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Indonesia braces for fuel protest / Bush urges conservation, rejects solutions / Conservative conservation / WaPost backs Energy tax / Where filling up an SUV costs $3 / Chemicals cost tails natural gas / What goes up will keep it up / Smaller Cars Enjoy New Chic / UK: Conservative deputy leader warns hopefuls over energy / Howard: $13bn surplus no reason to cut petrol tax

Global Warming: Death in the Deep-Freeze / Interior secretary says US will push search for energy / Arctic ice ‘disappearing fast’ / Effect of Greenhouse Gases Rising, Government Says / Bush Faces Wall Street Pressure on Global Warming / American Prospect – Reports Toward a Greener Politics

Oil Transparency at Risk From Major State Companies / UK: Firms could shut in gas shortage / Rita’s Revelation / Taking a turn for the better – or directional drilling again / Iraqi oil output forecast is bleak, ex-official says / Baghdad in the dark as power cuts continue to blight the city / Cheap As Chips: the Other Oil / Volvo launches world’s first CO2-free automotive plant

Report on Ohio Peak Oil conference /
End of cheap oil; rising gas prices only the beginning /
Gas crisis not a big surprise /
Kunstler on Rita (2) /
NPR: Energy policy for a gas-guzzling nation /
German PO site /
Spanish-language PO site

Saudis warn region is on the brink of war / Nigerian militia leader urges calm / The growing cost of growing wheat(2) / High prices not only at the pump / Linda McQuaig interview:It’s the Crude Dude / Ford CEO wants energy summit / In Niger, hungry are fed, but farmers may starve / The New Energy Crisis [satire]

The First Casualty / Time to stop mainlining petroleum before it kills us / London conference addresses oil-production problems / An Opportunity Missed / The pain of oil addiction hits home / Why Simmons is wrong about Saudi Oil / Peak Oil and Japan’s Food Dependence / Ruppert – Rita May Be the Coup de Grace / Simmons – Are we now in an energy hole? / Cobbs class outline – Surviving a Post-Oil Future

Hurricane Rita coverage / Natural Gas and Oil Outlook – How Serious? / Gas may top $4 a gallon if Rita hits hard / In an oil squeeze, attention to the alternatives / The search for alternatives / Ford plans tenfold increase in hybrids

Nigeria militia storm oil station / Majority wants oil firms taxed / Truck blockade over fuel prices / Drivers reduce buying at bowsers / Venezuela ships additional petroleum to the United States / With Oil, Chavez Plays It Safe / Blood for No Oil / Japan protests China’s gas drilling / Diesel rustling in US midwest / Canadians leap to fillup before Rita impacts

Food Miles and Sustainability / Rolling Out The Blobject – Alt.transport / PUC plans incentives to save energy / Would you be prepared for a natural disaster? / Projects go with the flow to reuse runoff / Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

IEA Head: “Leave oil before she leaves you” / The main lesson from Katrina for our petrosociety / Apocaphilia, Peak Oil and Sustainability / The Real Oil Shock / Before the oil runs out: How will this era end? / Daniel Yergin challenged on NPR / The End of the Tunnel / Drivers revolt by turning off their ignitions