Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Energy dependence in Central and Eastern Europe / Energy news from Africa / Chadians struggle despite oil wealth / Cheney discovers U.S. is losing out to China in the great oil race / Ecuador moves against US oil giant Occidental /
Chavez may price oil exports in Euros
I would encourage the New York Times to adopt an editorial policy of stating directly that our burning of fossil fuels is linked to climate change. A critical related matter is the impact of peak oil on the mix of fossil fuels being burned.
The next green revolution (bright! green!) / Special NYT section: “The Business of Green” / Biodiversity report released
Bartlett: a prophet without honor in Congress / Rep. Bartlett’s latest talk to Congress / Global oil output to peak in 2010 – Diapason / Saudi Aramco to boost oil reserves by 25% / Kunstler interview / Review of current speculative thinking on collapse
New study points to an inconvenient truth about global warming (disinformation) / Data leaks shake up carbon trade / Why aren’t Americans ‘very worried’ about the climate?
Fortune: How hedge funds, traders, and Big Oil are really driving gas prices / Greece: High time to be weaned off oil /
Indonesia: Government likely to terminate gas exports /
UK: Ex-minister hits out at nuclear
Alcoholics Unanimous Newsletter (biofuels) / Cargill, ADM differ in food-fuel debate / France’s renewed taste for wood heating /
China’s spending on renewable energy ranks world No. 1 / Denmark: Ministers want to export green cures for the energy crunch
Jeff Vail: The Great Game / Klare: Less oil, more wars / Thomas Friedman lays out his “laws of petropolitics” / The deep breath before the plunge
Just as in 1929, we now live in an economy that is living wildly beyond its means, depending on greater and greater fools to keep bidding up governments’, corporations’ and citizens’ paper wealth.
Prophecies of the future made on the basis of conventional wisdom just don’t wear very well. When I was growing up in the suburban America of the 1960s, everyone knew that by 2000 we’d have manned bases on the Moon and a Hilton hotel in orbit.
Yesterday I contrasted the attitudes of people in 1929 with their attitudes today, on the precipice of another Great Depression. I said that I believe racism, religious hatred and the distrust between economic classes was more pronounced and more overt in affluent nations in 1929 than it is today.
A grassroots effort created and refined by informed citizen activists, and not by lobbyists or politicians. It takes an unvarnished and objective look at U.S. energy policy with the single goal of achieving U.S. energy security by 2020 and U.S. energy independence by 2040. (Executive Summary, Version V)
