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The decline in the availability of cheap energy is likely to be accompanied by an equally ominous possibility of world financial meltdown. That we are facing both of these threats now is not an accident: energy and financial stability are intimately linked. I believe the solutions for dealing with these twinned threats are equally linked.
Stan Goff on Encroachment (failure in Iraq and the prospect of fascism) /
An imperial defeatist– and proud of it /
The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency: women and oil wars
Our country can grow in a more self-reliant manner and without further damage to the environment. We will be offering products and services that are unique and are better geared to serving the needs of the world’s future. The market for these environmentally friendly products and services will go beyond the imagination once they are marketed to the mainstream population. China’s peaceful rise will be utterly credible, and it will be wholeheartedly welcomed by the world.
For those who can’t make the trip to Pisa for this year’s international Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), the next best thing could be a visit to ASPO-5 Live, a near real-time weblog. July 18-19.
The City of Ashland’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) discusses Peak Oil preparation.
California: so many cars, so little money / Davis: the best bicycle town in North America /
Blacktop cost curbs road work / Fuel costs may benefit Boeing; airlines could seek to replace fuel-guzzlers / How to hack a hybrid (plug-in Prius)
A watershed on energy? (UK energy report) / China called to rein in growing use of electricity / Jane Bryant: what we need is policy / Alliance: Car feebate could replace CAFE increase / Turkey as an energy terminal state / American Conservative Magazine cover story on “American Petrocracy”
Good old kerosene and its derivatives remain as the world’s aviation fuel, not just of choice, but of necessity, for the indefinite future. So Peak Oil or no, if mankind is going to fly, it appears that the world is locked into fossil-fuel based technology for the long term.
China can claim for itself a ranking among the world advanced countries in the car industry and has formed a strategy to transform its car energy system.
Interview with smart-growth expert Anthony Flint / The next real estate boom /
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity in Chicago.
Playing oil politics in the Caspian Sea / Soros: Europe must tackle Russian energy threat / Cheneys betting on bad news? /
How did oil power Iran fall into a petrol crisis? / BP blames Venezuela’s Chavez for shortfall in production / Seymour Hersch: The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
I am a health care professional, and as far as I know hardly anyone in my field is paying serious attention to Peak Oil.
