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Britain’s burgeoning rail network / Simple Fixes for Saving Energy / China’s clouds of pollution signal opportunity for some / The Week in Green Vehicles / Speculative Ecodesign for Osaka / California solar roofs bill: hope is not dead

Japan’s dress-down drive saved power worth 240,000 homes / Organic Agriculture Enters Mainstream / “Green” gas station opens, selling only renewable fuel / Victorian govt. backs car sharing / Report proposes ‘energy police’ to make UK go green

OPEC May Offer Every Barrel of Oil Members Can Pump / Iran announces gasoline ‘smart cards’ to moderate consumption / Economists’ No. 1 fear: energy prices / Go ahead, make Putin’s day. Drive a giant SUV / Petrol to factor in ACTU wage claim / The great American airlines disaster / Airlines’ Bankruptcies May Impact Service [!]

Four serious papers and a striking set of quotes from the Proceedings of the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome, a special issue explicitly addressing oil depletion and the ‘problematique’.

How Big Should A Small Farm Be? / New religion required / Building green always made sense — now it’s beginning to pay off / reenhouse emissions reduced by biodiesel / Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s

Market analysts testimony to US Senate ENR committee / A Prudent Bear meets Pimental / Another Way of Looking at CERA / Simmons interviewed in Foriegn Policy magazine / An Interview with Michael Ruppert / Peak Oil in Guatemala and the U.S.: Energy Crises at Both Ends of the Development Spectrum / Policies for Sustainable Food Systems, National and Global

Worries over winter natural gas supplies for US Gulf of Mexico area / Panic buying begins as motorists fear petrol blockades / Car industry woes / Brown calls for oil market change / Toyota Says It May Put Gas-Electric Engines in All Its Vehicles / British Energy extends Dungeness B nuke station to 2018 / EnCana selling Ecuador oil assets to Chinese group / Branson talks of oil refinery

Heavy fuel sales ahead of UK tax protest / US Congress revisits fuel-economy regulation / Storm Stretches Refiners Past a Perilous Point / NYTimes editorial on rationing, infrastructure / High Diesel Prices Yield Bumper Crop of Thieves / Canadian Imperial Bank: Oil May Average $93 in 2007 / UK: ‘Face down the protests’ / Ageing North Sea not helped enough by $60 oil

Oil Drum on Physics of Physical work / Kunstler on Rocks in our Heads / US Rep. Bartlett interview / Peak Oil and Britain / 2007: Solving Peak Oil [press rel.] / Agenda of New York Petrocollapse conference / NZ Labor Energy Policy admits early peak possible / Oil, the times, and Pascal’s wager / End of oil era in sight, Rifkin warns / Simmons, Kunstler book reviews / “Katrina’s aftermath is glimpse of world’s energy future” / Our float down the River de Nial

White House asks oil companies to postpone refinery maintenance / Canada may defer refinery maintenance to help U.S / BP kept unit running despite memo on eroded pipes / TOD – Oil drilling 101: sharing the wealth / New England stove wood prices spiking / Magnetic energy? Perhaps

Britain must use less oil, says UK Chancellor Brown / Petrol price protest blockades from Wednesday in UK? / The New Prize: Alternative Fuels / Demand for Fuel Seems to Be Falling / Interview with Schlumberger CEO Andrew Gould

The War Garden Victorious /
Be a patriot — get your hands dirty /
Scaring ourselves into crouching inactivity /
John Jeavons discusses sustainable agriculture /
Amory Lovins: More profit with less carbon /
Interview with Graham Hill of Treehugger /
New Federal hybrid incentives under the microscope /
Backpack harnesses hiker’s energy