Trading Blood For Oil
Fresh Aire’s Terry Gross interviews ‘Blood and Oil’ author, Michael Klare
Have 1,000 U.S. Souls Died for Oil?
The tragic milestone of 1,000 U.S. deaths in the Iraqi quagmire should cause introspection about why the United States really went to war and whether it has been worth it.
Taking Back the Food System: Organizing for Food Justice in California
A Report on the Second California Community Food Security Summit.
Exxon CEO: Oil Isn’t Going Away, But…
“For the next 20 years, growth in the world economy is going to raise demand by oil and oil equivalents from something on the order of 65 to 85 million barrels a day, to 330 million [barrels], which is a huge, huge number. It’s like eight Saudi Arabias.”
Election Calls for US Oil Independence a Pipe Dream
U.S. election-year pledges by both presidential candidates to wean the nation from its foreign oil dependence have vote-winning potential but may be just a pipe dream, energy experts say.
US: Time to prepare for post-petroleum world is now
Lurking behind the historically high price of oil now placing a damper on our entire economy is the real problem: the sheer volume of oil that we have to import from other countries to keep our wheels turning.
Cheap oil gone forever, magnate Pickens says
While demand is expected to increase, however, Pickens and others also say world production has or will soon peak, meaning the world’s producers will be unable to recover more than the current 82 million barrels a day.
Glib comments don’t mean nuclear energy safe
Dependable? Uranium is a finite natural resource, just like fossil fuels. Safe? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists simply because nuclear technology is flat-out dangerous.
Significance of US/Venezuela oil connection is worthy of note
The significance of the US/Venezuela oil connection is worthy of note. The proximity of this source of imported oil to our Gulf of Mexico oil portals gives them major “ace in the hole” status.
Australia: Peak Oil – A Perfect Storm
The possible consequences of peak oil are gigantic and involve nothing less than a forced, massive, radical and sustained change in our way of life as we transition to alternative energy sources and the economic/political order they support. Our current oil fed, growth based, globalised industrial civilisation will not survive the transition, something new must take its place.
Tomorrow, the Festival
Caryl Johnston is writing a semi-humorous novel about the Oil Crash. Here is Chapter Ten.
The balance of power: energy in 2020
We can still have all the electricity we want in 2020, says Paul Brown. But we need to learn to love renewables
