How dare they use our oil!
How’s this for nerve? The leader of a country that consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day is warning the leader of a country that consumes some 6.5 million barrels not to try to lock up world oil resources.
Year: 2006
Hundred dollar oil, five percent inflation, and the coming recession
Prominent energy economist predicts inflation and/or recession on purely economic grounds – peak oil isn’t necessary to make his case. (excerpts)
Peak oil – Apr 21
Department of Defense and energy revolution /
Interview – SF peak oil resolution /
BBC: What is driving oil prices so high? /
Le Monde: Il faut préparer la “fin du pétrole” /
Peak oil in Switzerland /
PO interview in Wisconsin
Other energy – Apr 21
Could Sweden become the OPEC-equivalent for bioenergy? /
Americans commute longer, farther than ever /
Wall Street Journal’s green auto coverage /
Australian’s fuel-from-plastic potential wasted
Politics & economics – Apr 21
Gas prices – what’s the right strategy for the Dems? /
Conservative Cal: Getting serious about energy (takes an enemy) /
Chavez: oil will be destroyed if attacked /
Castro on energy /
Australian MPs in ‘back pocket’ of giants /
Get used to higher gas prices, Canadian PM says
Environment – Apr 21
Ask Umbra: Apocalypse 101 /
The emerging environmental majority /
Climate change will be significant but not extreme, study predicts /
UK’s Gordon Brown: ‘The environment must be centre of policy worldwide’ /
UK Tory leader pledges to firm up green credentials with carbon levy /
UK scientists fear new attempts to undermine climate action /
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviews Republican senators on global warming
Environment – Apr 20
UK scientists attack oil firms’ role in huge Arctic project /
Global warming sparks a scramble for black gold under retreating ice /
While Washington slept (why we’re late on climate change) /
California tackles greenhouse emissions
Politics & economics – Apr 20
Cuba’s future in the hands of teenage pump attendants /
Chad’s president wants more from oil /
China’s big need for oil is high on U.S. agenda /
Beijing’s ‘new thinking’ on energy security /
Matthew Simmons: China’s insatiable energy needs /
Got oil? Rice meets with brutal African dictator, calls him ‘good friend’ of U.S.
Oil news – Apr 20
Countdown to $100 oil – Time to bet again /
Gwynne Dyer: Oil – the party is over /
Stephen Roach : Oil and bonds /
The oil rush (transforming the petroleum market)
Other energy – Apr 20
More uranium: when and from where? /
Going nuclear: a green makes the case /
Anything into oil (turkey guts, junked car parts, even raw sewage…true!) /
Growing demand for non-food crops /
UK coal producer pushes for price increases of 40% /
Russia to control Armenia’s gas /
Transmaterial, transtudio and seeing the big picture – links
Think small on energy
Energy policy in America has suffered from big ideas. A step in the right direction is rejected because it is not a leap; the dream is for all problems to be solved at once or not at all.
Politics after the Peak
Before the oil age comes to a complete close, let’s hope someone rehabilitates Jimmy Carter as one of the most prescient Presidents ever to hold the office. Congress might even rename an airport for him — just before it is shut down forever.
