Russia’s plight: A cautionary tale about the need to relocalize
What kind of mess would we find ourselves in, should a sudden reduction in the scope of trade relations visit the entire globe – a reduction precipitated by extremely high oil prices?
Kurt Cobb
The maturation of Matt Simmons, energy-industry investment banker and peak oil guru
Simmons’ alarm over the lack of a “Plan B” to replace our status-quo petroleum dependence has lately turned him into something more like an Ecotopian than a soldier for nonstop industrialization of the entire world.
Environment – June 24
U.S. panel backs data on global warming / Moms, guilt, and climate catastrophe / Reduce aviation’s expansion or give up on tackling climate change / Norway sees N.Sea as CO2 dump, but legal hurdles /
US: Surge of population in the exurbs continues /
Getting to the [climate change] holdouts
Other energy – June 24
California highlights U.S. oil import dependence / Carnegie Mellon researchers like switchgrass /
EU in doubt over alternatives to oil / IEA: clean technology could cut world energy consumption in half / IEA: world not on course for sustainable energy / Coal in China / Age taking its toll on interstates
Politics & economics – Jun 23
A Russian view of energy tensions /
Military move on Iran could triple oil price-Saudi /
Gas redistribution in Eurasia /
China’s first foray into Russian oil / Oil firms debate Gulf leases /
Exxon Mobil CEO calls for an end to ethanol subsidies
Italy gears up for international peak oil conference
ASPO’s fifth annual gathering will showcase top oil depletion experts; governments, industry and media taking notice; new focus on dealing with dwindling supplies. July 18-19 in Pisa.
Peak oil – June 23
Friedman’s Addicted to Oil documentary this weekend on Discovery / Podcast – Kunstler: PO Impacts on Transportation and Cities / Michael Ruppert’s economic forecast / T. Boone Pickens on Charlie Rose / Yuba Gals “Peak Moment TV” on the road / James Schlesinger: Thinking seriously about energy and oil’s future
Our black future
The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don’t have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.
Portland blazes new trails for the peak oil world
A trip to the progressive city reveals why its citizens are leading the world in awareness of Peak Oil issues.
Other energy – Jun 22
The New Ethanol Future Demands a New Public Policy /
Elusive cornucopia: why it will be hard to reap the benefit of biofuel /
California sets “clean energy” oil tax on ballot /
Ship It, Ship It Good /
Club of Rome wants deserts to become source of renewable energy /
Nuclear Power: A Leap into the Dark Energy Chasm
Clinton raises alarm about oil depletion
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world’s oil reserves. In a June 17 speech Clinton said a “significant number of petroleum geologists” have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production.
A Torrent of Darkness
In the not-too-distant future, the big leadership of the world is going to awaken to the seriousness of what I have just told you about global warming in the previous few paragraphs. What do I mean when I say “big leadership”? I mean all of it, the top honchos, whether U.S. or Chinese or Russian or European, or whomever.
