Energy Prices Not Spurring Conservation
While soaring oil prices in the 1970s prompted major advances in the nation’s energy efficiency, this year’s surge in fuel costs has so far not sparked a new wave of conservation.
War on Plastic: Rejecting the toxic plague
Plastic as toxic trash is barely an issue with health advocates, environmentalists, and even those of us looking toward the post-petroleum world. Instead, “recycling” and future “bioplastics” distract people from keeping plastic out of their lives.
Peak Oil Economics & Money – What Underwrites our Dollar?
How will the impact of Peak Oil affect the market for precious metals and fiat monetary systems?
Global Relocalization — A Call to Action
The imminent peaking of global oil production and the fact that natural gas production has already peaked in North America could be the catalyst for positive transformation of industrial society. It could also be a recipe for disaster.
Horrific on the harbor
A new study states that a terrorist attack on an LNG tanker would cause horrific fires, causing major injuries and significant damage to buildings a third of a mile away and second-degree burns on people more than a mile away.
Venezuela’s Chavez arrives in China with eye on oil deals
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing for an official visit that aims to bolster his country’s oil deals with the Asian giant, state media and officials said.
Gabon: Calls for Fair Division of a Diminishing Pie
An oil rich nation, where a minority is accused of benefiting disproportionately from mineral wealth…Clashes between police and the inhabitants of oil-producing areas that result in deaths…A scene from Nigeria? No – Ndolou, in south-western Gabon.
Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil
Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, could team up with the China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the Yukos oil company’s main production asset, sold to a mystery bidder on Sunday.
One of the last easy-motoring Christmases
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year had a famous father who famously remarked a decade ago that “the American way of life is not negotiable.” To keep the suburban expansion going indefinitely we will need to continue using one-quarter of the world’s oil every day.
Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence
Industry demands tax breaks, regulatory changes to hunt for oil at the bottom of the sea….America’s onshore sources are nearly tapped out… Luckily, the United States holds claim to one of the world’s richest oil deposits: the Gulf of Mexico.
Germany shines a beam on the future of energy
Nation gambles on amped-up push for renewable power
Global cereal output hits record high
A significant surplus in cereal stocks is expected, for the first time since 1999/2000 as global cereal production hits a record 2.04 billion tonnes in 2004, says FAO in Food Outlook.
