Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Steve Andrews Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Until recently, there has been a constant refrain to the effect that Western economies seem undeterred by higher oil prices. Demand destruction does not seem to be taking place within OECD, even at today’s high numbers.
If you still have a few teensy, eensy, weensy doubts about whether the magic of nationalized debt will fix everything for you, I thought it might be instructive for all of us to sit back and listen just a little to people who have already been through a really bad economic crisis
UK gardeners turn to vegetables
Self-sufficient living in East Anglia: hard work and red tape
India’s debt-ridden farmers committing suicide
Truckers slowing down to save fuel
Tyre prices to be indexed against oil: Michelin
Ancient use of rafts to transport goods demonstrated
Reducing your carbon footprint from travel
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
Double-digit oil price is history: R S Sharma, head of India’s ONGC
Lukoil won’t send oil to German refiners in April
Cheney and Saudis: No short-term fix for oil prices
Things are beyond OPEC’s control
Oil falls on economy worries
Oil may fall as dollar rises, demand wanes
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
The rising price of coal
Air Force prod aids coal-to-fuel plans
Britain and France to take nuclear power to the world
James Hansen on climate change, science censorship and peak oil
Joseph Kennedy: We need a new bargain with Big Oil
Slump moves from Wall St. to Main St.
Climate-friendly Republican – ex-Congressman Boehlert
US `wide open’ to crippling power blackout
Scientists warn of soot effect on climate – more damage than previously thought
World’s worst environmental black spots
Poor are sidelined on climate change solutions
Indonesia warned of looming water crisis
China, not Tibet, comes first for Asian states
China unveils renewable energy development plan
Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns UK minister
