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The top 14 oil exporting states experienced high economic growth in 2005 and the first half of 2006, leading to high domestic consumption of oil. The rates of increase in oil consumption are in the high single digits or low double digits in all top exporting countries except Norway.
Pro sports are a luxury we can no longer afford in a world facing dangerous climate change and where $75 a barrel oil is already straining the budgets of most Third World countries and threatening their development future.
While individual responsibility to slash fossil fuel use is workable, a more efficient and socially enforcing way is to band together to cut energy waste and share resources and skills.
For 99 percent of recorded history, humanity managed to stay cool by finding some shade, getting some air moving, and slowing down when it gets too hot. Starting this summer, let’s show the world that a mere few decades of air conditioning have not turned Americans into wimps. Turn the thermostat to OFF, throw the windows open, and head for the park instead of the mall.
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday that oil producers have “lost control of the market,” which is currently in hands of oil traders.
Figuring out how to meet the world’s demand for energy involves choosing between two complex formulas: Cost optimization based on the cheapest forms of energy available vs. the risk of pumping the resulting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. (Summary of a talk by Dr. Nathan Lewis of Caltech)
With concerns that energy use will rapidly increase over the next several years while fossil fuels diminish as well as numerous other energy uncertainties including the results of climate change, Sandia National Laboratories is proposing applying the principles of surety to energy.
In North America we spend 90 percent of our time inside buildings where the temperature, moisture, and even the oxygen content of the air we breath are all kept at acceptable levels by – you guessed it – cheap energy.
Properly designed carbon tax could help Canada battle global warming / The big idea: an energy tax / Nordic countries: Green taxes are the way to change our world / Fuel tax magic
All participants in these debates would benefit from taking a step back and revaluating their assumptions concerning the primary drivers of energy supply, demand, and pricing.
America’s air-conditioned nightmare /
50 years driving in the wrong direction: the U.S. Interstate Highway System / World weighs in on global warming / Al Gore 3.0 / U.S. emits half of car-caused greenhouse gas / Global warming may not lead to greater crop yields
Last week the US Government released the International Energy Outlook 2006 (IEO).
Unfortunately, however, from a peak-oil-is-imminent perspective, one is forced to say that many of this report’s projections are so far from reality that the EIA must be talking about some other world.
