Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Media and public opinion in Germany reached a turning point on May 21 when the Energy Watch Group presented its report „Global Oil Supply“ study in Berlin’s main press center. The report stated: “Peak oil ist jetzt” (Peak oil is now). In German:
Zukunft der weltweiten Erdölversorgung (EWG)
Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview)
Daniel Yergin: Ă–l am Wendepunkt
Airbus-Chef warnt vor Kollaps der Luftfahrtindustrie
ASPO-Switzerland (English)
Oil Exporters unable to keep up with demand
Global demand squeezing natural gas supply
The Economist: “Peak oil” or a speculative bubble? Neither, really
Beware the hunt for scapegoats
Dr. David Goodstein calls for “Manhattan Project”-level research on green energy
Reuters: Peak oil: Fact or fallacy
Peak oil protest in Adelaide
Not Sarkozy. Not Gordon Brown. Not the Wall Street Journal.
British Airways to increase fuel surcharges
Goodbye cheap flights, welcome back real travel
Plug-in hybrids power the grid
How Toyota plans to survive $4 (make that $5) gas
A big reason for eating locally — it tastes better.
The conference begins with an introduction by U.S. Congressional Peak Oil Caucus member Vern Ehlers and a keynote by Dr. David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
Only rice, wheat, corn, beans, and other grain crops are productive and durable enough to provide the dietary foundation of calories and protein. Grains made up about the same portion of the ancient Greek diet as they do of ours. We’ve been stuck with grains for 10,000 years, and our dependence won’t be broken any time soon.
Thomas L. Friedman: Truth or consequences (about energy policy)
Australia: Fuel price debate ignores real issue
China says `unwise’ to import more oil at high prices
China: Coal, oil, gas, power, agricultural goods supply must be ensured
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups
Exxon’s Texas-size war chest
For Big Oil, does the future look too much like the past?
“Things” are certainly unfolding quickly now — the mainstream is filled with energy news, rising costs of food, job losses. Some of us are moving beyond the “peak oil education” stage to “hey, there are some things we can do!” moments with the newly awakened. It’s a critical time to be awake, active, and available. This is what we anticipated, and is what we’ve been preparing for.
So why doesn’t it feel good?
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and consumption
– Europe
– India
