Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Sharon Astyk We are currently in a deep and horrible disaster, being visited on the world’s poorest and the tentacles are gradually crawling up the anchor to take down the rest of the ship. But I also think that there is a good deal of reason for hope – we have vast capacities, vast resources and vast imagination.
WSJ: Former Saudi officials at odds over ‘peak’ theory
Rep. Bartlett speech on peak oil
Mark Lynas : After the oil crunch?
And so it goes: the story of Kashagan (Caspian oil field)
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.
Oil surges above $140 to record as Libya warns of output cut
$7-a-gallon gas, 10-million fewer cars: Rubin (CIBC)
700 militants arrested this year, Saudis say – suspicion of planning oil attacks
Millions in U.S. face energy shutoff
Lights and gas move out of range of ordinary people
Feel bad for the middle class
Parties split on how to expand offshore drilling
Democrat and environmentalist turns traitor on drilling
Election spin 2008
Noel Edmonds on how UK government is ignoring the energy crisis
Colorado mines prof sees potential in energy crisis
Beyond CRM 2.0: Disruptive force of oil and a changing energy infrastructure
Profile of bio-regionalist Stephanie Mills
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more (software)
Introducing a new currency – the “Carbon”
Burbank Water & Power: Smart grids, WiFi, renewables
The problem with Big Green
Scenius, or communal genius
Methane burps & tele everything
Thomas Friedman and his book, Hot, Flat And Crowded
Kunstler on wishful thinking
Mike Davis: Welcome to the next epoch – humanity’s meltdown (“Anthropocene”)
Sixty days, next year (diary of the future)
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
