Free E-Book: The Oil Age is Over
Matt Savinar of the website www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net has made his book, The Oil Age is Over available for free download between now and the US presidential elections.
Matt Savinar
China warns of more power cuts
China has warned that several of its key regions face more power shortages this winter and spring.
Oil production in U.S. tumbles to 54-year low
U.S. oil production plunged to a 54-year low after Hurricane Ivan slashed through the Gulf of Mexico two weeks ago, sinking rigs, buckling pipelines and triggering underwater mudslides that sheared the legs off platforms.
First U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
This November, people from around the country will gather in Yellow Springs to hear nationally recognized speakers address the pressing issue of ‘Peak Oil’ and the benefits of small community and low-energy solutions.
U.S. and France take different tack on oil conservation
The United States, land of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and air-conditioned McMansions, might do well to turn to the country Americans love to hate for lessons on how to curb its reliance on imported oil: France.
The world has lost Iraq’s oil
The costs and benefits of America’s occupation of Iraq vary, according to proponents and opponents, except when it comes to oil exports.
New snag to Gazprom-Rosneft merger
The absorption of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft by the gas giant Gazprom appears to have run into trouble amid press reports yesterday of furious infighting among top Kremlin officials over the deal.
Oil’s not well with the world
Some ominous words from a G-7 official tend to corroborate the ‘alarmist’ view that the world is running out of oil and that high prices are here to stay — a structural phenomenon rather than a spike.
The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil / Peak Oil is a Zionist Scam
Two articles alleging that the peak oil hypothesis is a myth propogated for Isreali zionist interests.
The ‘Peak Oil’ cult
The idea that the world is about to hit some kind of oil crisis, on a grand and even cataclysmic scale, is not new. All very scary, except for the fact that the validity of any of this starts to fade on closer inspection.
The 2007 Peak Oil date explained
‘The real point is not so much the exact date of peak but the statement that the First Half of the Oil Age, which was characterised by growing production, is about to be followed by the Second Half when oil production is set to decline along with all that depends upon it.’
Pump Dreams: Is energy independence an impossible goal?
Given the public’s ignorance about energy issues, and the entrenched interests that dominate the industry, many analysts are skeptical about the prospects for change. Jaffe believes that it will take a repeat of what happened in the seventies to force meaningful reforms.
