Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
American action in Iraq must be at least considered as the choice of a military, geo-strategic, grab-the-oil policy by an administration of oil men very, very conscious of the building longer term problem of peak oil and the emerging awareness of how the oil endgame is a control of the Middle East problem.
Paul Ehrlich talks about his new book – One With Nineveh. He reminds us that agriculture began in a fertile land, around Nineveh, in what is now the Middle East, which is now desert.
…true energy independence is not about the borders that surround the oil, but the boardrooms that control it.
At at time when energy resource depletion is widely acknowledged, many housing developments continue in soon-to-be-disfunctional patterns. Ronald Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny, writes that the development plan for Martis Valley in California is a really good example of this type of obsolete public policy.
Its largest find in Alberta area in nearly 20 years lifts hopes for more giant deposits.
China will set its focus of energy saving in the industrial sector, transportation and construction industries, as well as commercial and civil power use
Oil price forecasts made during the proceedings of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) conference in Berlin recently were brought to the attention of the Indian government, admitted the Union minister for petroleum and natural gas.
China and the European Union, meeting yesterday in the Hague, pledged to boost relations while signing more than a dozen cooperation agreements.
A “significant” oil and gas find has been made in the North Sea west of Shetland, it has been announced.
For millions of low-income Americans, it’s going to be a long, very cold winter. Fuel prices have skyrocketed and to make matters worse, the number of people living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million to 36 million people, or 12.5 percent of the population.
Saudi Arabia, the most powerful member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said on Wednesday that global oil stocks needed to increase before Opec would have to cut production, a stance that puts it at odds with most of its fellow oil cartel members.
Russia is again calling for a Moscow-New Delhi-Beijing axis, an alliance of three nuclear-armed countries of some 2.5 billion people that theoretically would be able to balance US power in coming years.
