Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Mass Rally Paralyses Lagos / French anger grows at fuel prices / Plastics industry reeling from oil, gas hikes – Can’t pass on costs / Aus. Minister admits cluelessness on oil solutions / Why China is not backing Bush on Iran / Guzzling Resale Value / Soaring oil prices fuel smuggling in Cambodia / McDonald’s feels petrol pain
Across Central America, where a quarter of the people live on less than $1 a day, the cost of filling gas tanks and generating electricity have soared in recent months in line with world oil prices.
Not all-bad story, some signs of hope.
Four serious papers and a striking set of quotes from the Proceedings of the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome, a special issue explicitly addressing oil depletion and the ‘problematique’.
US Oil shale – 20 years before reach 1mil/b/day / At Time of Epic Storms, Oil Industry Thinks Anew / US Dept Interior says onshore damage ‘major hindrance’ to Gulf oil recovery / Matt Simmons steps down as CEO of Simmons & Co. International
A major union is pushing for new travel allowances to cushion the impact of rising petrol prices on its members.
How Big Should A Small Farm Be? / New religion required / Building green always made sense — now it’s beginning to pay off / reenhouse emissions reduced by biodiesel / Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s
Market analysts testimony to US Senate ENR committee / A Prudent Bear meets Pimental / Another Way of Looking at CERA / Simmons interviewed in Foriegn Policy magazine / An Interview with Michael Ruppert / Peak Oil in Guatemala and the U.S.: Energy Crises at Both Ends of the Development Spectrum / Policies for Sustainable Food Systems, National and Global
Worries over winter natural gas supplies for US Gulf of Mexico area / Panic buying begins as motorists fear petrol blockades / Car industry woes / Brown calls for oil market change / Toyota Says It May Put Gas-Electric Engines in All Its Vehicles / British Energy extends Dungeness B nuke station to 2018 / EnCana selling Ecuador oil assets to Chinese group / Branson talks of oil refinery
A study for the city of Willits (California) reports that locally-based sustainable energy could replace their oil-based imports, but only if conservation cut area energy use by more than half.
Heavy fuel sales ahead of UK tax protest / US Congress revisits fuel-economy regulation / Storm Stretches Refiners Past a Perilous Point / NYTimes editorial on rationing, infrastructure / High Diesel Prices Yield Bumper Crop of Thieves / Canadian Imperial Bank: Oil May Average $93 in 2007 / UK: ‘Face down the protests’ / Ageing North Sea not helped enough by $60 oil
UK Deputy PM links global warming to Katrina / The Storm Next Time / Can’t blame global warming, at least not this time / Al Gore on Katrina, Global Warming / Burning Atlanta / Time to head for the hills? / Storm Warnings / Unofficial reading of the signs smeared
Oil Drum on Physics of Physical work / Kunstler on Rocks in our Heads / US Rep. Bartlett interview / Peak Oil and Britain / 2007: Solving Peak Oil [press rel.] / Agenda of New York Petrocollapse conference / NZ Labor Energy Policy admits early peak possible / Oil, the times, and Pascal’s wager / End of oil era in sight, Rifkin warns / Simmons, Kunstler book reviews / “Katrina’s aftermath is glimpse of world’s energy future” / Our float down the River de Nial
