Peak oil notes – Apr 9
A weekly update including:
– Prices and production
– General Motors
Fossil Fuels
Housing and urban development – Apr 9
The End of the Roads
Go Out and Play With the City: Matt Jones’s Demon-Haunted World
Vacancies at U.S. Retail Centers Hit 10-Year High, Reis Says
Tollway Investment Woes in Brisbane, Australia
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 9
My week of living (very, very) cheaply
Green Patriot Posters
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
What Can Transition Initiatives Learn from Smallholders?
The peak oil crisis: priorities
The world is entering a great paradigm shift and our place in it will be markedly different 10 or 20 years from now. The most alarming thing to remember is that 95 percent of us have not discovered that major changes are underway and are waiting for economic recovery and new jobs to open up.
Prices & supplies – Apr 8
Forecasting Coal Production Until 2100
In search of Lithium
The Future of Oil Prices
The Green Power Illusion
America is finally showing leadership on climate change. But unfortunately the Obama Administration and the majority of US climate change activists haven’t learned very important lessons from the peak oil debate and look to be leading the world down an illusory path.
Economics – Apr 7
Theory of oil-shock recession
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Chris Cook: Banking on Energy
Oil As Money and the Decline of Energy Earnings
Nabucco pipeline in the cobweb of Byzantine energy politics
Nabucco’s odds appear to be going downhill as confusion over the destiny of Eurasian gas intensifies. Lack of a credible pan-European energy policy, combined with prospects of improvement in Western relations with Iran, makes the future of regional pipeline projects uncertain.
United States – Apr 7
Kunstler: Strange Days
Americans Support Wide Array of Proposed Energy Policies, but Not Yet Ready to Make Tradeoffs
LNG promoters should forget about California
A conversation with Gail-The-Actuary
“The idea of scaling back is a real difficulty for these growth-based medical institutions… and how do you deal with a bigger and bigger uninsured population? How do you provide preventive care [and] some level of basic care” in a post-peak oil world? These are, in my view, the kinds of questions reformers should be asking.”
Peak Oil Review – Apr 6
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The Clean Energy & Security Act
-Cuba
-Detroit
-Briefs
Interview with Matt Simmons, Part 1
“My thinking: do your analysis first; second, check it again; third, don’t rely on a third party; then, if that’s what you conclude, go ahead and speak out with the courage of your convictions.”
