Peak Oil Review – March 24th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– A Week to Remember
– Decoupling
– Diesel
– Energy Briefs
Tom Whipple
What M. King Hubbert might say today
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Can less oil consumption in the West lead to lower global demand?
Until recently, there has been a constant refrain to the effect that Western economies seem undeterred by higher oil prices. Demand destruction does not seem to be taking place within OECD, even at today’s high numbers.
“Hard Times Come Again”- voices of those who have been there before
If you still have a few teensy, eensy, weensy doubts about whether the magic of nationalized debt will fix everything for you, I thought it might be instructive for all of us to sit back and listen just a little to people who have already been through a really bad economic crisis
Transport – Mar 23
Truckers slowing down to save fuel
Tyre prices to be indexed against oil: Michelin
Ancient use of rafts to transport goods demonstrated
Reducing your carbon footprint from travel
Peak oil – Mar 23
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
Oil prices and supplies – March 23
Double-digit oil price is history: R S Sharma, head of India’s ONGC
Lukoil won’t send oil to German refiners in April
Cheney and Saudis: No short-term fix for oil prices
Things are beyond OPEC’s control
Oil falls on economy worries
Oil may fall as dollar rises, demand wanes
Biofuels – Mar 23
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
Coal & nuclear – Mar 23
The rising price of coal
Air Force prod aids coal-to-fuel plans
Britain and France to take nuclear power to the world
United States – Mar 23
James Hansen on climate change, science censorship and peak oil
Joseph Kennedy: We need a new bargain with Big Oil
Slump moves from Wall St. to Main St.
Climate-friendly Republican – ex-Congressman Boehlert
US `wide open’ to crippling power blackout
Climate – Mar 23
Scientists warn of soot effect on climate – more damage than previously thought
World’s worst environmental black spots
Poor are sidelined on climate change solutions
Indonesia warned of looming water crisis
Geopolitical – Mar 23
China, not Tibet, comes first for Asian states
China unveils renewable energy development plan
Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns UK minister
