Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Funk The dramatic increase in global demand for oil, and the resulting price spiral in the last couple of months, may be early warnings of a fundamental change in the economies of industrialized nations.
The first two sections of the ‘Hirsch Report’ to the US Dept. of Energy on Peak Oil formatted for the web.
An unexpected and courageous speech on efficiency, conservation, and population control by an ultra-conservative Member of Congress needs to be brought to the attention of all. Readers, please feel free to borrow and customize to send to your US Representative.
Deloitte & Touche LLP has urged regulators worldwide to update their oil and gas reserves reporting requirements and to expand the scope of mandatory disclosures in annual reports and financial statements.
We must apply the same can-do attitude and the same brainpower and technical resources to the alternatives-to-oil issue as we did to landing a man on the moon.
The United States rode out $55 a barrel oil last fall. But some economists say the latest jump in that key commodity poses a greater threat to the nation’s economic growth.
Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President George Bush.
Crude oil rose to a record $56.69 a barrel as a promise of increased output from OPEC failed to ease concern that demand for fuels is rising faster than supply.
In northern Russia, where vast deposits of natural gas lie waiting to be tapped, Gazprom, the state-owned Russian energy giant, is hatching a multibillion-dollar strategy that would lock a swath of Europe from Germany to Britain into long-term delivery contracts, in a move that would bypass Ukraine and Belarus and anchor Russia to Europe more closely over time.
The president of the Russian Union of Oil and Gas Producers said on Wednesday, March 16, that the country’s oil exports are in danger unless a program of geological exploration of new oil deposits is introduced.
Thought-provoking comments from an alert Newfoundland reader, following on from the ‘methane-burps’ fears covered previously. Could suitably placed wind turbines reduce climate mixing, slow the warming of arctic regions, and so avoid catastrophic methane emissions from thawing tundra?
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq’s oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC’s Newsnight has revealed.
