Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Oil prices to remain high /
Will Iran’s nuclear standoff cause a world energy crisis? /
Iran vows that oil prices will not go down /
Germany announces new energy plan /
Oilman urges dear oil for West, cheap for Africa
Chris Skrebowski, ASPO member and editor of Petroleum Review has presented his latest update of Megaprojects, a list of oil fields planned to come on stream in the next years, now up to 2013.
Peak oilers around the globe, get your spreadsheets ready and do your calcs!
Ireland is among the most sensitive nations to rising oil prices and therefore will be among the most vulnerable post-peak. Rob Hopkin’s take on the Forfas report on the impacts of peak oil on the Irish economy.
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
The US media have two choices regarding the Peak Oil issue. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, you can now have either your honor or the status quo. If you do nothing regarding Peak Oil, you will soon have neither the status quo nor your honor.
TIME has an outstanding special issue April 3 on climate change. Many of the articles are online.
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
Mapping as an infill tool /
HP wants your Old PCs back /
A better shade of green for Wall Street /
The small but beautiful ways to save the planet /
Anything into oil (thermal conversion)
Briquette that heats homes and saves trees in Kenya /
Sterilizing water with solar radiation /
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate /
Nice lawn, M’Lord, but please don’t eat the grass /
How to stop guzzling gas
‘There’s no planet B’ (UK comedian Robert Newman interview) /
Heinberg in Peoria /
African Union: ‘Era of cheap oil is over’
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
Yergin: The world is waking up to new era of power politics /
A role for oil companies in setting climate policy? /
Iran still insisting on Persian Gulf oil bourse /
Woodside, Chevron to benefit from Asia LNG demand /
Make your own Chevy Tahoe commercial /
Soon we’ll pay the true price of air travel
