United States – June 17
McCain calls for more offshore oil drilling
More drilling won’t help
U.S. cities for the 21st century
Brookings: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Energy Policy
Prices & supplies – June 16
A Bull Market Sees the Worst in Speculators
Action against oil speculators could backfire
If a Hurricane Strikes
Out Of Control(s)- China’s energy subsidies
Eliminating Subsidies Won’t Cut It (Demand for Oil That Is)
Can We Have Rationing Now Please? (David Fleming interview)
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008
The oil production story: pre- and post-peak nations
The world oil production data below tell a story …
Triple crisis (energy, food, finance) – June 16
After the credit boom comes the long and painful squeeze
£100 to fill up the tank? Just get used to the idea
Surging Oil and Food Prices Threaten the World Economy, Finance Ministers Warn
From Indonesia to the US, governments stand powerless in face of markets
Why is the cost of living going up?
The End of Cheap Oil as an Opportunity
Five nations agree to think about ending oil subsidies
The day after markets registered the highest single-day rise in crude oil prices ever, the United States and Asia’s four largest economies (Japan, China, India and South Korea), meeting in Aomori, Japan in advance of the G8 Energy Ministers summit, have formed a sort of Petro-holics non-Anonymous club, calling for an end to oil subsidies in their countries.
Consumer subsidies (subsidized fuel prices), that is, not producer subsidies.
OK, what they actually agreed upon was “the need” to remove fuel-price subsidies. Eventually.
U.S. renewable energy tax credits – extension or expiration?
The outcome of a political stalemate in Congress will determine if renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credits will be extended or will expire at the end of this year. The vote on this bill will be as soon as tomorrow and as we are hearing, it actually is in danger of not passing.
Renewables – June 5
UK report: Greener power to the people
Green energy firm bids to power London Olympics
Germany slashes solar subsidies
Economics – June 5
Costly oil could mean recession – Soros
India: Markets end deep in red on fuel price hike
Asian economic miracle at risk again
A new kind of ‘energy crisis’ (danger is inflation)
Energy industry – June 5
Reuters Industry Summit: global energy
US coal lobbyists unveil nightmarish vision of life after cap-and-trade
Dakota oil fields of Saudi-sized reserves make farmers drillers
TOD:
Predictions for Canada’s natural gas production
Gail Tverberg on US natural gas: Lessons from BP’s Tight Gas Facility in Wamsutter WY
Peak oil notes
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and consumption
– Subsidies
Peak oil – June 4
The New World Energy Order (interview with IEA economist Fatih Birol)
Dallas vs. Indonesia
The hollow victory of Rep. Bartlett
Prices – June 4
Jeff Vail: Falling dollar behind oil price rises?
Oil price crash not imminent despite bubble: Soros
Reports of oil boom’s death look premature
Oil price and hurricane season
Lehman Brothers: Oil price bubble will burst with a bang like dot-com did
How speculators are manipulating & profiting from the global food crisis
