Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Astyk interview: Low energy methods for home food preservation and storage
Gene Logsdon: First spring things
Hopeless gardeners – begin on the balcony
Staff
Oil – Apr 9
FT: Forget about ‘peak oil’ and instead focus on ‘peak power’
State oil industry’s future sets off tussle in Mexico
Chevron reportedly in talks to tap Iraq’s oil
Lost at sea
What effects have oil price increases had on real U.S. GDP growth in the last 7 years? To be honest, nobody really knows—yet. We will all find out eventually.
Master Conservers
For those who lived during the last round of energy crises, grain shortages and the surging price of crude oil bring back memories of the Seventies. Some of the responses to that earlier time of troubles may offer useful tools for the round now looming over the industrial world.
Food crisis – Apr 9
Food price rises threaten global security – UN
Paul Krugman: Grains gone wild
Riots in Haiti and Africa as food prices skyrocket
Fear of rice riots in Far East
Food prices rise beyond means of poorest in Africa
Energy industries – Apr 8
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
Geopolitics – Apr 8
New book from Michael Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
China’s shopping spree for resources
Battle for Basra timeline: footsteps to US war in Iran?
Peak oil – Apr 8
Matt Simmons sounds the alarm at EIA conference
Kazakhstan may impose oil duty from 2008
Minister: Australia’s own ‘peak oil’
Trinidad: Sweet in we mouth
IEA’s Birol says oil prices to stay high
Transport – Apr 8
Ten reasons why NYC’s congestion pricing plan went belly up
Truckers hit the brakes over high price of diesel
Railroads expanding at a record clip
More trains for Grand Central Station
Deep thought – Apr 8
Neighborliness, innovation and sustainability
SciAm: The economist has no clothes (Brother, can you spare a planet?)
A Manhattan or Apollo Project for energy? No!
Business Week: Is this our Malthusian moment?
Turner talks of global change, cannibalism
Climate – Apr 8
Map animation of greenhouse gas sources – ‘like a beating heart’
Will capitalism survive climate change? The South’s dilemma
Engdahl sees climate and PO as hype from elites
Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Prices, Production and Exports
– Electricity Shortages and Diesel
– Rice, Inflation and Oil
– Massachusetts Hosts a Meeting
– Energy Briefs
