Peak Oil – Aug 22
Skrebowski in Australia: Petrol $2/l by Christmas /
New blog: Peak Oil Blues /
David Holmgren interview on the Heinberg-Holmgren speaking tour of Australia /
Peak Confidence /
Peak Oil Passnotes: Supply ‘Cushionitis’
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 22
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
Biofuels – Aug 22
Interview: Robert Rapier on Vinod Khosla, Proposition 87, peak oil, and the need for transportation electrification / Indonesia counting on biofuel / Brazil’s road to energy independence /
Balkan biofuel could be on the horizon
The missing repertoire
The IPPR report presented a textual analysis of the kinds of language (‘repertoires’) used in the media when discussing climate… But there is a huge missing category… [t]hat category is the straight ‘It’s serious (and interesting) but don’t panic’ repertoire.
Oil industry – Aug 22
Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans
Climate change policy – Aug 22
Leading Canada Liberal proposes carbon tax /
Interview: Nancy Skinner, U.S. Director, The Climate Group / Limiting climate change: the neglected obstacle
Geopolitics – Aug 22
Energy crisis – the culprit is national oil companies & socialism [Not!] / Sino-Cuba energy relations raise concern in Washington /
Russian pipeline monopoly warns Lithuanian refinery of long shutoff / Bolivia suspends a takeover of oil and gas / Japan and China race for African oil
Cuba’s pathbreaking energy policies
As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. The lesson to be learned from these two Communist states is change or die. [Former Washington Post columnist von Hoffman jumps on the peak oil bandwagon.]
Economics – Aug 21
Ford Is Slashing Production 20% for 4th Quarter /
Wal-Mart Posts First Profit Decline in a Decade /
Australia: Brace yourselves, warns Treasurer /
Meacher: Now America goes cap in hand, as Britain once did /
The eurozone cannot decouple from US recession
Katrina, global warming & peak oil
You might say that if fossil fuels are a big, thick steak, then renewables like ethanol are an arugula side salad with low-cal dressing. The salad is better for your health and lighter on the land, but it’s not going to fill your belly.
Net Oil Exports Revisited
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
Real men don’t go vroom
The Tesla would show the world that electric cars were definitely not dead yet. In fact the Tesla might well be the death knell of the combustion engine itself.
