United States – Feb 29
House OKs new taxes on big oil companies
Politics at the pump
Pelosi on Renewable Energy Act
Clinton’s efforts on ethanol overlap her husband’s interests
DOE not backing down on strategic reserve fill
Energy Policy
Peak oil – Feb 28
TOD: Olduvai revisited 2008
Abu Dhabi energy summit: ‘urgent race to find solutions to the coming energy crisis.’
Oil could reach $300, says Simmons in Mideast
Shell report mentions PO:
A National Dialogue on Energy Security
Everybody’s jumping on the solar bandwagon
Solar energy growth fantasies that allow us to power our plug-ins and keep the lights on without disruption are not helpful in making the stepwise changes we will need to get us to 2050 all in one piece.
National – Feb 26
Oil prices take a toll on Gulf’s middle class
South America natural gas crisis
A credible European energy strategy
Oil companies – Feb 25
As oil prices soar, prospectors return to Pennsylvania
Shell exec: US In an energy security ‘mess’
Western oil companies now decapitalizing
Coal & uranium – Feb 25
US governors: include coal in energy debate
Alarm over new oil-from-coal plans in China
Experts discuss clean coal technology
Uranium and the nuclear renaissance
National policy – Feb 25
Australia and the Export Land Model
Ireland’s oil security review
Iceland’s heated debate
Can Turkish economy survive high energy prices?
U.S. policy – Feb 25
Matt Simmons: U.S. needs to show world the way on energy
10 things the nation must do
Drop ideas of oil independence
United States – Feb 25
Bali confirmed the shift: U.S. is on board now
GM exec calls global warming a “crock”
The dollar system and US economic reality post-Iraq war
ODAC newsletter (Feb 22-28)
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Climate policy – Feb 22
Climate Code Red – the new denial and the failure Of democracy
Hunters, anglers join global-warming outcry
Poor need insurance against climate change
Nations look up – Feb 22
Brunei energy minister: Days of cheap and easy oil are over
China: Adapt to dearer oil
Resources minister: Australia’s got a huge challenge
