United States – May 20
FT: US begins to break foreign oil addiction
America must face the harsh realities over oil
Robert Bryce: Delusions of energy independence
Staff
Energy producers – May 20
Bush to Arab nations: You’re running out of oil
Russian energy chief urges gas export rethink
Saudi Arabia: The king versus the radicals
Chasing solutions – May 20
Jamais Cascio: How many Earths? (the real key to sustainability)
Chasing utopia, family imagines no possessions
Symbols can overshadow substance
Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
Prices & supplies – May 20
Oil rises on speculation Saudi supply increase won’t cut prices
UK’s Brown calls for end to the power of Opec
Not enough oil is lament of BP, Exxon
Peak oil movement – May 20
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Peak oil – May 20
Financial Times: Fears over oil supply move into the mainstream (‘Are the peak oilists right?’)
Jeffrey Brown’s warning on oil producers’ own rising consumption gains Wall St backing
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices
Has peak oil as a meme “tipped”? (out of futures backwardation and into contango)
CNN on peak oil
Why planning for $200 barrel oil is so important
With the oil price looking pretty settled above $126 a barrel, what does the UK Government estimate the future oil price to be? Clearly one would imagine that as the most responsible body in the land, charged with making long term decisions that affect us all, they would have their fingers on the pulse of this one. Unfortunately the official position is as insulting as it is pathetic.
Renewables – May 20
Stockholm: Separating food waste is profitable
Burning wood: issues for the future
Quietly, wind farms spread footprint in U.S
Dr. Harry Zervos: Photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon
Dysfunction – May 19
Flying cars
The Surge (in lame excuses)
When cars compete with people for food
Peak Oil Review – May 19th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Iran’s Production Cut
– Energy Briefs
Distillates
The evidence is mounting that the US might just encounter the first real crisis of the oil depletion age before the year is out. The crisis at first will be one of spiraling prices for diesel and heating oil that will cause considerable economic havoc, and then there may be actual shortages right here in the United States.
Peak oil and the oil export–import game
The president of ASPO-International was invited to write a comment to the article “The market sets high oil prices to tell us what to do” by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times.
