Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cyclists pulling huge cargo loads (YouTube)
6,000 bikes in 400 locations: Boris Johnson’s bike-hire scheme
The car club that’s joined the fast lane as drivers go without their own set of wheels
Does Amtrak want the good news or the bad news first?
At Exxon, Making the Case for Oil
NYT suckered by ExxonMobil in puff piece titled ‘Green is for Sissies’
Somali pirates seize tanker carrying oil worth $100m
With U.S. and EU participation, a vital meeting in the Hungarian capital next January will seal commitments for the long-contemplated Turkey-Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria (Nabucco) gas pipeline. Opposition from Russia’s mighty Gazprom, uncertainty surrounding relations with Iran, and the roiling world economic turmoil cast doubt on the project’s future.
Dash for oil highlights fears of Italy’s regions
Interior Dept sets rules for oil shale program
Oil Shale Pushed as Domestic Oil Source, but Many Doubts Remain
ASPO-USA: IEA acknowledges ‘patently unsustainable’ trends in global energy supply and consumption
TOD:Europe on the IEA report
Sticking to the Diet
The IEA has given us the tools to analyze and draw our own conclusions. Knowing the driving forces behind this report, this is only the beginning of their valuable work. On the shoulders of their report it is up to others, like us, to shout: “Fire in the theater!”
Transition: gearing up for the great power-down
Fruit and veg boom needed to feed Britain
Strahan: Letter to the Energy Secretary
Homes with no electric shocks from the bills
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– The Next OPEC Meeting
– The IEA Report
– Venezuela & the price drop
– General Motors
– Briefs
Environmentalists win big EPA ruling on coal emissions
Does natural-gas drilling endanger water supplies?
Limited feasibility of Carbon Capture and Storage systems will mean more nuclear electric power
From the perspective of biophysical economics
Comments from new German peak oil site
From Sri Lanka: Peak oil’s bell is ringing
Andrew McKillop: Global energy transition plan
Robert Hirsch tells peak oilers to (temporarily) pipe down
‘Peak oil’ adherents grow in number and influence
Life after (peak) oil in North Carolina
‘Energy Beyond Oil’ presentation now on-line
Peak oil is subject of short story contest winner
Few people can have a better knowledge of Iraq’s oil than Dr. Issam A. R. al-Chalabi. Kjell Aleklett reports on a detailed discussion with the man who has been chairman for SCOP, the State Company for Oil Projects, the chairman of INOC, the Iraq National Oil Company, as well as Iraq’s vice-oil minister and oil minister.
