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Details of an upcoming Peak Oil conference in Denver organised by a new group: ASPO USA, a non-profit, non-partisan educational association “to study, communicate, mitigate and otherwise respond to the impending Peak Oil phenomenon”.
Wind Powered Liberty / Windmills generate energy, criticism, praise / Wind farm in gorge may blow others away / New air conditioner to put electricity demand on ice / Ray of sunshine seen in energy legislation / L.A. alternative-energy fees to rise / Afghans see forests, tree by tree / How ‘Green’ Is Home Cooking? / Hot enough for you? June-July top the all-time charts for [north-east N.America] / As planet warms, storms grow stronger / Bad to the Last Drop / Australia claims part credit for “Beyond Kyoto”
ASPO August Newsletter / Oil Supplies and the “Infallible” Goddess of the Marketplace / Kuntsler on Yergin / Get ready for return of the bad ’70s / Malaysia: Cut air-conditioner usage / King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies / Long-lived the kings / Appetite for destruction
Our voracious oil consumption corrupts mideast policy / Energy Bill Raises Fears About Pollution, Fraud, Critics Point to Perks for Industry / Democrats and the energy bill / Energy bill criticized as lacking new policy / An energy policy about half right
…the global peak in oil production is likely to lead to economic chaos and extreme geopolitical tensions, raising the spectres of war, revolution, terrorism, and even famine, unless nations adopt some method of cooperatively reducing their reliance on oil. The Oil Depletion Protocol provides a way forward…
Matthew Simmons, an oil industry analyst and CEO of Simmons & Company International, will be online Thursday, August 4, at 3 p.m. ET to discuss Saudi oil supplies.
In the case of peak oil, we can intellectually accept the evidence, but we find it extremely hard to accept individual or collective responsibility for a problem of such enormity. Indeed, the most powerful evidence of our denial is the failure to even recognize that there is a moral dimension with identifiable perpetrators and victims of the crisis. We know who is at fault here, we see what they are trying to do, and we lack the efficacy and the will to do anything about it.
Times change, will attitudes? / Living with fewer resources / The battle for oil fields is a deadly game / It’s Not the End Of the Oil Age says Yergin / Indonesia’s State oil company on the brink of crisis / US Refinery Fires push Crude Above US$60 / Flood shuts down India’s largest hydro project / US Energy Bill does little to cut oil habit / The Week in Sustainable Vehicles / Uzbekistan and America’s Future Conflicts
The Second U.S. conference on “Peak Oil” and Community Solutions will be held September 23-25, 2005, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
…the peak oil Cassandras — Kunstler included — are perfectly positioned to trigger the kind of anxiety-induced focus needed to accelerate a move away from petroleum dependence.
Peak Oil is a real phenomenon, based on hard science. Ignore it at your peril. At root, the Peak Oil guys are right. How can I emphasize it properly? OK, they are “right, right, right.” Everybody else is “wrong, wrong, wrong.”
Early days in the oil fields: wildcatters, investment fever and dead horses
Wildcatting and exploration in the Canadian Maritimes — how an oil geologist and investor sees the landscape.
