Electricity – Oct 16
Less power to the people
Power-grid report suggests dark days ahead
Lightbulb giveaway is switched off
Consumption & Demand
Coal – Oct 13
Even coal (clean or not) will not save the US way of life
Kremlin seeks more coal use in Russia amid gas shortage
Massive coal mine blaze still burning
Output drop hurts UK Coal
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Politics and Economics – Oct 9
Britons personal debt runs out of control
The Chinese bank puzzle
How America grows: A tale of two cities
Infrastructure vulnerable to hacker attacks
Jamaican government admits received $31 million from oil firm
Peak Oil – Oct 2
Peak oil is, like, so over. Not!
Kuwaiti wonders on oil production
Al Gore on peak oil
Simmons on Financial Sense Online
Geopolitics – Oct 2
Oil and Politics in Iran, Iraq and Russia
Mexican president must ride oil’s fortunes
Odell warns of Russian purchase into Shell, BP
Aviation – Oct 2
New aircraft fuel could be pie in the sky
Boeing Says Biofuels Show Some Promise
Why We Need An X Prize for Eco-Friendly Air Travel
Energy: preparations and possibilities
In place of business-as-usual or survivalist fantasies, lifestyle changes and conservation technologies can be put to work to manage the transition into deindustrial society.
Politics and economics – Sept 21
For Bush, cheaper gas = popularity
Chavez – an
emerging force
Being angry at Russia is pointless
Russia cancels Shell’s Sakhalin license
Drive to create jobs in Indonesia
Brazil poor feel benefits of Lula’s policies
Is high-flying economy heading for turbulence?
Ethanol – Sept 16
South Africas ethanol landscape
Extracting grain of truth on ethanol
Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth
India backs down on blending
Honda claims cellulose breakthrough
Politics and Economics – Sept 15
IMF: risk of global crash is increasing
Java-Bali electricity supply reduced
America’s unreal estate problem
Ford offers early retirement to US workforce
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
Commentary: Underestimating Demand, Overestimating Supply
The world of oil has turned out very different from what the experts at EIA, IEA, CERA, BP, EXXON and others all thought.
