All that’s wrong with ‘common wisdom’ in one article
Is Gordon Brown to be blamed for the UK’s oil problems?
Energy Policy
Energy policies – June 1
Forgotten themes – how Australia is coping
Why I was wrong about rationing
UK power giant says energy industry on the brink of radical change
Pushing South (Canadian pipelines)
Oil well in South Downs is ‘act of vandalism’
United States – June 1
T. Boone Pickens on future of energy (video)
Do we need an energy “Manhattan Project”?
Drill now – Georgia’s Westmoreland
Peak Oil will be politicians’ best friend
I left International Transport Forum at Leipzig with the feeling that the future’s biggest questions, energy and climate, lacked leadership. There is nobody who will stand up and say “I have a dream” but rather it is nightmares that are discussed. Peak Oil will, in future, become the politician’s best friend since Peak Oil will reduce CO2 emissions from oil and become a part of the solution that the politicians cannot agree on… Those that actively accept and respond to the Peak Oil idea will be the winners of the future. (Report from a meeting of European transport ministers)
Peak oil – May 30
Oil Exporters unable to keep up with demand
Global demand squeezing natural gas supply
The Economist: “Peak oil” or a speculative bubble? Neither, really
Beware the hunt for scapegoats
Dr. David Goodstein calls for “Manhattan Project”-level research on green energy
Reuters: Peak oil: Fact or fallacy
Peak oil protest in Adelaide
Why the flare-up in oil prices? – May 29
The Oil Drum
Ralph Nader
Wharton School professors
Andrew Leonard at Salon (new)
Cutting fuel subsidies – May 29
Cutting fuel subsidies will decrease oil demand
Asian countries begin to burst the oil bubble
Crude prices may have peaked but developing countries hold the key
Energy policies – May 29
Thomas L. Friedman: Truth or consequences (about energy policy)
Australia: Fuel price debate ignores real issue
China says `unwise’ to import more oil at high prices
China: Coal, oil, gas, power, agricultural goods supply must be ensured
United Kingdom – May 29
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
Peak oil – May 28
Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We’re not yet at Hubbert’s peak – call it instead ‘de facto peak oil’
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)
United States – May 28
Rockefellers seek change at Exxon
Rare peek inside our Fort Knox of black gold
Senators question top oil execs (video)
Utah climate report adds more gloom
Midwest’s message: Hands off our lakes
Coal in the United States
Coal currently looks like a solution to many of America’s fast-growing energy problems. However, this is a solution that, if applied on a broad scale, seems certain only to exacerbate the nation’s energy dilemma in the long run, as well as contributing to an impending global climate catastrophe. (Excerpts)
