Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For the moment, Beijing’s strategic priority has been to carefully develop a remarkably diverse set of energy-suppliers. If China has so far proven masterly in the way it has played its cards in its Pipelineistan “war”, the U.S. hand — bypass Russia, elbow out China, isolate Iran — may soon be called for what it is: a bluff.
– Experts at ASPO Conference Fear Big New U.S. Job Losses, Economic Downturn
– White House to Lift Ban on Deep-Water Drilling
– ASPO-USA: New Warnings About the Challenges of Oil Depletion
– Kurt Cobb’s peak oil novel
This chapter is a scandal to the peak oil movement (if there is such a thing as a “peak oil movement”). I suspect it will go a long way toward discrediting peak oil as an oil company conspiracy to both raise the price of oil and destroy the planet in the process. They attempt to create doubt about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in order to advance their own thesis about how to best mitigate declining oil production.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil production
-Climate talks
-The global food situation
-Iraq
TOD co-founder Summers blogs on talks on EROEI, military, economics and transportation.
– ASPO’s Baldauf discusses policy options on E&E TV
– John blogs the breakout sessions
– Sharon Astyk on Beginnings
– Attack of the Chicken People
– Huffington Post: Peak Oil and Convention Deserve Our Attention
– World oil shortages would center on liquid fuels, forum told
Reports on talks by Jim Baldauf, Chris Skrebowski, Jeremy Gilbert, Dr. James Schlesinger, Roger Bezdek, Arthur Berman and Charles Maxwell.
– The End of Oil As We Know It
– Jeff Rubin: Canada’s two new solitudes
– Crafting A Peak Oil “Narrative”
– Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum
Blog report covering talks by Jeff Brown on the Export Land Model (ELM), Jonathan Callaghan on natural gas and coal, Jeff Vail on rescuing suburbia and several more by the TOD team.
Terminal depletion of the world’s mineral energy reserves looms imminent – or certainly within the first quarter of this century. It may well signify the end of industrial civilization as we know it, and synchronous failures could permit a convergence of energy, food, and economic crises as early as 2018. But study after study proves that we know what we can do to forge a more sustainable world. It is high time for a great transition – a ‘post-carbon revolution’.
– Is Venezuela the Next Flashpoint for Oil?
– Iraq Is Back In The Game
– Jim Baldauf of ASPO-USA in “The Hill”: the end of oil as we know it
– Jeff Rubin: Depletion Is Economic, Not Just Geological, Concept
– Shale oil boom underlines importance of innovations on another fuel – oil shale
– LNG Trumped
TOD’s contribution to Honda’s “Racing Against Time” thought leadership series.
