Beijing under pressure to tackle oil shortages
Rising anger in China over spreading fuel shortages is increasing pressure on Beijing and the local oil majors to devise a new pricing policy to head off future crises over oil supplies to motorists.
Energy Policy
Car-less days may be revived in New Zealand
If an assured supply of oil is cut off to the West, New Zealand could again face the prospect of car-less days. The option is raised in a consultant’s report for the Economic Development Ministry that looks at an oil crunch and how the country could cope.
Comment: New Zealand’s initial response to IEA emergency consumption reduction requirements. NZ regular gasoline is currently NZD$1.45/litre, equal to USD$3.87 per gallon.
$3 Gallon Gasoline? Time to Consider the Alternative: The Garage Filling Station (GFS)
With gasoline nearly $3 gallon, there needs to be a mainstream discussion of the alternatives.
The Rimini Protocol: an oil depletion protocol
Dr Colin Campbell’s ASPO Ireland is working on encouraging action on peak oil through the Rimini Protocol. The oil depletion protocol was first proposed at the 2003 Pio Manzu Conference and will be the central theme of the next Pio Manzu Conference, Rimini, Italy on October 28-30 2005.
Carless days not the solution to Peak Oil problem
“The Greens believe we need to have the mechanisms in place to deal with both a short-term emergency, such as this report envisions, and Peak Oil, where we are facing steadily rising prices over the long term and eventual shortages no matter what the price,” [Green Co-Leader] Ms Fitzsimons says.
Philipines energy crisis looms due to escalating oil hike
The Government has made the call to people to appreciate the looming crisis arising out of the unabated price of oil in the world market. According to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye the country should face this challenge squarely and close ranks.
A picture worth more than 1000 words
Supply of Oil vs the Demand for Oil.
Congress’s Rapid Energy Depletion Bill
While the pundits analyze the fossil fuel subsidies and nuclear industry giveaways in the energy bill only just signed by President Bush, they miss the overall. From the standpoint of ecology, the primary strategy behind the bill is a simple one: Increase the rate of drawdown in order to shore up a world economic and social system that is suffering gravely from the effects of a global environmental meltdown.
Other Energy Headlines – 12 August, 2005
Chinese gasoline stations jammed as fuel crisis deepens / Ghana has 350 Million dollar energy funding gap / Indian Official: Assam oil production ‘critical’ / Explosion at BP plant near Alvin comes on heels of Texas City closing / The only way is up for oil prices, but the world will not run out in the near future / Are record oil prices leading to exploitation of oil shales? / Electrical Inefficiency A Dark Spot for China / Shell Canada Oil Sands Expansion Costs Jump 83% / U.S.: Pricier Oil Won’t Send The Economy Into A Skid / More fuel for airlines’ woes
Bush vows to eliminate US dependence on oil by 4920
WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now. [satirical]
US Energy & Roads Bills Headlines – 12 August, 2005
No gain, much pain – When energy bill comes due, we’re going to pay / Cleanpeace: Energy bill speeds nuclear proliferation, stifles competition and threatens national security / Holes in the Energy Law / In new energy crisis, Bush rewards cronies / Energy bill roils port policy / Energy Vacation [animated cartoon] / Passage of energy bill highlights lack of united Democratic opposition / The Energy Bill’s Gift to Terrorists / Highway bill Legislation loaded with money for special projects / Road Bill Reflects the Power of Pork
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 3 August, 2005
The Oil Depletion Protocol / Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century (Part 2 of 3) / EIA’s Cook Sees Stronger Oil Demand Than Data Show / Saudi Arabia and Oil – Simmons on CBC Radio / Simmons in Arab press / New energy probe may harm sea life / Competitors To Nuclear: Eat My Dust / “Petroleum bourse to become reality” / Death of a king / Experts: U.S., China Have Much at Stake / US Still Too Reliant on Middle East Oil / If You Could Have Written the Energy Bill…
