Vale Dave Kilsby

Biography

The David Kilsby, the founder of ASPO-Sydney. He was a very skilled urban and transport planner aware of the serious implications of Peak Oil. He compiled the ASPO-Australia Urban and Transport Planning Working Group submission to the 2006 Senate Inquiry and appeared in person with Ali Samsam Bakhtiari in Sydney. (Hansard report) He also prepared the Cairns Oil Vulnerability Report for Queensland Transport in 2007. He had been handicapped in recent years by a degenerative neurological disease. David's CV and his website with copies of a lot of Peak Oil papers and others. 

Research Interest

ASPO-Australia updates its Peak Oil Summary from time to time. Australia’s serious oil vulnerability greatly strengthens the case for fuel excise indexation The proposed indexation is a crucial first step, but in addition we should go much further. Australia should follow the lead of a past UK Conservative Government and increase fuel excise on a fuel-tax escalator by CPI plus 5% or so.