Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 8 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

‘Prepare for when oil runs out’ :Senator Ramchand / Globalisation is an anomaly
and its time is running out / Dirty Oil: the West’s Saviour, the Greens’ Worst Nightmare / Viva Venezuela: Chavez and that great northern sucking sound /
Japanese company plans waste plastics-to-oil plant in China / Face climate reality, BP chief says / Chiapas Closes Mexico Oil Well / Nuclear energy can’t solve global warming
Other remedies 7 times more beneficial /

USAF fuel costs blowout cuts weapons research funding

Amy Butler, Aviation Week and Space Technology

The Pentagon is discovering it’s not immune from the high gas prices that have overwhelmed taxpayers’ checkbooks and dampened summer
travel plans across the U.S.
Defense Dept. planners are now estimating fuel costs may add as much as $4 billion to what was already expected to bc a shortfall of nearly $6 billion in Fiscal 2007 and each year following. This nearly doubles the predicted annual deficit of about $10 billion.

Big Oil warns of coming energy crunch

International oil companies have advertising campaigns warning that the world is running out of oil and calling on the public to help the industry do something about it.
Most of the executives ofThe world’s five largest energy groups generally maintain that oil projects are viable with the price at which they test a project’s viability is within the around $20 a barrel. range. But their advertising and some of their companies’ own statistics appear to tell a different story.

The Twilight Era of Petroleum

Several recent developments — persistently high gasoline prices, unprecedented warnings from the Secretary of Energy and the major oil companies, China’s brief pursuit of the American Unocal Corporation — suggest that we are just about to enter the Twilight Era of Petroleum, a time of chronic energy shortages and economic stagnation as well as recurring crisis and conflict.

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 8 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

The crystal ball, though murky, is not empty / A half-truth is still a lie / Transcript of Matt Simmons online interview / US targets oil in Africa / Pemex spending on exploration rising, but infrastructure probs catching up / Kerr-McGee to exit North Sea / Howard seizes Northern Territory uranium / Why America Is More Dependent Than Ever on Saudi Arabia / Arab oil producers to increase production: OAPEC / Opec production level hits 26-year high / EU offering to back Iran as major oil route -France / Prices push out premium gasoline / Now anybody can bet on gas prices / Airlines add routes to where the oil is

Fuel’s gold – Turning corn into ethanol may not be worth it

Richard A. Lovett, San Diego Union-Tribune (US)

Most people would agree that the United States needs a new source of fuel: something renewable and nonpolluting with which to replace gasoline … something that could be produced right here at home. Deep in America’s heartland, a lot of people think they know the answer: ethanol, a fuel made from fermented corn.

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 5 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Y2K versus Peak Oil / Peak Oil Jobs No.3 The eBay Seller / US Govt Sponsored Peak Oil (Hirsch) Report Draws Disturbing Conclusions / Uncle Sam’s asleep at the wheel / Nicaragua Trapped in Energy Crisis / In land of bicycle, car boom brings freedom of open road / Energy Bill makes bad energy outlook worse: Cleanpeace.org / China sees 2005 crude oil demand up 6pct / ‘Iran needs foreign firms to stop oil depletion’ / Chap.11 likely for Northwest, Delta airlines

Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 4 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

The Next Petroleum / Food – Origin unknown / Organic farms ‘best for wildlife’ / The Trouble with Organics / Editorial: Hybrid hypocrisy / Garbageland – Elizabeth Royte / Greening the National Map / Petrol price hike fuels small car sales / Climate change draws senators north to Alaska / ‘Strange things’ along Pacific Coast waters / In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters / Rolling back Iceland’s big desert

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 4 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

National Oil Firms Take Bigger Role / Drilling for Broke? Experts Debate ‘Peak Oil’ / Oil depletions are not created equal / The Four Great Challenges / Leadership, Activism, Mancur Olson, Groups, Localism, and Conferences / Public Peak Oil debate in Canberra / Delighting in Energy Poverty / Chinese ministry estimates crude import needs at 130 million tonnes / Oil at heart of renewed UAE-Saudi border dispute / Washington opposition forces Chinese to withdraw oil offer / CNOOC Withdraws $18.5-Billion Bid for Unocal / Oil politics may not dissipate: China-U.S. relations further strained / Don’t rock the boat with fuel rise, plea

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 3 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin.net

The Oil Depletion Protocol / Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century (Part 2 of 3) / EIA’s Cook Sees Stronger Oil Demand Than Data Show / Saudi Arabia and Oil – Simmons on CBC Radio / Simmons in Arab press / New energy probe may harm sea life / Competitors To Nuclear: Eat My Dust / “Petroleum bourse to become reality” / Death of a king / Experts: U.S., China Have Much at Stake / US Still Too Reliant on Middle East Oil / If You Could Have Written the Energy Bill…

Book Review: Blackout by James Goodman

On August 14th 2003, New York City lost power citywide for the first time since 1977. To everyone’s collective surprise, nothing happened. No looting, rioting, arson or massive destruction of private property. On July 13th 1977, a different story emerged.