Peak Oil Notes
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and stockpiles
– The meeting at Jiddah
– Offshore drilling
– Chinese growth
– Floods and ethanol
Tom Whipple
Renewables – June 19
Solar future brightens as oil soars
Silicon shortage eases
Solar prices set to slump
United States – June 19
McCain finds no ‘virtue’ in U.S. oil policies
Bush calls for end to ban on offshore oil drilling
Obama on oil drilling: ‘Not a long-term solution’
John McCain’s oil scam
How to enter the global green economy
Internet purchases shouldn’t be subsidized
Food & agriculture – June 19
Our diet of destruction
The peaceful revolution in farmers’ markets
Food revolution that starts with rice
Ethiopia pleads for £167m aid after crops fail
Farming with far fewer fossil fuels – learn at Tillers International
Speculators – June 19
Wall Street lobbies to protect speculative oil trades
Commentary on speculation from McCain advisor
Myth-makers caught short in oil speculation
Climate – June 18
Disaster-prone deltas next climate risk
Conflicts fuelled by climate change causing new refugee crisis, warns UN
Climate chaos is inevitable; we can only avert oblivion
Warming could release trillions of pounds of carbon annually from E. Siberia’s frozen soils
Biofuels – June 18
Human cost of Brazil’s biofuels boom
Vinod Khosla: We can do biofuel well or poorly
The bad oil on ethanol
Farm-belt voters down on corn ethanol mandate
Pest threatens Brazil’s Sao Paulo cane fields
Brazil’s diverse energy resources
Housing & urban design – June 18
The nexus of peak oil, climate change and infrastructure
Kunstler: Pavement
For mass transit, mass investment
In the future we will live in gas stations
Real-estate projects boom near light rail
$4 gallon of gas will change U.S. way of life
Transport – June 18
Cardboard bike unveiled
Air Canada cutting 2,000 jobs, trimming capacity
Cargo ships told to go green by slowing down
The future of air travel
Gaza ‘genius’ helps besieged city
Hard times – June 18
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Renters wary of new smart-meters
Real human casualties of the mortgage massacre
A sign of the times in Bankruptsville, USA (Vallejo, Calif)
Oil prices fuel fury from the pulpit
Geopolitics – June 18
AFRI (OIL) COM
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial
Brzezinski: Russia after BTC pipeline
Challenging the militarization of US energy policy
The politics of global food and energy crisis
Are they really oil wars?
Peak oil – June 18
Simmons: Raised Saudi output is `drop in bucket’
Oil woes hitting health care system
Peak oil – worry now
Kris Can speaks with Kunstler
