Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dmitry Orlov It is not necessary for the United States to embrace the tenets of command economy and central planning to match the Soviet lackluster performance in this area. We have our own methods that are working almost as well. I call them “boondoggles.” They are solutions to problems that result in more severe problems than those they attempt to solve.
The Patch: Peak supply vs. peak demand
Peak Oil Production in Russia Suggests Worldwide Supplies on the Brink
Oil Cartel Keeps Cuts on Track
Simmons: Is oil’s future sustainable?
La Fin Du Petrole (2013-Oil No More)
Facing the Oil Problem
Advice to Pres. Obama (#5): One Engineer’s Advice for Energy Policy
David Korten: “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”
Hard Realities: Why Understating the Cost of Dealing With Climate Change Hurts
Icelandic PM becomes world’s first leader to step down over banking system crisis
Bad news: we’re back to 1931. Good news: it’s not 1933 yet
Repudiate the Carter Doctrine
Sainsbury’s to send unsold food to UK biomass plant
The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol
Trees, Grass May Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning Gulf
From Nuisance to Asset: The Greening of Alleyways
Thermal Storage Mass
Big Homes, 1-Person Households are Main Causes of Consumer Energy Waste
Expert sees housing growing more green
Bagging bargains – at a price
Put some of those old clothes to good (re)use
‘Textiles import will lead to bloodbath’
World warned of ‘food crunch’ threat
Over 25 millions Kenyans face starvation
World Must Double Food Production by 2050: FAO Chief
Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon
Action that President Barack Obama will take Monday to allow California and other states to require stricter tailpipe emissions and automobile fuel efficiency standards shouldn’t just please environmentalists. If you’re concerned about Peak Oil and the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, this is also a win for energy conservation.
In recent years, peak oil realists have done a tremendous job sounding the alarm about the need for a concerted national effort to leave oil before it leaves us. Now, our mission must turn urgently from the educational to the political. With the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C. and the sting of $4/gallon gas still a recent memory, we have a unique opportunity to present the federal government with a do-or-die call to action.
A weekly review including:
– World Production
– OPEC still cutting
– Obama’s first week
– Briefs
Now it’s time for predictions for 2009. 1. The economy will muddle along. 2. A 2010 recovery will come just in time to collide with more fundamental problems. 3. Oil prices: we’ll spend a few months in the $30s and $40s and then end the year between $60 and $70/barrel.
