What Happens Once The Oil Runs Out?
The controversy over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a side issue. The problem we need to face is the impending world oil shortage. (NY Times Op-Ed!)
Energy Policy
Energy body wants brakes on fuel consumption
The International Energy Agency is to propose drastic cutbacks in car use to halt continuing oil-supply problems. Those cutbacks include anything from car-pooling to outright police-enforced driving bans for citizens.
Workshop: Managing oil demand in transport.
Links to background report and presentations from March 7 & 8 IEA workshop on oil demand management, in case of ‘supply interruption’. Note title of 1st session: ‘Saving Oil in a Hurry: Rapid measures for demand restraint’.
Paying the Price For Bush’s Retro Energy Policy
When it comes to dealing with the many energy-related crises we’re facing, can the Bushies really go on pretending that their policies are any more forward-looking than a rerun of That ’70s Show
Will The End of Oil Mean The End of America?
“America’s has its hand in the coconut.”
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management
The first two sections of the ‘Hirsch Report’ to the US Dept. of Energy on Peak Oil formatted for the web.
Open Letter to US Representative Hooley (OR 5th) About Energy Depletion
An unexpected and courageous speech on efficiency, conservation, and population control by an ultra-conservative Member of Congress needs to be brought to the attention of all. Readers, please feel free to borrow and customize to send to your US Representative.
Deloitte urges regulators to update reserves reporting
Deloitte & Touche LLP has urged regulators worldwide to update their oil and gas reserves reporting requirements and to expand the scope of mandatory disclosures in annual reports and financial statements.
Galvanize Research and Development for Alternatives to Oil
We must apply the same can-do attitude and the same brainpower and technical resources to the alternatives-to-oil issue as we did to landing a man on the moon.
Putin controls end oil gusher
A five-year oil boom is ending in Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, as President Vladimir Putin increases government control over the industry, curtailing investment in new wells, rigs and pipelines.
Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress
Conservative Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, Chairman of the Projection Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, gave an hour long presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress on Monday. This is the full transcript.
Full steam ahead for BC offshore oil drilling
No voices of caution or reason were invited to a $500-a-head meeting of government and energy industry leaders licking their chops and gripping their forks as they gaze out over the beautiful British Columbia coastline
