subject. Local stations where I live it is now though this is not a brand-new study, Since then I have given nine others. $2.45. the date on this study is September This will be the 10th since then and the A couple of very interesting things 2005. This is dated September 2005; but 11th overall. have happened in this last year. Oh, I for some reason, it has not been re- have another document here, Mr. About the time I started this, 30 leased from the Pentagon. Speaker, which is about another very prominent members of our society, and This was done by the U.S. Army historic event; and it was 50 years ago, let me put up a chart that shows that Corps of Engineers, and I am going to the 8th of this month, and I am sorry here for just a moment and then we read from it a little later. Ordinarily, I that I didn’t know that date last year will come back to two things that have don’t read, but I haven’t had time to or I would have tried to do my first happened in this year, which are really make charts of this. I think this is so Special Order on peak oil on the 8th of very interesting. interesting and so startling, and it just March, because it was just 50 years ago These numbers encouraged 30 promi- came out. Yesterday, I think, may on the 8th of March that M. King nent members of our society, including have been the first day; and for most Hubbert gave his very famous talk at Boyden Gray and McFarland and Jim people today, this was the first day the spring meeting of the Southern Woolsey and Frank Gaffney and 26 oth- they could get a hold of it. District of the Division of Production ers, a number of retired four-star admi- Mr. Speaker, let me read you some- of the American Petroleum Institute, rals and generals, to write a letter to thing, from that article and this will Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. And the President saying, Mr. President, introduce my colleague, WAYNE this was a startling article. It is now the fact that we have only 2 percent of GILCHREST, who said he would be happy very historic. This was in 1956. the world’s oil reserves and we con- to come down and join me in this talk, In that speech, he predicted that the sume 25 percent of the world’s oil, and if he could talk about global warming. United States would peak in its oil import about two-thirds of what we I said, WAYNE, that is exactly what the consumption in about 1970. He did that use, is a totally unacceptable national Corps of Engineers was talking about. with words. He did that with graphs, security risk; and, Mr. President, we Let me read what they said here: and he showed the graphs of the use of have to do something about that. ‘‘Worldwide consumption of fossil fuels VerDate Aug 31 2005 07:24 Mar 15, 2006 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14MR7.080 H14MRPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC62 with HOUSE H946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 14, 2006 and its coincident and environmental Over the winter season, they pro- latter part of the Industrial Revolu- impact continues to grow.’’ The duced two crops of corn so that we tion, human beings and their activities Earth’s endowment of natural re- would have enough seed so that we are a geologic force, because we are sources are depleting at an alarming could do the planting in this country, putting into the atmosphere in decades rate, exponentially faster than the bio- but still the seed was somewhat scarce what it took the natural forces mil- sphere’s ability to replenish them.
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