Media & persuasion – Oct 5
New ‘positive change’ magazines thrive
Scott Adams (“Dilbert”): So you think you have an energy policy
Noam Chomsky on changes in the media
Staff
Cities – Oct 5
Gas tax in SF Bay Area?
Global warming requires local solutions
Congestion relief = climate relief?
Biofuels – Oct 5
Cellulosic ethanol: running cars on lawn cuttings
Biofuel bandwagon slows as feedstock prices surge
BBC: Will biofuel leave the poor hungry?
Green fuels will save the earth – or not
Energy industry – Oct 5
Rising costs, shortages curb rush to cash in on oil boom
Engineer shortage hampers oil, gas production
Big Oil not kidding about pulling out of Alberta
Doomsday: Alberta stands accused
Geopolitics – Oct 5
Geopolitical feedback loops in peak oil
The E.P.R. targets Mexico’s energy industry
Japan finds it hard to tap Africa for oil, gas
China and the competition for energy resources
Russian oil industry: Foreign, domestic interests
Oil prices – Kenya & Africa due for crude awakening
United States – Oct 5
Forget your silver bullet (unconventional fuels)
Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
Big Coal tries to recruit military to kindle a market
Air Force pursuing CTL fuel plant
United Kingdom – Oct 5
Alarm bells ring about North Sea output
Tories call for new industrial revolution to tackle climate change
Britain near bottom for energy efficiency
World’s largest offshore wind farm approved for Kent
Poverty of vision
Economics – Oct 5
Dollar’s double blow from Vietnam and Qatar
Can a plucky U.S. economy surmount $80 oil?
Life and debt in suburbia
Finance Round-Up from TOD:Canada
The peak oil crisis: On contemplating $100 oil
The Wall Street Journal’s bold conclusion that we can handle $100 “quite well” may be perfectly true, until you ask “then what?” and the only possible answer is higher and higher prices.
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
Toward an ecotechnic society
It’s popular to talk of modern industrial civilization as the most advanced form of human society. Ecological considerations suggest otherwise. In hindsight, will the industrial age be seen as the first clumsy step in an evolutionary process — and where might that process lead?
Burma – Oct 3
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
