Peak oil – June 28
New Scientist: ‘Oil: The final warning’
Democracy Now: A look at the new geopolitics of energy
What can history teach us about forecasts of energy use?
Peak oil profits ARM processors
Staff
ODAC Newsletter – June 27
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
The link between oil and xenophobia
As we get closer to the peak in global oil production, we are likely to see greater pressures particularly on poorer communities but constantly moving up the income scale. The intensifying pressures are likely to open new fault lines in our society
Peak oil – June 27
WSJ: Former Saudi officials at odds over ‘peak’ theory
Rep. Bartlett speech on peak oil
Mark Lynas : After the oil crunch?
And so it goes: the story of Kashagan (Caspian oil field)
Q&A with Marcel Coutu of Syncrude
All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.
Prices & supplies – June 27
Oil surges above $140 to record as Libya warns of output cut
$7-a-gallon gas, 10-million fewer cars: Rubin (CIBC)
700 militants arrested this year, Saudis say – suspicion of planning oil attacks
United States – June 27
Parties split on how to expand offshore drilling
Democrat and environmentalist turns traitor on drilling
Election spin 2008
Energy policy – June 27
Noel Edmonds on how UK government is ignoring the energy crisis
Colorado mines prof sees potential in energy crisis
Beyond CRM 2.0: Disruptive force of oil and a changing energy infrastructure
Solutions & sustainability – June 27
Profile of bio-regionalist Stephanie Mills
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more (software)
Introducing a new currency – the “Carbon”
Burbank Water & Power: Smart grids, WiFi, renewables
Deep thought – June 27
The problem with Big Green
Scenius, or communal genius
Methane burps & tele everything
Crisis & collapse – June 27
Thomas Friedman and his book, Hot, Flat And Crowded
Kunstler on wishful thinking
Mike Davis: Welcome to the next epoch – humanity’s meltdown (“Anthropocene”)
Sixty days, next year (diary of the future)
Peak oil interviews – June 27
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
