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Cartoon: end-of-the-world scenario /
Free Peak Oil presentation from PowerSwitch /
Indonesian outage leaves 100m without electricity /
Wall Street giants see oil rising /
Cebu (Philippines) plans ban on private cars /
Oil drives the genocide in Darfur /
US politicians have little to ease anguish of gas prices

Ecuador to declare emergency, oil production falls / Manila eyes drastic steps to cope with oil crisis / India, China: Comrades in oil / Putin Wants More for Russian Oil / Energy and political experts game oil crisis / In U.S. heartland, anxiety over Iraq, oil / Another Methane Move / Energy prices plummet as demand falls [slightly] / Energy on NPR / Globalisation, Victorian-era labour practices, and oil demand / City traders facing up to climate change

Venezuela Ready to Cut Oil Exports to US / Venezuela Oil Min: Global Oil Capacity At Its Limit / Cheney makes the oil sands pilgrimage
to Alberta / Electricity prices shock heavy users / Guzzle Gas, and Pretend / India Energy Independence / Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Oil Prices / Oil Prices Ignite Wall Street Sell-Off / Uranium mining: dollars for death

Peak Oil, Peak Empire / The Cost of Oil And Hubbert’s Peak / The Humpty Dumpty Effect / Matt Savinar presentation on the Lifeboat Radio Show / Government unprepared for peak oil / The black art of oil pricing / Fear driving oil prices along the Peak theory road

‘Peak oil’ issue piques interest / Energy deficit grows, solutions wither / Running out of options / E.N.Luttwak: The world isn’t short of oil – and the price will go down, not up / Jan Lundberg’s new website, new PO essays / E&E News – daily energy and environment news

Wal-Mart blames gas prices for soft sales, worries about outlook / As gasoline prices rise, businesses get creative / Gas prices pump up carpools / Gas Prices: Up, Up and Away / Fuel Rule Change for Big S.U.V.’s Seen as Unlikely / Citizen Journalist: Pinched at the pump

What keeps driving oil prices higher? (Q and As) / Steven Roach hedges, warns / Why is petrocollapse imminent? / Peak Oil group in Portland, Oregon / The Week in Sustainable Vehicles / The Oil Price to Be Scared Of / Energy myths and illusions

Why We Pay Too Little for Well Travelled Food / Depopulation — myth or reality? / Eco-Friendly Burial Sites Give a Chance to Be Green Forever / We Wuz Rob’d! – Rob Elam, biodiesel buff, answers Grist’s questions / Philipines: Senate roused to pass energy-saving bills / Experimental hybrid cars get up to 250 mpg / California’s leap towards Kyoto should reap rewards

Demand and Economics, or are we mushrooms? / America’s energy future on AirAmerica / ResourceInvestor on oils record week / Denver to host ASPO-USA seminar in November / Oil shale drive has risks for the West (US)

Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables / What We Don’t Eat: Revolting waste / Nigers’ crisis not simply due to swarming insects and drought / Errors found in analysis of data used to discount global warming / The Right to be Cold / Ice is not all that’s going to disappear as the climate warms / Toxic 100 Index lists top corporate air polluters / West Nile disease toll on birds soaring

Truckers stop work over fuel prices / Iran: Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott / Dangerous curves on Turkey’s energy policy / Venezuela tax agency closes Shell office / Better Ask Santa For Gasoline / China grapples with high oil prices / Oil price rise puts squeeze on UK industry / How expensive oil hurts consumers / Oil Prices, Amid Global Concerns, Surge to a Record / Euro rivals cut off UK gas pipeline / Has India sacrificed at Washington’s altar? / A Superfluous Petroleum Reserve? / June Trade Deficit Surged as Oil Price Resumed Climb / U.S. trade deficit widens on flood of Chinese textiles, oil imports