Housing & urban design – May 26
McMansions no more
Ceilings come down to earth
Barcelona as sustainable city model
Staff
Transport – May 26
Fuel suppliers demand airlines pay cash in advance
Houston has lift-off as oil price rises (airline worries)
End of the road for British motorists
Railroads 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks
North America’s Amish community: least likely to be devastated by collapse
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization’s collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.
Peak oil – May 26
Dallas Morning News: The end of cheap oil?
Peak oil on Dutch television
Australian headlines: If only they’d read The Oil Drum
“Seven Sisters” have become “Five Little Brothers”
For many it comes as a shock that Big Oil has transformed into the ”five little brothers”. Today, the world’s seven largest oil companies are completely outside the control of the U.S. Senate.
Indonesia hikes fuel prices – May 25
Fuel prices rise nearly 30 percent
Angry protests
Cash to the poor to soften the blow
Oil producers – May 25
Non-OPEC oil output growth slows to a trickle
Pemex: April oil output drop biggest in 12 years
Mexican oil production falls 9% in first 4 months of year
Middle East: would you supply oil resources if you were in their place?
Food & agriculture – May 25
Now we face the £6 fish supper
Is fertilizer the ‘most important business on Earth?’
Food security requires new approach to water
United States – May 25
Relentless rise in oil prices tests economy’s resilience
Bombing Iran: the clamor persists
DOT: Americans driving at historic lows
House talks oil prices, questions Bodman
Deep thought – May 25
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
People get ready – May 25
Kunstler in Washington Post: “Wake up, America. We’re driving toward disaster”
Ben Stein in NYT: “Running out of fuel, but not out of ideas”
Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare
Prices – May 25
This is only round one
Oil economist: Iraq war trebled oil costs
$100-plus oil as China motors ahead
Dec ’08 crude tells the tale of oil’s surge
James Hamilton: Understanding crude oil prices
Whither the price of oil?
