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.
Year: 2006
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.
What the mainstream media are not telling you about the run up in oil prices
Most of the mainstream media attribute the run up in oil prices to geopolitical tensions. However, a careful examination of recent supply data suggests a different reason – oil importers are bidding against each other for available total petroleum
Sundry items
What can one individual do? It helped to look at the impact of the seemingly, small things we are doing. Take toilet paper.
Pollan’s new book on the U.S. food chain – the “oil diet”
The American corn diet is really an oil diet. Corn, as Pollan puts it, “is the SUV of plants. Growing it the way we do requires it to guzzle fuel in the form of fertilizer, about a quarter to a third of a gallon of petroleum for each bushel.” Processing the corn requires even more energy, as does moving those corn-derived products around the country.
Alternative energy and the American enterprise
If our political system fails to deliver a viable energy policy, then business consumers will be forced to take matters into their own hands
Environment – Apr 18
Global warming skeptic also led tobacco industry campaign /
Krugman on Raymond and Exxon /
Japan hot and cold on warming /
America’s report card on the environment /
Dust Bowl uncertainty grows in Iraq
Politics & economics – Apr 18
Sudan, Chad, oil and genocide /
The flight forward – links /
For leading Exxon to its riches, $144,573 a day
Other energy – Apr 18
The week in sustainable mobility /
Kevin Phillips interview: America under the influence of oil /
One billion cars
Peak oil – Apr 18
Lundberg on the Washington Petrocollapse conference May 6 /
Personal finance adviser Jane Bryant Quinn on peak oil /
Plateau continues, aided by outages…
Full text of San Franciso peak oil resolution
RESOLVED, That [we] acknowledge the unprecedented challenges of Peak Oil [and that we] support the adoption of a global Oil Depletion Protocol
Rob Newman’s “History of Oil”
The comedian and author gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion. (VIDEO)
