Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It is hard to escape the sense that we are collectively fiddling while the whole planet burns. This issue of the NI tries to convey this message by strikingly different means – by gathering the work of some of the world’s greatest photographers to show the beauty of the planet we are in the process of destroying.
Oil traders closed business on Friday confident that Hurricane Katrina would hit too far to the east to affect the price of oil and natural gas.
That was before the National Hurricane Center shifted the storm’s possible path to a more westerly track that slices through the nation’s main oil artery and could result in record prices for a barrel of crude within a matter of days.
Oil’s Peak: The End May Be Nearer, It Seems / Peak Oil Debunked? / Big Gav’s Peak Energy News Roundup / WHRW Interviews Julian Darley / Jan Lundberg talks about peak oil & gas prices / James Howard Kunstler interview with Robert Birnbaum / Matt Simmons with Lou Dobbs on CNN / Green Car Congress monitors energy issues / A Peak Oil Primer / Gulf Oil Supply/Katrina Weather Map Update /
Fleet operators fret over fuel prices / Global: Globalization’s First Oil Shock / Nigeria: Petrol price jumps 50% / China takes the brakes off motoring / Prices transform oil into a weapon / A New Era for Energy / ‘I Can’t Afford My Gasoline..’ / Africa’s Oil Comes With Big Downside / Energy Prices Hit Americans on All Fronts / Gas prices too high? Try Europe / Demand for Oil Insight Is Spiking, Too
The final oil crisis has begun, silent to us, but dangerously there.
The UK could experience a shortfall in gas supplies this winter due to the rapidly declining extraction rate from North Sea indigenous reserves and the country’s inadequate gas infrastructure (based on a just-in-time delivery system from offshore fields).
Iran plans to trade oil for Euros rather than US dollars (petro-dollars). How will the US react?
Half-day Peak Oil conference to be held in Maryland September 26, featuring Kenneth Deffeyes, Richard Heinberg and Matthew Simmons.
Speakers include James Howard Kunstler, John Darnell, Ph.D., David Pimentel, Ph.D., Michael Ruppert, Andrew McKillop, David Room, Catherine Austin Fitts, Pincas Jawetz, Jenna Orkin, and Jan Lundberg.
The Economist has on its cover this week a not-so-flattering caricature of Uncle Sam and a [Chinese] dragon, both sipping down oil like there’s no tomorrow. The article is “The Oiloholics.”
Following up on the Global Peak Oil Gathering in Koblenz last year, Alexander’s Gas & Oil Connections is now organising the Future Energy Policy, a 3 day workshop and think-tank on where we need to go in the future.
Africans are struggling to cope with stubbornly high global oil prices which are forcing many to walk long distances to work or schools, go hungry as food prices skyrocket, and depend on candles to light their homes.
