Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Government has made the call to people to appreciate the looming crisis arising out of the unabated price of oil in the world market. According to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye the country should face this challenge squarely and close ranks.
Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables / What We Don’t Eat: Revolting waste / Nigers’ crisis not simply due to swarming insects and drought / Errors found in analysis of data used to discount global warming / The Right to be Cold / Ice is not all that’s going to disappear as the climate warms / Toxic 100 Index lists top corporate air polluters / West Nile disease toll on birds soaring
Truckers stop work over fuel prices / Iran: Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott / Dangerous curves on Turkey’s energy policy / Venezuela tax agency closes Shell office / Better Ask Santa For Gasoline / China grapples with high oil prices / Oil price rise puts squeeze on UK industry / How expensive oil hurts consumers / Oil Prices, Amid Global Concerns, Surge to a Record / Euro rivals cut off UK gas pipeline / Has India sacrificed at Washington’s altar? / A Superfluous Petroleum Reserve? / June Trade Deficit Surged as Oil Price Resumed Climb / U.S. trade deficit widens on flood of Chinese textiles, oil imports
Depletion and advanced extraction techniques / W.F.Buckley: Looking ahead – oil / Coming closer to the tipping point.. / Tick Tick Tick / Reality behind the oil game / The hike in oil prices: Peak Oil or price cycle? / Will America be ready when oil supply peaks? / Peak Oil Survey
Upon first hearing about Peak Oil, a few years ago, I doubted it. “Just Big Oil propaganda to raise gas prices,” I initially thought. But the more I read about how our natural petroleum supply will reach its mid-point and then dwindle, the more convinced I became. So I got angry — at Big Oil for not informing us and at Americans for over-consuming a limited, non-renewable resource.
Supply of Oil vs the Demand for Oil.
How the small town of Willits (California) plans to beat the coming energy crisis
Chinese gasoline stations jammed as fuel crisis deepens / Ghana has 350 Million dollar energy funding gap / Indian Official: Assam oil production ‘critical’ / Explosion at BP plant near Alvin comes on heels of Texas City closing / The only way is up for oil prices, but the world will not run out in the near future / Are record oil prices leading to exploitation of oil shales? / Electrical Inefficiency A Dark Spot for China / Shell Canada Oil Sands Expansion Costs Jump 83% / U.S.: Pricier Oil Won’t Send The Economy Into A Skid / More fuel for airlines’ woes
Warming hits ‘tipping point’ – Siberia feels the heat / Stop gassing on climate change and take action / Field tested: Grasslands won’t help buffer climate change as carbon dioxide levels rise / Muckraker: Pact or fiction? – New Asia-Pacific climate pact is long on PR, short on substance / Water rights 101: Analysis / Scorched earth / The Dangers of Climate Change (AUDIO) / We Brake For Efficiency
Past the Peak – How the small town of Willits plans to beat the coming energy crisis / The Peak-Oil Crisis: A Role for the Post Office / What ‘Green’ Means / Beyond an Encyclopedia: What’s Next for Wikimania? / A Roof Garden? It’s Much More Than That / In the Cards – Brits consider radical plan to measure personal emissions / Ask Umbra: Greasing their alms, On subsidies for big oil / New Urbanism: an Online NewsHour Special Report
Kunstler – No Discipline / Introducing ASPO-USA (AUDIO) / Heinberg – Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply”- (AUDIO) / Open Letter to Senator Schumer / Review of The Long Emergency in American Scientist / The Oil Drum on numeracy / James Hamilton – Limitations of the Hirsch report on peak oil / Rate hike fears as oil prices hit new high
WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now. [satirical]
