The End is Near

Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and as Bush and Kerry are out campaigning, we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out.

Swift route to green energy at home

News organisations worldwide have been waking up to the potential of a noiseless, vibration-free, roof-mounted turbine. The device plugs directly into the home grid, it will retail at around £1,500 and promises to repay that in electricity savings to the average household in the first three years of its 20-year guaranteed life.

India: Oil crisis looming large

Despite RBI Governor Dr Y.V. Reddy putting on a brave front on Tuesday saying that the Indian economy is resilient enough to absorb the oil shock, it is now clear that the ogre of petro inflation will adversely impact India’s growth prospects.

US Oil Supply: So Muddy And Deep

Some traders are handicapping the possibility of the U.S. tapping the Strategic Oil Supply. With one week to go before the election, and with long-term problems now being fully catalogued, the scenario becomes possible. The United State’s supply of oil is in tatters due to underwater mudslides caused by Hurricane Ivan.

Exxon Mobil production rises slightly, profits boom

Total output rose 1 percent to the equivalent of 3.91 million barrels of oil a day as Chief Executive Officer Lee R. Raymond added production from the $3.4 billion Kizomba A project in deep waters off the coast of Angola. Other projects began producing in the past year in the North Sea and off Equatorial Guinea.
The impact of new projects was almost outweighed by a 14 percent drop in U.S. gas output, asset sales and production- sharing contracts under which the company gets fewer barrels of crude from certain fields as prices rise.

High gas prices may be here to stay

Motorists may groan, but the times of $2-a-gallon gasoline could look like the good old days before the decade is over. The problem is that global demand for oil is rising briskly, and at the same time, production in old oil fields is declining and new fields are increasingly hard to find.

US: Peak Oil Mini Summit at the Green Festival

The Green Festival, a two-day party intended to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that values life, will be host to an unofficial peak oil mini summit. The official program for Saturday November 6th features Peter Camejo, Richard Heinberg, and Julian Darley speaking about oil depletion and the implications.