Society

Far flung tribes

by

Partly by accident I have been without a car for well over a year. What ensued was a suburban adventure through the tract housing that I regard as something like reverse exploration, a search for passage from this new and strange place to something older, familiar and more accessible. The development ringing the city suggests clans of a vast tribe. If they had a common name maybe it would be ‘Suburbanites’.

Petrodollars – Jan 12

by

The petrodollars poser

Petrodollars funding US deficit

Petrodollar power poses a bigger threat than China

Russia opts for some roulette with mighty petrodollar fund

Yes, but…

by

Perhaps the most crucial argument to the peak oil debate–that there is a huge difference between how much of a resource is theoretically available on planet Earth and how rapidly we can extract it–is too difficult to explain the way we have been explaining it. Perhaps we need some new approaches for explaining this and other aspects of peak oil.