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After you discover oil, you can only produce it out of the ground one time… You have depleted the pores of the rocks, emptying them of the oil and gas that were formerly contained within. There is no “inflation” when it comes to the supply of oil. There is only depletion.
Energy Bulletin is having a short vacation for the next week, and will be posting irregularly. In the meantime, check out some of the other websites with energy news.
While al Husseini’s comments about when peak oil might hit us are more optimistic than those of ASPO-Ireland and a host of others, they certainly strike a vastly more realistic chord than the typical fare from Saudi Aramco press releases and presentations.
Solid roundup that manages to sneak in a mention of oil depletion; worth reading if only for the quote from Tony Radich of the US Dept. Energy, told The Business: “It looks like ethanol is going to be the biggest alternative fuel. We’ve got a long way to go on hydrogen. …”
The world is quickly being split into two hostile camps: those with cars, and those without. Nowhere is this division more apparent than in this city of 14 million people, where cars push bicycles onto the sidewalk and people up against the wall.
With global oil reserves set to run out within decades, governments must act now to avoid an energy crisis of indescribable proportions.
Secret report reveals catalogue of blunders at Sellafield / Today’s “Mega-cities” are Overcrowded and Environmentally Stressed / Study: Sun’s Changes to Blame for Part of Global Warming / Melting Planet / Drastic Climate Change Affects Germany
High time for a single GCC currency / Russian oil producers to freeze gasoline prices until year-end / Fueled again / Rupiah ills and oil costs eat into Indofood profits / Was Jimmy Carter right? / Being President in an Age of Limits
GOM oil infrastructure update / Is this post rigged, or Information on Oil Platforms / Kunstler on Financial Sense Online / Facing up to the coming energy crisis
Things to come: part I / Willits Economic Localization website / Why isn’t energy conservation a higher priority? / EU Parliament calls for renewables targets to be set at 20% / Doing the Hybrid Math / Chard on the Green? S.F. in a post-oil future / Green Glass – Window Treatments Help Clear the Air
When I learned of Peak Oil a few months ago, it was all very familiar… As in Tolkien’s book, the world as we know is coming to an end, for better or worse. Within my lifetime, what is left of it, most of what I have grown to know, if not love, will pass away, forever.
Heinberg and Staniford / The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett’s Conference / Triple J Radio Australia covers peak oil / Jack Zagar on Saudi oil production and peak / A Nice Counterexample [of Hubbert Linearization] / Organizing Ecological Revolution / Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drives it back into steam age / The Five Minute Guide: Oil
