• Shortfall could reach 10m barrels a day, report says • Cost of crude oil is predicted to top $100 a barrel [caption id="attachment_5696" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Surplus oil production capacity could disappear by 2012 a report from US Joint Forces Command, says. Photograph: Katja Buchholz/Getty Images"][/caption] The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.
by Jeff T. I am the leader of a band of 8-to-12 looters. I have some basic military training. We move from place to place like locusts devouring everything in our path. My group is armed with light weapons and can develop and follow simple plans of attack. We take what we want by force of arms. We prefer none of our victims survive because that could cause problems for us in the future. It has been six months since the grid went down. You and the other five members of your party have settled into what may be a long grinding ...
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Reports of a crazy climber on Mount McKinley in late June moved up the mountain faster than the man himself, but National Park Service rangers at the 14,200-foot camp weren’t quite sure what to think. North America’s highest peak every year attracts more than a few people who might be considered, for lack of better words, “a little different.”
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Kyle Eisenbach, Kimi Elliott and Tyler Nord survived an encounter with a grizzly bear on the Resurrection Pass Trail Tuesday. Nord shows off a puncture wound on his thigh, suffered when the bear jumped on him.
Editor’s note: Tyler Nord moved to Anchorage from Portland, Ore., two years ago to work as an engineer at CRW Engineering Group. On Tuesday, Nord was planning on a relaxing bike ride on the Resurrection Pass Trail with his fiancée Kimi Elliott, his old friend Kyle Eisenbach — visiting from Portland — and his dog Kobi, but a mama grizzly bear had a different plan. Below is the whole story, including the bear’s first charge and the decisive pepper spray defense, as told by Nord himself.
We started in Hope and were six miles in on the Resurrection Pass Trail. Kimi was in front with Kobi right behind her, followed by Kyle and myself. We were rounding a corner, and as I looked up Kimi was heading back our way. Ahead of us on the trail were a grizzly bear mama and her two cubs.
Mama started to charge us, and as she was running at us Kobi charged her, barking and growling up a storm. The bear stopped charging and was growling at Kobi, who was holding his ground several feet away. After a few seconds the bear went after Kobi, and he bolted around her and into the bushes, heading away from us. Mama chased, which gave us a few extra seconds of getaway time.
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