Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
-Science and The Gulf Spill – Scientists Gauge The Impact of Oil
-Saudi Arabia’s real energy problem(s)
-What happens when coal is gone?
-Saudi’s Announcement
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Deepwater Horizon
-China
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
Busting the myth of progress is a precursor to changing industrial civilisations’ current unsustainable path.
Back in 2000, the EIA developed their first power-point presentation covering the topic of peak oil. A version of it was presented by EIA Administrator Jay Hakes to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists…What was the EIA’s rationale at the time? How has their view held up a decade later?
What should be taken from this record of the complexity gurus? Certainly, they have technical knowledge which few can match. And, they keep track of developments in their respective areas much more thoroughly than nonspecialists. So, given that, why are their judgments frequently so mistaken?
– NYT: As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies
– Aleklett: Oil in the veins of sub-Saharan Africa
– SciAm: What happens when coal is gone?
– WaPo: Pigs in Takoma Park highlight rise in suburban livestock
– Titanic Syndrome
If we choose to marginalize and destroy our oil and gas infrastructure – we will see what “Hubbert’s Cliff” looks like, due to accelerating depletion. I suspect that the accompanying scenario would make Mr. Kunstler’s novel look like a walk in the park.
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Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the season, hampered the Macondo oil well disaster clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and resulted in the precautionary closure of 25% of crude oil production in the area. Reports indicate however that it didn’t cause any delay to the drilling of relief wells on which so much hope rests…
A new narrative reverberating in right-wing political circles blames the Deepwater Horizon disaster on a favorite scapegoat: the federal government.
This past week at the Transition Network Conference 2010 in the UK, the speaker Stoneleigh rocked everyone’s paradigm with her talk “Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil”.
-Exclusive: Was disregard for industry standards on BP rig worse than we thought?
-Deep Water Oil The Final Frontier
-Senate Panel Ends Liability Limits for Offshore Spills
