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Pasadena Conference to focus on peak oil / Peak Oil: the next big thing / Green energy will never meet needs, says Exxon / Oil to Play for As North Sea’s Future Looks Bright / Should we invest in nuclear power? / Singapore Airlines CEO urges consolidation / Snow Visits U.S.’s Biggest Oil Supplier: It’s Not Saudi Arabia / Samuel Bodman – A whole new world of oil price increases / As Energy Shortage Looms, Hu Revisits Russia for Oil / Power Crunch Deepens as Heatwave Bakes China / Asia seeks alternatives to oil power as prices soar / Life of Chinese people under soaring oil price

‘BioWillie’ emerges as energy alternative to fuel costs / Interview with Jules Dervaes of Path to Freedom / Cheap and clean Emission-neutral vehicle getting rave reviews / Nanotechnology could turn rooftops into a sea of power-generating stations / Emissions: It’s Time to Go on a Low-Carbon Diet / China: The good life means more greenhouse gas / China: Where coal is king, everything else is sacrificed / Planet getting into hot water, says report / North Atlantic Ocean Temps Hit Record High

The Peak Oil Crisis: Mid-Year 2005 / Oilcast #15: Bank Of Montreal – Saudi & Mexico fields “in decline” / Bush Urges Less Global Oil Use, as US Guzzles It / Oil and Economic Crash Possible This Winter / Oil’s not well, so let’s find alternative / Leadership on energy use ‘will curb high oil prices’ SCO wants date for US withdrawal from Central Asia / Gas pipeline talks: Iran, Pakistan to invite India / Chinese rigs, crews arriving in western Colorado / Left, right: Iran and Venezuela in lockstep / Hu Jintao makes further advances in Kazakhstan / Asian govts face protests as oil subsidies cut while prices hit records / As oil prices rise, shrugs at the gas pump

Portland (USA) proves climate action profitable / Producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy / Canada awards $46 million to ethanol plants / Climate Change Solutions Focus of New KLD Index / Wind Power Has A Head Of Steam / UK summer turning to a drought / Earth getting darker as sunlight decreases / Experts Predict Polar Bear Decline – Global Warming Is Melting Their Ice Pack Habitat / Water Shortage May up Japan Utilities’ Oil Demand / Urban sprawl produces rich pickings for farmland owners

Facing our energy predicament / Why We Need $60/Barrel Oil – Update / Can Democracy Survive Without Fossil Fuels? / Rail woes may bring US power summer of discontent / Want trumps need in ’05 energy crisis / Are the Desert Kingdom’s foundations built on sand? / Study: Ethanol Not a Sustainable Path to Petroleum Independence / Save 18c a litre in battle of the bowsers / World’s First Purpose-Built Fuel Cell Motorbike Makes North American Debut / Experts predict energy crisis in Ukraine, removal of PM in autumn / Leaving no oil source untapped / Iraq tallies $11.4 billion in lost oil revenue / Russia to help China oust the USA from Eurasia /

Pertamina Tells Customers to Ration Gas / Expect oil production slump – Iranian expert / Launch Of World Oil Data Delayed Again on Quality Issues / The Sunset of Oil / EOR to revive some US fields? / Fuel duty increase delayed again / Higher taxes sap Russian oil exports to Europe / Japan considering up to 1 trln yen aid to Russia in pipeline bid / Heating bills likely to double / A Manufactured CPI, Other Perils and Gold / Energetic Disagreements on Oil /

561. China starts to unload Dollar Reserves
562. ExxonMobil accepts Peak Oil
563. Bilderberger Conference
564. Country Assessment – Romania
565. Three excellent new Books 566. Further thoughts about Recovery
567. Exporting the National Heritage
568. A Flat Earth Cathedral makes an Award
569. BP Statistical Review
570. Proceedings of ASPO Conference in Lisbon 571. OPEC speaks of declining production
572. End of Empire foreseen
573. Oil and People

US House Says No to China Oil Deal / Theft of gas rises as price goes up / “Peak Land” and Sardines / Dreaming of ‘controlled’ thermo-nuclear fusion – The ITER project and Peak Oil / Some long-haul worries about diesel / Oil Is Where You Find It / ‘Clean energy’ power station? / Pipeline protesters call for Shell boycott / ‘Security Cooperation’ Bill Includes Mexican Oil Production Measure / Energy cold war is on – China and India race to acquire PetroKazakhstan / India, Turkey to set up joint hydrocarbon sector working group / Driven by energy shortages, China races to expand nuclear power industry / Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC / Japan and China face off over energy / Energy ration cards for everyone planned in UK / Asians drive slower, shed ties to curb $60 oil hit /

Wall St. Journal discovers peak oil /
‘Oil forecasts are glib, futile and damaging’ /
Shell predicts two decades of rising energy prices /
Central banks fear slump as oil soars near $61 /
Treas Secty Snow says oil prices hurting economy /
US Senate passes energy bill /
The art of ‘manufacturing uncertainty’ /
Climate change ‘worries children’ /
The Brits can teach us Yanks how to create livable cities /
France chosen as site for fusion reactor /
Thais plan to cut energy – even early morning TV

The revenge of chicken little /
Can democracy survive without fossil fuels? /
Washington Post coming close to peak oil /
Julia Butterfly Hill is a PO believer /
Impressions of “The Deal” (PO movie) /
Oil spike a reminder of 1990 /
Zimbabwe triples price of petrol /
Is fusion the best way forward? /
Yes, says investment advisor /
No, says Andrew McKillop /
Panel affirms radiation link to cancer, even at low levels /
Cost of nuclear ‘underestimated’ /
Revolution, geopolitics and pipelines /
China on the international oil market /
Venezuela builds oil alliance /
Autonomous grassroots alternatives to the G8 nations /
G8 committed to fossil fuels, turn to carbon storage /
Greenhouse hypocrisy /
Sharing housing and herb gardens in Portland /
Seattle’s a hothouse of green power /
Hydrogen cars will save lives — and the planet (?) /
Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet (good food and shrinking butts)