Mexican oil – May 1
Mexico’s oil industry woes – a hopeful turn
Control of Pemex is about national pride
Untapped oil, overtapped politics
Proposals unlikely to improve Mexico’s oil output
Staff
Rising energy costs and the future of hospital work
Fossil fuel costs will continue to rise and eventually the healthcare system will be forced to downsize – just as the Baby Boomers and (possibly) climate change effects – inundate the system.
(Paper delivered at a nurses’ convention)
Australia – May 1
We hoped for better, Kevin (Australia 2020)
Solar? Wind? Forget it, we’re goin’ to gas!
We’re at the point where the desire line splits
United States – May 1
Truckers protest high costs for fuel
The fossil bloc makes its play on climate
Maryland, my Maryland – Lacrimosa
The next president of the U.S. – May 1
Robert Rapier’s advice (The Oil Drum)
The candidates pump gas
NY Times: The gas-guzzler gambit
Clinton gas-tax proposal criticized
The coming crunch – May 1
Chevron CEO ponders prices
The coal crunch is materializing
Hudson Institute: Plenty of oil for everyone
Geopolitics – May 1
Michael Klare interview: global fight for oil
Why did Saudi Arabia let the dollar dip?
Surprises – May 1
Shell ditches renewable stake amid fears of a retreat to carbons
Nuclear’s CO2 cost ‘will climb’
Rockefellers call for change at Exxon Mobil
How wind turbines are subsidized by fossil fuels
The waking up syndrome
The threat of what we face is huge and relentless. All who awaken to the enormity of the challenges before us still slip and slide somewhere along this continuum at times. One day we may feel encouraged with our forward action, the next we may be back to despairing.
Before fossil fuels, Earth’s minerals kept CO2 in check
Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely tuned natural feedback system — a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed.
The peak oil crisis: the half-life for air travel
The day of the ubiquitous kerosene-powered jet transport which revolutionized travel for many of us in the second half of the 20th century is likely to be shorter than most realize.
Keeping fed
In spite of the monumental failures of Soviet agriculture, the overall structure of Soviet-style food delivery proved to be paradoxically resilient in the face of economic collapse and disruption. The combination of local food stockpiles administered by politicians conditioned to treat bread riots as career-ending calamities, the prevalence of government institutions that attended to the sustenance of their employees and plenty of kitchen gardens, meant that there was no starvation and very little malnutrition. But will fate be as kind to the United States? (Book excerpt)
