Oil prices and supplies – Nov 11
Tempests, truckers and tribesmen – another week in the oil market
Brazil hopes huge oil discovery will propel it into big league
Opec under pressure as $100 barrel creates oil panic in the West
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Deep thought – Nov 11
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
Peak Oil – Nov 11
Megadisasters: Oil Apocalypse on History Channel Nov 13
Independent: peak oil in sight
Irish Times: Peak oil meets climate change
Gwynne Dyer: After peak oil
Connecticut peak oil caucus
United States – Nov 11
The economic consequences of Mr. Bush
In the bond market, a bleak prognosis for Iraq
A sick graph: energy research expenditure vs cost of the Iraq war.
Hard times – Nov 11
$100 oil to put Myanmar junta over a barrel again
Recycling a necessity not fad in Cairo
Zimbabwe: rural folk cut off from ‘civilisation’
Opinions of oil company executives on peak oil
The views of the oil industry on Peak Oil are divided, ranging from a non-event to getting there fast. Here I try to give the opinions of oil company executives about Peak Oil and related issues.
None dare say it was for oil
Many inconvenient questions come tumbling out of the assertion that the Iraq War is about oil. …The simple fact is that if the Iraq War is really about oil (and I believe that it is), then this means that the current official story, namely, that a smooth, seamless transition to a post-oil economy is underway, is something that even the [Bush] administration itself does not believe.
Transport – Nov 11
Ed Black on who killed the electric car and the electric streetcar
Want better transit? Unionize!
Ship emissions seen causing 60,000 deaths a year
Urban design – Nov 11
Telegraph: Property values up in sustainable Totnes
Portland unveils carbon tax plan
The real ‘PPP’: Populism, probity and peak-oil in the River City’s tunnel deal
Peak oil: BP, Conoco and IEA all say it’s there
After the CEO of Total (the French oil major) last week, two more CEOs of an oil major came out this Thursday to give stark warnings that mean that peak oil is happening right now. In addition, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (the IEA) gave an extraordinarily pessimistic interview.
Climate – Nov 9
Are men to blame for global warming?
Third of Africa coastline at risk: UN
Feisty Daily Astorian wins award for climate series
Canadian climatologists puzzled by government’s ending of research fund
Climate change and deforestation
US Chambr of Commerce: Wake up to climate change legislation!
It’s a car’s world – Nov 9
Blaming the cyclist in Portland
Athens – asserting the right to walk in an auto-cracy
Auto workers, dealers break from industry over CAFE
