Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Chavez may escalate fight with Exxon, oil producers /
As oil prices soar, talk of economic ruin subsides /
Oil price blame game misses point /
Insurgents cripple Iraq oil sector – inspector /
Oil fight in Nigeria reaches turning point
McKibben talk on PO, global warming, strategies /
Small is still beautiful /
A greener way to cut the grass runs afoul of a powerful lobby /
Extending the garden (developing world) /
Green.tv in the pink after promising launch
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and consultant Robert Hirsch spoke at a Pentagon-sponsored presentation, “Energy: a Conversation about Our National Addiction” April 24. Bartlett’s message is logical and moral: Don’t try to fulfill rising demand to cope with peak oil via supply solutions because this would mean “more greenhouse gases” and increasing our future vulnerability to a greater supply crunch. Hirsch’s “most optimistic case is an assumed crash program” when people can agree the crisis is finally here.
We get what we want from our energy slaves, it seems, without having to deal with real people in any way remotely approaching the intimate way those living with or without slavery in the pre-fossil fuel age had to.
There’s a colossal misperception that if you bike to work once a week and recycle your garbage, then global warming will be fixed up. The problem is that, even if everyone did that, the attempt to stop global warming would fail by a factor of, oh, roughly of 100.
“We may be at a point of peak oil production. You may see $100 a barrel oil in the next two or three years.”
Missing DOE report on peak oil and oil shale reappears /
Simmons: global energy war could happen over oil /
The “Hot” War: in business at the front line /
Are commodity prices threatening energy investments? /
Peak tires
What’s up with oil, gasoline prices? /
CBS: Making sense of the oil mess /
Profits, not crude oil prices or ethanol are driving pump price spike /
Proposed windfall profits tax would finance alternatives and efficiency
Venezuela: turning off the taps to U.S. /
The axis of oil: China and Venezuela /
Rebel attack threatens government in Chad /
UK protectionism threatens European gas supplies (Gazprom)
Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future /
Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could cut oil imports /
Energy news from Australia /
Gulf production: plenty of repairs still to go /
Qatar to boost oil output, plans investment abroad
The question of when oil production will peak (some analysts even say it has) is a highly uncertain one, but it can no longer be safely assumed that there is plenty more, at an affordable price. Australia must urgently assess the full extent of its oil vulnerability, across all industries and sectors. [Important editorial from one of Australia’s most influential newspapers]
Brace for $100-a-barrel oil – and the sacrifices required to put in place a national policy for energy alternatives. The world is nowhere near running out of oil soon. But there is a general agreement that it’s close to reaching peak oil production.
