Bubble – May 25
Oil goes vertical
Is $130 oil a bubble?
Slick investors strike riches as they cash in on peak oil
Oil goes vertical
Is $130 oil a bubble?
Slick investors strike riches as they cash in on peak oil
Are speculators fueling oil run-up?
Speculators draw the heat
Controversial theory: traders to blame
Oil insiders say investors driving up prices
Oil trade’s winners now reap the wrath
Gambling with the futures (primer)
James D. Hamilton on oil speculation
Ban on futures trading: Anti-farmer, not anti-inflation
Pickens: Oil production is reaching its peak
IEA inquiry to examine ‘narrow margin’ in 2012
50 MPs sign peak oil Commons motion
Stating that above-ground factors are limiting oil supply is not merely an observation. Rather, it is part of a propaganda strategy supporting a policy agenda which almost certainly reflects the views of CERA’s clients, many of whom are major oil producers.
The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end of the era of growth. “The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other,” writes Holmgren.
Why oil prices have hit record highs
OPEC Sec-gen not worried by aging oil fields
NYT:
Economic toll mounts from oil prices
Where the oil money goes
Oilwatch Monthly – May 2008
Mexico’s battle over oil
Export Land Model in Mexico
Limits of economic growth in Latin America
Savings from Arctic drilling – 75 cents a barrel
Oil industry, lawmakers aim to lift bans on drilling
Will domestic drilling decrease prices?
The same old song on high gas prices
Greg Palast: Obama’s secret war profiteering tax
$135 and rising … has cheap oil gone for ever?
Ken Deffeyes on Radio 4BC
Living with costly crude
Soaring prices are a warning that we need to change
Energy Watch Group’s updated report on oil supply (German)
Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America