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The US Department of Defense (DoD) is the world’s largest purchaser of oil in the world. Even though the US military consumes a lot of oil in its overseas operations, that consumption most probably does not show up in the world oil demand.
As Peak Oil begins to surface in common discourse, we will encounter more “experts” who will offer dubious solutions that may profit them in the short run yet make us all poorer.
Enforced relocalization is a likely prospect during energy descent. Preparing for conflict during relocalization deserves more attention.
Following a severe reduction in oil supplies and the implosion of the Irish development bubble, there will be a wide range of distress sale, stranded assets up for grabs at knock down prices.
Crazy scenarios involving Iran’s purported attempts to create an oil bourse to start selling oil in euros make the rounds regularly. These things WILL NOT HAPPEN. So let me explain why an Iranian oil bourse will not work for the foreseeable future.
The governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, says he can turn the billions of tons of coal under his state into enough diesel fuel to greatly reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. Schweitzer speaks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl this Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It was really a crash"… A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid, up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba dropped by a third.
Environmentalist David Orr on peak oil, climate change and our response to them /
Heinberg and experts debate fall in oil production /
Beyond Peak Oil scenario competition /
Matt Simmons speech /
Author William Clark speaks on Washington-Teheran tensions
Japan utilities eye summer oil as LNG hits records /
World has bigger oil worries than size of reserves /
Microorganisms key to ethanol production /
HighCountry special issue on energy /
Bush admits to ‘mixed signals’ on renewable energy lab /
Alaska, energy firms agree on pipeline /
UK: We’re in for nasty weather – and no gas
Oil jumps after attempted attack on Saudi processing plant /
Shell told to pay Nigeria $1.5bn /
Niger Delta crisis affecting crude oil prices and supplies /
Will fight for oil (Ted Koppel maintains oil drives foreign policy) /
Ports & petrodollars /
Killing the Iranian oil bourse story
The time has come at TransitionCulture to address one of the less palatable but, I think, more fascinating aspects of this whole energy descent business. What happens when it becomes too costly, unfeasible or, due to sudden disruptions to our energy supplies, impossible, to run our mains sewage system?
Over the past several months, the normally restrained voice of science has taken on a distinct note of panic when it comes to global warming.
