Peak Oil Notes – Dec 4
A weekly update including:
– Prices continue to fall
– Bailing out Detroit
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Dec 3
Charley Maxwell interview
IEA WEO 2008 – Fossil fuel ultimates and CO2 emissions scenarios
World oil forecasts using Wikipedia megaprojects, Dec 2008
Court of Appeals judge: The bell tolls for hydrocarbons: what’s next?
United States – Dec 3
The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local
James L. Jones’ energy views worry some environmentalists
Youth Embarrassed By U.S. Delegation at Climate Conference
Geopolitics – Dec 3
Iraq: The Thirteenth Hour
‘2025’ Report: A World of Resource Strife
Syria hit by double blow on oil prices and falling supplies
BP fights self in phone booth, loses match
British Petroleum ranks as one of the lead members of the peak oil denial club. ASPO’s Colin Campbell and Kjell Aleklett both took BP to task for recent comments slamming the peak oil perspective, even denying its validity.
Does Mr. O Know?
A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They’re discouraged by the advisors and cabinet sectetaries he’s picked, ostensibly because the crew coming in are Washington “insiders,” meaning they can’t possibly see or do things differently.
My own starting point for this is the belief that in the years just ahead any sociopolitical entity organized at the giant scale will flounder — this includes everything from the federal government to global corporations to factory farms to centralized high schools to national retail chains. So even expecting Mr. Obama’s government to act effectively may be asking too much in a situation that will require mostly local action…
Peak Oil Review – Dec 1
A weekly update, including:
– Oil prices
– OPEC
– Investment
– China
– Detroit
Prices & supplies – Nov 29
The return of high oil
Roubini sees oil falling further 20%, hurting Russia
UK’s Michael Meacher: Crude mathematics
The truth behind low oil prices
Peak oil – Nov 27
Robert Bryce turnaround: Gasoline’s cheap again, but peak oil still looms large
Nafeez Ahmed: Food crisis & peak oil
The end of the world as we know it?
Iraq’s oil: The greatest prize of all ?
Gravity check
ODAC Newsletter – Nov 27
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Biofuels & solar – Nov 26
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
Energy policy – Nov 26
CBC finds secret advice to politicians: oilsands emissions hard to scrub
Global oil price collapse
World on cusp of clean tech revolution: Merrill Lynch
Financial crisis? That’s nothing
The IEA WEO 2008: Will coal usage be phased out?
Calls to pump up China’s oil stockpile
