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Robert Rapier on Obama’s Energy Policy: Listening When We Disagree
Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’
The National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future (online book)
Wiley Rein’s Weinberg says Obama win marks resurgence of aggressive regulation (11/11/2008) (video and transcript)
After the credit crunch, the oil crunch: watchdog warns over falling supplies (IEA report)
World needs four new Saudi Arabias, warns IEA
Jérôme a Paris: Betting on Yergin
Daniel Yergin: What lower oil prices mean for the world
Klare: America’s energy crunch comes home
API chief Gerard talks Obama victory, climate
New cabinet position – “Energy and the Environment” ?
Obama set to push ‘big bang’ reform package
Ron Cooke: Obama faces hard political decisions (oil depletion)
We believe that no other challenge we currently face will be adequately addressed unless we are successful in tackling our energy challenges. Based on recognition of the fundamental change that has taken place in global energy markets, critical elements of a new approach to energy policy are set out below.
Jeremy Leggett discusses the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security
Total sees nuclear energy for growth after peak oil
On theoretical, scientific or ideological grounds
Weekly review including:
– Prices and consumption
– Production cuts
– Investment continues to fall
– The forthcoming IEA report
– Detroit
– Briefs
Gore: The Climate for Change
Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future
KunstlerCast bonanza (audio)
The problems we now face will not be solved at the central government level. They might be mitigated or exacerbated, but not truly solved. In essence, the world as currently constructed has become ungovernable. So, along with new ways of living, we must find new ways of governing, and I believe those new ways will emphasize the local and the regional over the national or the international.
Internet revolution that elected Obama could save Earth: Gore
Obama likely to tackle energy early on
Al Gore group urges Obama to create U.S. power grid
“The average American has no clue what is about to hit them. Neither does the average investor. The magnitude of the life changes we’re about to see is simply incredible.” This is how Catherine Elder, an energy expert at noted consultancy R.W. Beck, describes what will be the impact of a federally-imposed system to regulate the U.S.’s carbon dioxide emissions.
With significant Democratic gains in Congress, Obama will have an opportunity to sign more significant energy-related legislation than we’ve seen since Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Will it be enough to prevent an energy-driven depression following the present economic turmoil?
Mr. Obama will preside over the potential restructuring of all our systems, some of them in ways he and his supporters have not imagined.
