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.

New group: ASPO-USA

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”.

Sustainability & Environment Headlines – 2 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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”

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 2 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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 Denial of Peak Oil

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.

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 1 August, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

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