$3 Gallon Gasoline? Time to Consider the Alternative: The Garage Filling Station (GFS)
With gasoline nearly $3 gallon, there needs to be a mainstream discussion of the alternatives.
The Rimini Protocol: an oil depletion protocol
Dr Colin Campbell’s ASPO Ireland is working on encouraging action on peak oil through the Rimini Protocol. The oil depletion protocol was first proposed at the 2003 Pio Manzu Conference and will be the central theme of the next Pio Manzu Conference, Rimini, Italy on October 28-30 2005.
Peak Oil Headlines – 17 August, 2005
‘Peak oil’ issue piques interest / Energy deficit grows, solutions wither / Running out of options / E.N.Luttwak: The world isn’t short of oil – and the price will go down, not up / Jan Lundberg’s new website, new PO essays / E&E News – daily energy and environment news
Politics and Economics Headlines – 17 August, 2005
Wal-Mart blames gas prices for soft sales, worries about outlook / As gasoline prices rise, businesses get creative / Gas prices pump up carpools / Gas Prices: Up, Up and Away / Fuel Rule Change for Big S.U.V.’s Seen as Unlikely / Citizen Journalist: Pinched at the pump
Politics and Economics Headlines – 16 August, 2005
Rising gasoline prices? Terrific! Let’s raise them some more / Judge Bars New Coastal Oil Drilling / End the drilling delusion / What is the US Military Doing in Paraguay? / Thanks to BC Libs, Texans control our gas profits, and supply / BHP Billiton buys California’s best for LNG push / High gas prices fuel fear of financial hardship
First Peak-Oil Novel Published in U.S.!
“After the Crash: An Essay-Novel of the Post-Hydrocarbon Age,” is now available in print-on-demand format
Environment Headlines – 16 August, 2005
Living Large, by Design, in the Middle of Nowhere / Permafrost is warming / Icy Greenland turns green / Error may have hidden warming / Ecologist: tropical life to be hardest hit by global warming
Peak Oil Headlines – 16 August, 2005
What keeps driving oil prices higher? (Q and As) / Steven Roach hedges, warns / Why is petrocollapse imminent? / Peak Oil group in Portland, Oregon / The Week in Sustainable Vehicles / The Oil Price to Be Scared Of / Energy myths and illusions
Sustainability Headlines – 16 August, 2005
Why We Pay Too Little for Well Travelled Food / Depopulation — myth or reality? / Eco-Friendly Burial Sites Give a Chance to Be Green Forever / We Wuz Rob’d! – Rob Elam, biodiesel buff, answers Grist’s questions / Philipines: Senate roused to pass energy-saving bills / Experimental hybrid cars get up to 250 mpg / California’s leap towards Kyoto should reap rewards
Carless days not the solution to Peak Oil problem
“The Greens believe we need to have the mechanisms in place to deal with both a short-term emergency, such as this report envisions, and Peak Oil, where we are facing steadily rising prices over the long term and eventual shortages no matter what the price,” [Green Co-Leader] Ms Fitzsimons says.
Yemen – wood stoves booming on cooking gas hikes
The government’s recent move of raising prices of cooking gas has led the people in the countryside to resort to using wood for baking bread in their clay oven. … An owner of a shop in Ibb selling clay ovens used for baking bread said he was nowadays selling two to three ovens a day while before the new rise in prices of oil products he was not selling that number in a week.
Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism
In 1876, Marx’s collaborator, Frederich Engels, offered a prophetic caveat: “Let us not… flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human conquest over nature. For each such conquest takes its revenge on us.”
