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If President Bush is looking for a legacy, I have just the one for him – a national science project that would be our generation’s moon shot: a crash science initiative for alternative energy and conservation to make America energy-independent in 10 years.
Amanullah Khan Jadoon, the Pakistani minister for petroleum and natural resources, said on Friday that the Prime Minister is due to visit Iran next month where final talks over the Pakistan-Iran-India gas pipeline project would be held.
Ronald R. Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny clarifies some of the curiosities of how the stated price of oil is calculated, and the price projections of the international energy agencies.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned that Britain’s growing need for energy over the next decades has to be seen in a “changing context” due to declining production from the North Sea.
“By 2020, we will probably be importing three-quarters of our primary energy needs — and we will need to adapt to that,” he warned when launching his government’s first-ever International Energy Strategy.
The signs are
mounting that a physical scarcity of mineral oil must be
expected much sooner than anticipated. Extreme forecasts
predict that production of known reserves will already peak at
the end of this decade
Here’s another reason we’re going to be sorry that we’ve allowed this administration to plunge the United States into record debt – we’re going to start running out of oil in the next decade or two.
WORLD oil prices continued to plummet yesterday ending fears of a global energy supply crunch.
But the sudden fall, with oil trading down to $US43.20, was not reflected on Asian markets on which Australia’s retail fuel prices are based.
Light crude sold on the Singapore exchange still traded above $US50 a barrel late yesterda
Queensland’s coal producers are struggling to get the product to the coast and onto the boats because of the state’s inadequate port facilities.
The state should be taking full advantage of a tripling in world coal prices over the past 18 months but basic transport is holding up profits.
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas December Newsletter has an update on the Saudi situation, a country assessment of Canada and much more.
Ireland has become rich. It has also surrendered itself to motorways, shopping malls, and urban sprawl, stripping peat bogs, demolishing monuments along the way. Mark Lynas reports on one of the world’s worst polluters
The gap between the present state of the art in hydrogen production, storage, and use and that needed for a competitive hydrogen economy is too wide to bridge in incremental advances. It will take fundamental breakthroughs of the kind that come only from basic research.
Tehran’s sense of strategic encirclement, allied to Washington’s hostile rhetoric, could make Iran the epicentre of the next regional crisis….Once more, the politics of energy, especially oil, emerges as the most potent hidden factor in regional political insecurity.
