Peak Oil – Peak Economics
The Community Solution examines the impact of Peak Oil on the world economic structure, one built on the confidence in ever-expanding markets fueled by technology, itself fueled by oil.
How oil is changing the world
The world’s thirst is not sustainable as experts predict an imminent decline and fall in oil production. In this seven-day series, the Globe investigates what awaits the world as the reserves dry up.
Ed: BIGGEST COVERAGE OF PEAK OIL YET in a mainstream publication. More than a dozen articles appear on the first day of the series.
Energy Headlines – May 21, 2005
Owner of oldest commercial oil field believes in Peak Oil / UK ‘Peak Oil’ website passes landmark / New Energy Currents – an overview / Global warming in the New Yorker, part 3 / The Lessons of Easter Island / History shows that true innovation has disappeared from our society / 2,000 more wind turbines in UK countryside / Tilting at windmills: nation split over energy eyesores
Energy Headlines – May 20, 2005
The 5 steps in the future energy system must include amplification / Congress touts ’green energy,’ but bill is black and blue / Greenspan: Oil supplies to grow / U.N. report says biodiversity on decline / ** Biofuels special ** / Like Easter Island, only with cars / The rape of the rainforest… and the man behind it / Brazil’s backing biodiesel / From rainforest to biodiesel / Alternative fuels – promises and perils / Wind farms ‘must take root in UK’ / Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers readers’ questions / A green(er) IT / Reader asks about connection between PO and biodiversity
Oil, Jihad and Destiny: Will declining oil production plunge our planet into a Depression?
Since neither production nor consumption have historically followed a smooth curve – up or down – and since there is an economic interaction between demand, consumption and production, we should expect the peak of consumption to be characterized by a series of alternating cycles. Periods of shortage will be separated by periods of surplus. [Chapters 1 and 2 of Ronald Cooke’s Oil, Jihad and Destiny]
Energy Headlines – May 19, 2005
On the road with Heinberg in South Africa / Apollo Energy Act contrasts sharply with “Jurassic” GOP energy bill / Bolivians reject gas laws / A Castro ally with oil cash vexes the US / Saudi ‘could double oil output’ / Economic Tsunami: Coming Sooner Than You Think / They Really Are Watching You / Crises, survivalism and the rural life
Reversing the Polarity – Bretton Woods revisited?
… The requirement is therefore for an Energy “Clearing Union” comprising all market participant constituencies whether producers, consumers or intermediaries, constituted as an “International Energy Trade Association” (“IETA”) and served by a consortium of providers of services such as communications, technology, risk management and so on.
Energy Headlines – May 18, 2005
McKillop: Amoco’s magic curve / How to ease yourself across the oil peak / Senators seek bipartisan energy bill / Scharzenegger weighs in on federal energy bill / California: importing power, fostering pollution / Latin states seek more control of oil / Foreign gas companies in Bolivia face higher taxes / Bolivia erupts / China: Danger of melting Everest glaciers / Julian Darley and Celine Rich interviewed / Global wind map may provide better locations for wind farms / City folk support farmers through CSAs / Small family farms ‘may vanish’ in UK / Organic farming pioneer dies / Vegetable puppets fight back against industrial agriculture
Energy Headlines – May 17, 2005
CS Monitor reviews Deffeyes / McKillop: Shift to the Euro would lock-in higher oil prices / PO Conference in Sweden May 23 / Review of “The Long Emergency” / How a clever world could self-destruct / Energy is behind troubles in Uzbekistan / … in Bolivia / … in Ecuador / Australia and East Timor / Arctic oil search moves to new turf, new controversies / Oil and Gas drilling could contaminate precious aquifers / Scotland nuclear safety failures revealed / Ultra-clean coal / Saudi oil minister comments on oil supply / North Sea oil production continues decline / IEA: World oil demand growth slows / China: ignore its
oil thirst at your own peril / UK City hedge funds head for domino collapse / A Higher Power Informs the Republican Assault on the Environment / US Rejects Airline Climate Taxes, EU Considers / How almost everyone in Kerala learned to read / Kudzu root extract may curb excess drinking
U.S. places large bet on pipeline
American-backed plans to build a nearly 1,100-mile-long oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean are about to go from what skeptics once called a “pipe dream” to a reality.
Laherrère: Peak in 2008
A critical evaluation of M. King Hubbert and a projection of 2008 as the year of Peak Oil in this confernence paper by Jean Laherrère.
Energy Headlines – May 16, 2005
Viridian Greens confront Kunstler / What’s on the other side of the Hubbert Curve? / Alien American dream changes the Earth as some of us awaken / Bush urges development of alternate fuels /
Oil giants gambling on “green” fuel / Old foes soften to nuclear / Government report gives new wind to green energy in UK / Accidents reveal troubles at Mexico’s oil monopoly / New issue of HopeDance / Rural enterprises in UK and Czech Rep. / New issue of CSIRO newsletter / How do Japanese dump trash? Let us count the myriad ways / China’s quest for a modern flush / Argentine town hopes to transform wind into windfall
