Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“The Government’s assessment is that the world’s oil resources are sufficient to prevent global total oil production peaking in the foreseeable future. This is consistent with the assessment made by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its recent 2007 World Energy Outlook (WEO), which concludes that proven reserves are already larger than the cumulative production needed to meet rising demand until at least 2030.”
Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges climatologist Hansen
Hung over from the ethanol party
Europe lowers goals for biofuel use
e360: The corn ethanol juggernaut
Kickapoo Nation sets sights on energy independence
Report says oil agency ran amok
MMS chicks drilling for dollars and drugs
Sex ‘n drugs ‘n minerals management
The price spike of early 2008 was merely a dress rehearsal. The fall in oil demand gives the world a moment to catch its breath before the inevitable price-ratcheting process starts up again. Meanwhile, at $100 or so, the price of oil is still 50 per cent higher than last year and 10 times the level of a decade ago.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
The Outer Continental Shelf is not a panacea for today’s higher oil prices. The best prospects in US waters – including most of the Gulf of Mexico and a thousand miles of Alaskan shoreline – are already open for leasing. There’s probably some oil in the moratoria areas, but it is a decade or more from market.
We need a Secretary of Transition for energy because we haven’t done the decades of planning and change we had to do before the end of cheap energy.
New York Times columnist calls for a Green Revolution
The Fate of BC’s Carbon Tax
Tea Leaves (Presidential elections and the price of oil)
E&E Daily’s Berman, Geman preview congressional action on energy (video and transcript)
Oil crisis hiding in plain sight; pump prices and crude still way ahead of year ago levels
Charlie Maxwell to Barron’s: $300 oil is inevitable
An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply
Soros: The perilous price of oil
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
An urban legend to comfort America: crash programs will solve Peak Oil
Cato: Random oil (Random Walk)
Is oil going back under $100 a barrel? Not if Opec can help it
