United States – May 27
State of Paralysis
Natural Gas Politics
US steelworkers form unlikely alliance as renewables reinvigorate rustbelt
State of Paralysis
Natural Gas Politics
US steelworkers form unlikely alliance as renewables reinvigorate rustbelt
Here’s Good News About Your Net Worth
Energy: The Achilles Heel of the Resource Pyramid
The Renewables Hump 2: Digging Out of a Hole
The impact of the financial and economic crisis on global energy investment
IEA’s dire warning on green stimulus and renewables
Global electricity use forecast to fall
Chinese Oil: Google Images Show Growing Crude Storage in China
Are we moving towards a new oil crisis?
Bust and boom
A round of peak oil news, including:
-Production and Prices
-Washington
I am no longer in the directional drilling business due to the industry downturn. Since many of us will not be returning to the oil fields, those who have this experience will be fewer in number, and the demands on their time will be great.
Colin J. Campbell interview: “Time for solutions is running out”
Former CIBC chief economist Jeff Rubin: Peak-nik
Mexico oil exports plummet
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
Europe’s overseas push into biofuels
Why farm-state pols rage against the EPA’s biofuel stance
New book from National Academies: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Brazil turns to China
– Obama administration accord pushes MPG
Let me take a moment to explain why oil prices reflecting actual market conditions might be important to us. Regardless of whether we are in the Peak Oil Era — we probably are — in 2009, we would like to know at all times what the relative abundance of the Elixir of Life (with respect to demand for it) for Industrial Civilizations is.
The evidence is gaining increasing clarity: We’ve reached a crossroads unlike any other in human history. One path leads to despair for Homo industrialis. The other leads to extinction, for Homo sapiens and the millions of species we are taking with us into the abyss. I’ll take door number one.