Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
New York Times columnist calls for a Green Revolution
The Fate of BC’s Carbon Tax
Tea Leaves (Presidential elections and the price of oil)
E&E Daily’s Berman, Geman preview congressional action on energy (video and transcript)
Russia: Folly of the progressive fairytale
How the West is losing the energy cold war
Shut up, Borat – the tinderbox of Kazakhstan oil
Oil crisis hiding in plain sight; pump prices and crude still way ahead of year ago levels
Charlie Maxwell to Barron’s: $300 oil is inevitable
An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply
Soros: The perilous price of oil
Dirty little secret
Kingsnorth trial: Goldsmith defends climate change activists
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Warming oceans make strongest storms stronger: study
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
Mining Oil From WWII shipwrecks
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
Governor Palin – How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone
There are at least two invisible things that tend to be ferociously difficult to understand. One is relations among humans and the other is energy. Especially when the former want more of the latter. And for some reason, understandable perhaps but also unfortunate, we are mostly loathe to try to comprehend where our energy comes from. [Excepts]
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
As it became apparent that hurricane Gustav would cause minimal damage to the Gulf oil infrastructure and that any lost production would be made up from emergency stocks, oil prices began to drop and continued dropping all week. … [However] Gulf and east coast gasoline supplies are getting very close to the level at which shortages could begin.
