Whither the weak in the post-peak oil world?
Today, we are rarely called upon to find the limits of our compassion. In a post-peak oil world that will in all likelihood no longer be the case.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil & supplies – July 11 (updated July 12)
– Lloyd’s adds its voice to dire ‘peak oil’ warnings
– Emirates banker: Will oil be coal?
– India cuts gas subsidy in favor of greener investments?
– Peak oil postponed again
ODAC Newsletter – July 9
Hopes rose this week that BP may be in a position to attempt to ‘kill’ the Macondo oil leak a couple of weeks ahead of its previously anticipated date. The first of two relief wells is now close to the target, and a top BP executive is reported to have told Wall Street Journal that, should weather conditions remain favourable, the well could be shut off by 27th July. With this optimistic, but by no means assured backdrop, Tony Hayward spent this week visiting Middle Eastern investors in an attempt to shore up BP against hostile takeover bids…
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – July 9
-Climate photo of the week: BP oil spill
-Canada: The Saudi Arabia of the North?
-The Gulf Spill – The Battle over the Drilling Moratorium
Another anxious plea to recognize limits
The current generation will not escape the consequences of rising energy and material resource costs. An appealing but superannuated ideology keeps the public in the dark. More light!
BP spill: what the locals are doing
The ruined Louisiana marshes remain off limits, but locals gather at a fund-raiser in New Orleans’ Vaughan’s Bar and work out what they can do, as the oil spreads ever eastwards
Peak oil notes – July 8
A mid-week update of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Deepwater Horizon
Strike one … you’re out?
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. The industrialized world was supposed to have time to prepare alternatives to oil. Or so goes the mainstream story.
Population growth must stop
Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day…Resource scarcities, especially oil, are likely to limit future economic growth; the demographic transition that has accompanied economic growth in the past may not be possible for many nations today.
The spill and you
The blogosphere overfloweth with indignation and facts and advice for third-persons regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. So let’s get personal instead. Consider for a moment the various ways which WE (that would be you and me) might choose to relate to it. Ready?
Oil spill media crackdown – 6 July
-Photographer Briefly Detained by Police Near BP’s Texas City Refinery
-The BP/Government police state
-Media, boaters could face criminal penalties by entering oil cleanup ‘safety zone’
Electric refueling: Doing the math
Oilbama and what passes for a green movement talk breezily of “clean energy,” as if the only thing blocking a rapid and thorough transition to an alt-energy economy is oil-industry corruption and political indecision. In the misleading verbiage of such false prophets, you never get any details. Why not? Because the facts are entirely contrary to the promises.
