Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil Transparency at Risk From Major State Companies / UK: Firms could shut in gas shortage / Rita’s Revelation / Taking a turn for the better – or directional drilling again / Iraqi oil output forecast is bleak, ex-official says / Baghdad in the dark as power cuts continue to blight the city / Cheap As Chips: the Other Oil / Volvo launches world’s first CO2-free automotive plant
Hurricane Rita has caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in history and will force companies to delay drilling for oil in the US and as far away as the Middle East, initial damage assessments show
Dr Doom? / Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference / Five percent and Twenty Five percent / Denver World Oil Conference Nov 10-11 / The Courage to be right and alone Richard Russell on Oil / Volvo: peak by 2015
Rob Hopkins talks us through how he helped turn one small town onto the problem of Peak Oil, and how together they created a profoundly positive and practical community plan to deal with it.
American society must abandon the notion that science will provide clear-cut answers about the environment and climate change and learn to make policy decisions based on research trends and probabilities rather than absolute conclusions, [said Andrew Revkin,] New York Times science writer.
Matthew Simmons and James Kunstler are coming to Dallas November 1 to share their vision of oil’s future and how we can adapt and plan for a new era of energy use and sustainable development.
Bush prepared to tap oil reserve /
Bush urges conservation as retail gas prices rise /
Oil rise sparks concern at IMF /
Politicians fuel consumption by suspending gas taxes /
Oil bubble set to burst? /
Storms cast spotlight on energy’s new reality /
Foes of a proposed gas terminal vow to fight /
Protest stalls energy giant in rural Ireland /
Canada: High oil, high dollar and Dutch disease /
Legislators attack gas gougers /
Energy policies left in ruins; major opinion shift /
Bush’s Operation Offset
Natural gas woes bigger than crude oil /
Business braces for dramatic hikes in NG bills /
Drive less, if you can /
Food security limits China’s biofuels /
French grain & beets for ethanol surging /
China to spend $17B on 6 hyrdro plants /
Nuclear plants planned for US Gulf states /
China: Reactors? We’ll take thirty, please /
Tim Flannery on a nuclear future /
Flannery on geothermal
Report on Ohio Peak Oil conference /
End of cheap oil; rising gas prices only the beginning /
Gas crisis not a big surprise /
Kunstler on Rita (2) /
NPR: Energy policy for a gas-guzzling nation /
German PO site /
Spanish-language PO site
No one knows how much is left, but humankind can’t wait any longer before coming up with alternatives…I have now read 4,000 pages of reports on global oil supply, and I know less about it than I did before I started. The only firm conclusion I have reached is that the people sitting on the world’s reserves are liars.
Saudis warn region is on the brink of war / Nigerian militia leader urges calm / The growing cost of growing wheat(2) / High prices not only at the pump / Linda McQuaig interview:It’s the Crude Dude / Ford CEO wants energy summit / In Niger, hungry are fed, but farmers may starve / The New Energy Crisis [satire]
Good discussion of the dominant worldview in America and some sobering ideas of where we might be headed, and how it may be the best thing for us.
