Energy industry – Feb 6
Exxon: Juggernaut or Dinosaur?
Time to toll the warning bells
Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy
Consumption & Demand
China – Feb 6
Drought threatens Chinese wheat crop
Darley: China Enters A New And ‘Interesting’ Phase
China to Construct 8 Strategic Oil Reserve Bases
Confusion in the oil patch
A standard story is making the rounds which goes like this: low prices and lack of investment will impair future oil production capacity. When the global economy rebounds, which could happen as early as 2010, oil prices will shoot up again as demand once again outstrips available supply.
Peak Oil Notes – Feb 5
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and production
– Growing troubles in Asia
Transport – Feb 4
Auto sales are worst in 26 years
The high cost of bad driving habits
The Challenge of Sustainable Transportation: Prospects for Switzerland and the U.S
Deep thought – Feb 3
The Myth of the Efficient Car
Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
Dangerous Oil
Consumerism & its critics – Feb 3
Our Love Affair With Malls Is on the Rocks
When you watch these ads, the ads check you out
Fundamentalist Consumerism and an Insane Society
Peak Oil Review – Feb 2
A weekly review, including:
– Production and Prices
– Obama’s stimulus
– Venezuela
– Briefs
Energy industry – Feb 2
Natural Gas Glut Could Hit US
Oil Sector Braces For Wider Fallout Of Low Crude Price
Oil players stockpile cheap crude on tankers
Endangered Electricity System: The Potential of Microgrids
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Sustainability and Resource Depletion: Survival Challenge for the 21st Century (video presentation)
Richard Heinberg identifies the essential axioms of sustainability and ties them to current economic trends such as the high and volatile prices of oil and other commodities. Species survival will require more than “Sustainability Lite,” a vague commitment to more environmentally benign practices, but instead an all-encompassing effort to live within the ultimate resource limits of the planet.
Peak Moment 125: An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future
How much energy does a town consume? Brian Corzilius sleuthed that out for Willits, California, and got a big surprise: in this community of 13,000 people, nearly 25% of after-tax revenue leaves town to pay for energy–gas, diesel, electricity and natural gas.
