Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A wholly predictable energy crisis looms / OPEC secy gen: $60 oil too high, but likes $40-$50 / Natural gas depletion and what it will mean this winter / Brazil government pushes for Chinese backed dam / Row is all Bush’s fault, Chavez tells Mexico / Profile of Bolivia’s Evo Morales / Exxon and the World Bank developing enemies in Cameroon
No silver bullet for oil in crisis / Peak Oil, Energy Futures and Violent Conflict / Oleocene: se préparer au Pic Pétrolier / Do senators really hate oil price manipulation? / Weekend roundup
In the decades ahead, we do not know precisely when, we shall reach a point, a plateau or peak, beyond which we shall be unable further to increase production of conventional oil worldwide. We need to understand that problem now and to begin to prepare for that transition.
There are at least seven major reasons why dependence on petroleum and its products for the lion’s share of the world’s transportation fuel creates special dangers in our time.
Venezuela to sell cheap oil to U.S. poor /
Qatar, US launch huge LNG project in strategic alliance /
Review of oil movie Syriana /
Opec set to lift secrecy about oil production /
Big Oil’s greed exacts an awful toll for profits /
Pacific islands scramble to cushion skyrocketing world fuel prices /
Saudi Arabia asks for “road map” of oil demand
Nation warms up to coal /
Australia pioneers energy From hot rocks /
EIA wind intermittancy – chipping away at the doubters /
Gas fields also deplete, but faster
US senators demand oil execs re-testify, under oath /
Toiling in a Dickensian hell – the miners who fuel China /
State of the American republic /
Supply fears amid NG price surge in UK /
Are we there yet? Prospect of $100 oil /
Syriana – movie on global oil /
Shell’s strategy to fuel the future /
Understanding the oil patch /
Syria and the oil shortage
Global warming, global health, global ethics /
India unlikely to agree to Kyoto emission caps /
Climate change threatens world fish stocks, WWF says /
Ted Glick on the Climate Crisis day of action, Dec 3 /
Comedian Larry David: making global warming funny /
Fly the eco-friendly skies /
Sequestration and oil production
Urban permaculture /
Dorm room showcases eco-friendly living /
Basel and the 2000 Watt Society /
Electric cars get another jolt of interest /
Gas prices push some to torch their SUVs /
Julian Darley and The Relocalization Movement
Synthesizing the Power Points on PO /
Full throttle decline rates? /
Alaska seminar on declining oil /
Robert Hirsch: “Peak oil bell curve has a sharp crest, and you can’t see it coming” /
World at tipping point /
“Real oil crisis” on Australian TV Nov 24
Petrodollars greater than ever before / Sinopec, CNPC Said to Buy Sudan Oil Block / China-Japan oil rivalry spills into Africa / Nigerian militia leader wants foriegn oil Co.’s out / Iran makes progresss with ‘Energy for peace’ / North Sea oil output fall hits non-Opec growth / Australian farmers told will suffer for avoiding Kyoto protocol / ‘Don’t worry’ line on petrol price isn’t sinking in
Exxon, and the Implications of 8% / ‘Black Gold’ strikes Big Oil ‘nerve’ / Connecticut energy conference – danger of ‘No more Oreo’s for anyone’ / Oil Storm’s aftermath / NZ Greens co-leader on the peak oil toolbox / US Rep. Bartlett in Congress on the Hirsch Report / Report on forum in Albany, NY / Eric Olson on peak oil
