Venezuela and Exxon – Feb 12
Venezuela threatens to cut US oil
Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo
Daniel Ortega brands Exxon’s move as a US attack
Chavez’s big oil bluff
Oilsands can’t fill gap if Venezuela cuts oil
Staff
Peak oil – Feb 12
Monbiot: Even capitalists now admit the oil crisis is real
Cantarell update & production projection
Peak oil on ABC-Australia’s Counterpoint
ASPO-USA looking for executive director
What megabubble will bring us down?
When does peak oil arrive?
Will candidates debate PO?
Dave Cohen’s suburban savanna
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
Some Q&A about that $100,000 CERA bet
“Betting on depletion is like betting on rust. Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 [now $100,000] that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.”
Peak Oil Review – February 11th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil and Food
– South Africa’s Power Shortage
– Nigeria
– Energy Briefs
Chavez vs ExxonMobil war escalates
Chavez is ratcheting the rhetoric against the US government as well as against Exxon. We can expect the oil markets to take notice as they re-open in the morning tomorrow.
Pakistan problem: Washington’s perspective
The author believes that as part of a policy to establish greater control over the world’s energy resources, the United States has instituted a policy of covertly engineering Pakistan’s dismemberment.
Peak oil – Feb 10
CERA vs. Peak Oil: it’s getting serious
Oil crisis ahead? ‘Peakniks’ build for future
Queensland plans to cut fossil fuel use
Transport – Feb 10
Aircraft numbers may double by 2026
Planes, trains, automobiles – emissions compared
Ethical funds to drop airlines
Food & agriculture – Feb 10
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Energy sources – Feb 10
Coalmine fire put out after half a century
Declining coal reserves add to energy worries
Natural gas may boom by default
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
Green laws and regulation risk energy crisis, say Europe’s power companies
More, more, more – Feb 10
Retail therapy: Does sadness mean spending?
My cortex made me buy it
Slow sex: Moving toward informed pleasure
The perpetual state of desire that we call ‘human nature’
The ecological economy
