Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
UK Business fears return of the three-day week / Drug use on rigs driving oil prices up / Natural gas prices take toll on U.S. agriculture (2) / Automakers show signs of schizophrenia / Morgan Stanley on Southeast Asian energy challenges / Pacific Rim energy conference / Oil cash stockpile fuels fears of 70s-style recession
Expedition drills deep in study of climate issues / ‘Climate change is pissing off the bears’ / The price of cheap beef: disease, deforestation, slavery and murder / Climate Model Sees Extreme Future / EU Says It Will Not Weaken Drive for Action on Climate Change / Climate change means big changes in Puget Sound / ‘Environmental Conscience’ Urges Canadians to Tread Softly
Ford Exec: Oil Production is Peaking / Denver Conference ‘Beyond Oil: Intelligent Responses to Peak Oil Impacts’ / The World at $100 A Barrel / We have to look beyond oil for energy security / Why I Don’t Believe in “Peak Oil” / Rep. Bartlett’s in US Congress
Canada warns US of major oil deal with China / S. America goes nationalist With Oil, Gas / China courts Latin nations for raw materials, aims to reduce oil imports / Waiting for the Petrodollar Trickle Down / Big Ag nervous about energy costs / Aviation presses claim to fuel priority / White House plans to shut Hub energy office / Is the Energy Rout Over? / Small Oil finds risks in Iraq irresistible / Gloom as UK oil reserves run dry / Jump in sea freight costs chokes barley export / ‘Alt. energy answer to poor nations’ needs’
Taxation of on-farm biodiesel favouring fossil fuels / New ‘simple’ wavepower generator shows promise / Thermodynamics And Money / German poll result hinders nuclear revival
The Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary… or to see it as a rival player in the global capitalist system. …after a four-year period in which neither outlook appeared dominant, the pendulum has now swung conspicuously toward the anti-Chinese, prepare-for-war position.
Economic Brief: E.U. Plans for Alternative Energy’ / Shell E&P on the challenge of meeting expanding energy demand / USA expresses interest in Iran-Armenia pipeline / Schlumberger Glossary / A New Push to Mix Oil and Water / ‘Scientists trade theories on how petroleum arises’
Bangladesh rations natural gas / The supermarket goes south / Has the Green dream wilted? / Inflation surge: Here to stay? / Natural Gas Users to Take Hit This Winter / Refiner Madness / Greenspan Says Economy Handling Energy Costs `Reasonably Well’
Car-sharing service saves 1 million gallons of gas / Energy Conservation Is Back. What’s Your Company Doing? / Greenpeace: EU ready to lead the way to a clean energy future / Learn ’em right – “avoiding diapers is organic” / Eternally Yours: Time in Design / Don’t be duped by bottled water
Acres of chard and lettuce in Golden Gate Park? The Marina Green with community gardens? Wind turbines on top of the Bank of America Building?
There was an economy that loved SUVs /
To haul all its workers far from the cities. /
The cars pushed the economy to depend on more oil. /
But I dunno why it depended on oil; perhaps it will spoil. (To the tune of “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”)
The militarisation of the United States’s energy policy is distorting the country’s democracy and damaging its standing in the world.
