Dear Bill O’Reilly: We can reduce the price of gasoline

The other night Bill O’Reilly expounded on the price of gasoline. He wants to boycott Exxon Mobil because he believes the company is charging too much for its gasoline. And besides, the company makes too much money. Nonsense. Bill, You have spun into orbit.

Peak oil – June 13

Something fishy about Saudi oil production / Suburbia’s worst enemy: Kunstler /
Brunei: time of easy, cheap oil over /
Malaysia’s leader warns tussle for energy resources may spark global crisis / Fidel Castro warns of world food crisis / Monbiot: Behind the spin, the oil giants are more dangerous than ever

Other energy – June 13

German minister: Nukes are Pandora’s box / Gazprom eyes $2B investment in Bolivia / Estimates of Ontario’s electricity reserves ‘miscalculated’ / The dirty truth about green fuel / BP’s Browne predicts oil price fall /
Mexico stands at a crossroads on energy

Peak oil – June 12

Implications of peak-oil theory for the Middle East / Is peak oil pure fiction?
/ Interview with Ran Prieur / Kossack: my peak oil op-ed / Has oil peaked? Not yet /
New edition of ‘The Oil Age’ poster

Environment – June 12

Researchers scramble to create CO2-busting technologies /
Climate warming may outrun adaptability of large mammals /
“Nukes” vs “sandals” /
If Blair can’t save the world for us, then business will / A libertarian and a scientist went out for a drive… / Elizabeth Kolbert: U.S. foot-dragging fuels global warming / Economist: Companies and climate change

Politics & economics – June 12

Thomas Friedman on “Petropolitics” / Friedman on his new movie and Big Oil / Energy in Latin America / Cyclists go naked in oil protest

Other energy – June 11

Blair signs nuclear deal with France / Railroads struggle to ship coal in U.S. / Super battery (capacitors) / Malaysians urged to change energy use patterns / Simmons report: questions about the world’s biggest NG field / Green bloggers on China

The G forces of energy insecurity

The foundation for a possible ‘Perfect Storm’ is a combination of factors that have coalesced to achieve a paradigm shift from the pre- and post-Cold War period of energy security to a new long-term era of 21st century energy insecurity. These factors are “the G Forces of Energy Insecurity”: Growth, Geology, Geopolitics, Guerrillas, Global Warming & Green Energy.