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Using taxes to keep gasoline prices high makes sense to some / More Blood, Less Oil / Canada’s energy ministers claim they’re powerless on prices / US Energy market braces for ‘national disaster’ / Oil, gasoline rise as GOM platforms shut down again / US Governors ask for inquiry on oil prices / Ventura county supervisors assail Bush’s energy plans

IEA Official: Oil ‘like a girlfriend’ – leave her before she leaves you / Petrotheism / Peak Oil War – A World Peace Story / New Poster Illustrates History, Impending Peak of World Oil Production / Matt Simmons on Brian Lehrer Show / Manuel Collares-Pereira discusses energy after 2005 ASPO conference / Experts disagree on how long oil supply will last

Sweden To Try To End Fossil Fuels Dependency By 2020 – PM / On speed limits and gas consumption / New Orleans: 5 Point Strategy for Sustainable Rebuilding / Free U.S. Program provides solution for more clean energy

Measure Of natural resource wealth shows developing countries in the red / Poll: 8 in 10 want drivers to drop SUVs / Venezuela to sell direct to US poor / In oil boom, Mexico’s Pemex struggles / Nigerian militia threatens oil installations over arrest / Greens: Ireland ‘must switch to renewable energy’ / Cheap Gas Is a Bad Habit / Katrina to drive rig cover costs up by 50%

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