Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The context of ‘low product”: how designers can help articulate a new social language
The Oil Drum BookCollage – #1 of 3 (Energy, Ecology, Sustainability, Etc.)
‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Borderline bankruptcy: A Bioregional alternative?
Peak oil sf novel by R.C. Wilson
Post peak oil rock: Antioquia
Review: Stuffed!
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The rebound
-Brazil
-Briefs
IEA output forecasts are ‘outside reality’: Aleklett
Exxon Mobil CEO tells shareholders that fossil fuels have long future
Western world is faced with the crude reality of rising oil prices
Blogger Conference Call with Robert Ryan, VP of Global Exploration, Chevron
Exxon and its fossil fuel partners in the denial lobby seem to like models well enough when they use them for their own purposes; but through their hired mouthpieces they decry the use of models for climate change forecasting.
Today I’ll try to explain President Obama’s policy for decreasing oil consumption in the United States. Right now the administration has so many balls in the air that it is impossible to make a definite statement about what the effects of their initiatives will be, but a coherent policy is emerging if you gather all the pieces together.
Why Obama Should Take Notes from Cuba on a Green Energy Revolution
Solar Carbon Payback
Resourceful Guy Builds Solar House, Solar Power, Solar Car
A Call to President Barack Obama and to the Congress of the United States of America to Commission a Comprehensive Study of Oil Production Decline (termed “Peak Oil”): Facts, Impacts and Mitigation and Preparedness Options to be undertaken by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
RAND Corporation has brought its considerable expertise to bear on the national security implications of US oil import dependence…While this study examines this issue solely from an American perspective, many of its observations are applicable to other import-dependent nations. Although there is much of value in this report, I wish to challenge its central recommendation on how government should deal with price spikes and physical shortages.
Unless we have an economic depression far worse than most currently believe is likely, the chances are good that within the next five years a combination of emissions restrictions and falling oil supplies is going to make gasoline too expensive for routine use in private automobiles.
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Warnings
– Detroit
