Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Recession likely to fuel another roller-coaster ride for oil in 2009
Interview: “Myth of the Oil Crisis”
Gwynne Dyer: IEA says peak oil is coming sooner
Peak uranium: What’s going to fuel all those nuclear plants?
Strahan on the London oil summit
Weekly update from a UK perspective
The issue discussed in this essay is whether the price does or does not tell us about Our Oil Future. It does not. We know the $45 oil price is not right as we look down the road to a time when the global economy rises like a Phoenix from the ashes. Because of the nature of oil pricing, I find it likely that we revisit the 2008 nightmare over and over again in future years.
World Coal Reserves Could Be a Fraction of Previous Estimates
Oil prices ready to recover after $100 fall
Nigeria: Country to Supply 25 Percent of U.S. Oil By 2015
Opec agrees deep cut in oil production
Surviving a reduction in social complexity
Change, but at what price?
David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– The OPEC decision
– IEA says 2020
– The Detroit saga
New Presentations by Matthew Simmons
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Normally staid IEA says oil will peak in 2020
Chile: copper production down, copper price down … and it’s only going to get worse
Oil Prices Below $40 per Barrel
Will postponed investment push peak oil forward?
UK peak oil warning
UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
Panel: Navy will need oil for decades
Hard Task for New Team on Energy and Climate
Red Flags as Washington Gears Up to Remake Energy Policy
What is the next energy source that will give us what oil, coal and natural gas give us today? A Great many scientists, industry leaders and governments throughout the developed world believe that will be methane. More specifically they believe it will be methane hydrates.
Brazil: Petrobras euphoria fades with oil price
Greenwashing a tar sands sacrifice zone
UK faces energy blackouts without investment in nuclear and clean coal
NPR on ‘peak oil theory’
Simmons and Hirch at Energy Roundable
Matt Simmons talk: The three energy amigos
