Billion barrel baby–But is it enough?
You might think that the last thing on the mind of someone sitting on a newly discovered billion-barrel oil find would be alternative fuels. You would be wrong.
Italy sent troops to Iraq to secure oil deal: report
ROME – Italian troops were sent to Iraq to secure oil deals worth 300 billion dollars, and not just for post-war humanitarian purposes, an Italian television report by RAI claimed on Friday.
Energy Headlines – May 15, 2005
Community Solutions newsletter on Peak Oil economics / Kunstler interview in Salon / PO – “a promissory word of new birth” / Berkeley energy professor roasts Bush / Climate change’s nuclear fix / Ecuador gets Chávez’d / Oil fuels programs for poor in Venezuela / Problems aplenty in a world of plenty / Australia ‘throwing away too much food’ / Increase in ‘dead zones’ starving the world’s seas / Germany plans to triple wind power
Energy Headlines, 14 May 2005
Today’s Prophetic Noahs and Paul Reveres Sound Alarms / Oil Doomsday is Nigh, Tar Sands Not a Substitute / Qatar to revolutionise diesel market / Bush energy policy: So stupid, it’s painful
Audio: Looking Beyond Oil for Energy
An hour long Peak Oil radio program featuring ASPO president Kjell Alekett, Blood and Oil author Michael Klare and American Petroleum Institute chief economist, John Felmy.
UK: Wave, wind, sun and tide a powerful mix
Research at Oxford University shows that intermittent renewables, combined with domestic combined heat and power (dCHP) could dependably provide the bulk of Britain’s electricity.
The growing consensus is that only new nuclear power can plug that gap without contributing to global warming.
But a new report indicates that a judicious mix of intermittent renewables – wave, wind, sun and tide – could supply over half of UK electricity.
USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan, promises $100mil for Caspian guard
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Azerbaijan (an Asian republic of the former USSR) on April 12th. It became Rumsfeld’s second visit to the republic in four months — that is why it can hardly be treated as a formal visit of no particular importance.
Energy Headlines 13 May 2005
Powerdown – back to Eden? / USEIA’s unbelievable optimism / Kunstler: The Rapture / End of the Age of Oil / Strategic Conundrum Of India’s Oil Pipeline Projects / Trading oil for biomass / Bush’s energy solution / Five Arab countries and Turkey to be linked via power grids / Afghan ‘pipe dream’ draws closer to reality / Less-polluting hybrid locomotive begins operation
Transcript: Fourth Peak Oil Presentation by US Congressman Bartlett, collegues.
The Fourth Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, accompanied by Rep.’s Ehlers, Gilchrest, Inglis, and Wamp.
$4 a gallon
America is over. America is like Wile E. Coyote after he’s run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he’ll take a few more steps in midair before he looks down. Then, when he sees that there’s nothing under him, he’ll fall. Many Americans suspect that they’re running on thin air, but they haven’t looked down yet. When they do …
Energy Headlines, 12 May 2005
Push for release of oil & gas production data / Farm costs up 10% / Cheney clings tight to Energy Taskforce records / Construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline nearly complete / Nova Scotia: Fewer gas stations, fewer tourists? / UK Oil Co’s fear Windfall tax / Whitehouse wants oil price at $25 a barrel
World Facing Energy Crisis Say Oil Producers
The world is about to face an energy crisis because the demand for oil keeps growing even though production is already at its maximum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
