Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Enjoy low oil prices while you can: Henry Groppe
Get ready for the rebound (analyst Fadel Gheit)
Why peak oil prices may rocket higher (Grandich, Yardeni)
Oil output could fall by 30m bpd by 2015 – Merrill
Iraqi oil minister: OPEC to cut production
Amish help neighbors left without electricity
Obama orders new rules to raise energy efficiency
Why shovel-ready infrastructure is wrong
Fight against Big Coal hits Kansas legislature – national repercussions
Community” is often dismissed as a romantic notion, “harking back a golden age that never existed”. Traditional rural communities tended to be held together by the absence of choice: you were your mother’s daughter or your father’s son, and the range of possible futures – opportunities for travel, education, and employment- were limited.
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Exxon: Juggernaut or Dinosaur?
Time to toll the warning bells
Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy
The Growth Imperative
Sharon Astyk: What’s a Doomer Chick to Do?
James Lovelock interview
Drought threatens Chinese wheat crop
Darley: China Enters A New And ‘Interesting’ Phase
China to Construct 8 Strategic Oil Reserve Bases
A standard story is making the rounds which goes like this: low prices and lack of investment will impair future oil production capacity. When the global economy rebounds, which could happen as early as 2010, oil prices will shoot up again as demand once again outstrips available supply.
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and production
– Growing troubles in Asia
Many voters clearly are beginning to sense there is some kind of unprecedented problem out there, even it is thought of as melting poles and reliance on foreign oil. While they may not understand all the forces that are at play, soaring unemployment, falling home values and collapsing equity markets are getting their attention.
The True 21st Century Begins
The globalisation of addiction
Unwinding Complexity and the Collapse of Societies
Peak oil: a symptom, not a cause
Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
Kunstler’s Road Trip
What Obama Must Do On the Road to Copenhagen
