Peak Oil – August 18
Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready
Geoscientist: Peak Oil Now? If so, Oil Prices Not Likely to Decline–Ever
Waking up to the threat of ‘peak oil’
Oilwatch Monthly – August 2008
Staff
Peak Oil Review – August 18
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Oil from the Caspian
– Chinese Demand
– Briefs
Georgia & geopolitics – Aug 17
Krugman: The Great Illusion
Jad Mouawad of NY Times: US efforts threatened
TOD: Georgia discussion
The bear’s Achilles heel
CSM: Petropolitics at heart of Russia-Georgia clash
Georgia Pipeline is new Strait of Hormuz
Michael Klare interview
Holiday in UK shows Peak Oil decline is well on its way
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
It’s all in your head – Aug 17
Psychologists determine what it means to think ‘green’
Are we science-savvy enough to make informed decisions?
AP’s ethnography of news consumption
How anti-intellectualism is destroying America
Brave New America (inverted totalitarianism)
Peak oil and prices – Aug 17
Jeff Vail: Theory of disruptions to oil & resource supply
Al Franken touts energy proposals
Calif Atty General Jerry Brown: Ignore peak oil and be caught with your pants down
Bull on energy, a bear on nearly everything else: Eric Sprott
Murti’s detractors eat crow
WaPo: Prices driving increased extraction
Why does abiotic oil theory ignite peak oil theorists’ fulminations?
Deep thought – Aug 17
David Holmgren interview (part 2)
Holmgren: Relevance of mainstream sustainability to energy descent
Delusion Revolution: on the road to extinction and in denial
Jimmy Carter’s speech is remembered for something he never said – we should recall what he did say
United States – Aug 17
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
Down, down, down on the farm – Aug 17
Mexico sugar output may fall 3.1% on fertilizer prices
Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point
Fuel costs are eating farmers’ profits
Corn bonanza won’t cut food prices
Fertilizer, feed costs pinch dairies
Wheat residue too valuable for fuel, scientist says
Transport – Aug 17
Downtowns across the U.S. see streetcars in their future
Think flying stinks? It may get worse
Green fuel for the airline industry?
France’s August traffic jam
Economics – Aug 17
Indians trapped by debt as easy money dries Up
Dr. Doom: Nouriel Roubini predicting crisis in the US economy
Bracing for inflation
Energy plan lacks clear goals
In “Deep Survival: Who lives, who dies, and why,” Laurence Gonzales describes a climb up Yosemite’s Cathedral Peak … They’d timed things from their 4 a.m. start to get to the summit and back the same day. As Gonzales says, however, “The annoying thing about plans is how rare it is for everything to go just right.” .. In July, the Department of Public Service released the draft Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan. Like the climbers, the Department checked yesterday’s forecast.
