Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dave Cohen Americans are easily misled about domestic “supply-side” solutions to rising oil prices and dwindling global exports. Their confusion is understandable. Oil company executives like Shell’s John Hofmeister have called for opening up now restricted areas in Alaska or on the outer continental shelves, implying that salvation is only a few oil wells away.
Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of the leading Web sites for commentary and reporting on the crucial environmental issues of the day.
Jeffrey Brown: Is a net oil export hurricane hitting the US Gulf Coast?
Energy analyst Douglas-Westwood on PO
Peak oil quotes at Reuters conference
ASPO newsletter for June
Oil price drivers — a look at the fundamentals
David Strahan on Newsnight
Gail Tverberg reviews Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse
Futurist Jeremy Rifkin’s bleak view of the future
8 things we are running out of and why
Carolyn Baker: Location, location, re-location
Getting through a crash will take more than tomatoes and Mason jars.
Food production must rise by 50%, says UN chief
Need long-term solutions without ills of “cheap food era”
Food prices rocketing all over Europe
Civil Society Forum calls for rethinking of the food system
Yuba homebuyers face mounting commuting costs – suburban equivalents of ghost towns?
Second Great Depression in Detroit – time for a revival? (houses for $5000)
Rural Canada:
Guzzling up their way of life
As fuel becomes precipitously expensive, two car families are likely to become one car families. Most people would probably consider this a bad thing but let’s for a moment look at how it might change our lives for the better.
Sharp power-price rise hits Texas
Texas: Electricity price flies off the grid
Shockingly high electricity prices may await Americans this summer (new)
Texas wind farms choked off from grid due to insufficient power lines
Indonesia hospitals unprepared for blackouts
Vermont: Grid in danger
Juneau’s lesson from energy crisis: Communities should unite
It’s the efficiency, stupid: New York Times gets it right this time”
Data centers waste up to 90% of electricity
Elder care – green, high-tech and ‘old-fashioned extended family ties’
Instruments of Amplification: homemade radio parts
What could wreck the world’s currencies is a desire to offset the effects of the ever-tightening noose of resource scarcity caused by the approach of peak oil, the march of climate change, and the rapid industrialization of the Far East. The desire to offset these effects is already expressing itself through easy money policies and the financing of government expenditures through borrowing rather than taxation.
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Reaction
– Declining Exports
– Energy Briefs
