The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2007
It seems like a good time to review the general peak oil situation prior to what many believe may be difficult times later this year.
Tom Whipple
Food & agriculture – July 18
Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
India: Eight more farmers commit suicide
Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises
Why milk costs more than gas
Solutions & sustainability – July 18
Conservative MP: Small is inevitable after PO
Robert Putnam and social capital
Designed deterioration
Argentina: Where jobless run factories
Fatih Birol interview in Le Monde full translation
Full translation of June 26 interview with Fatih Birol, chief economist with the International Energy Agency, in which Birol predicts the oil market will face ‘a wall’ between now and 2015.
National Petroleum Council report comes up a dry hole
The NPC Study [on oil supplies] is woefully inadequate, leaving the Secretary of Energy and the American public with inadequate warning of the huge economic and social risks that many experts believe are just around the corner.
Peak oil – July 17
NPC report suggests opening areas to drilling, increasing fuel efficiency standards
NPC report: Demand to outpace crude supplies
British MP interviews David Strahan (The Last Oil Shock author)
Reason: The end of cheap oil?
Canada energy news round-up
Study of world oil resources with a comparison to IPCC emissions scenarios (thesis)
Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and the environment
Excerpts from three essays examining the teachings of Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism for relevance to ‘the environment and the human future’.
Peak oil and the coming report from the National Petroleum Council – July 16
Wall Street Journal on NPC’s report
Oil industry admits it cannot save us
ASPO-USA special on NPC report
Robert Rapier: Peak Lite revisited
Kunstler: Psychotic break
Energy price could bust the boom
Letter to Airmen – energy update
As a part of our nation’s defense, we should consider what we need to be available in the event of an interruption in energy supplies, and to push technologies that reduce our energy demand.
Renewables – July 16
Big Oil’s impact on research is debated
World’s largest solar energy farm
Solar power wins enthusiasts but not money
Turbine shortage to leave some Scottish communities in the dark
Saudi Arabia invests in renewables
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
On the precipice: Energy security and economic stability on the edge
I am a Major in the United States Army. …I set out to discover what some of the best minds in the world had to say about what the world might look like 20-plus years from now. Specifically, I intended to examine population growth, food production, water availability, and energy supplies. What I discovered shocked me. (Online report)
