Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If the peak theory proves true, the intersection between rising worldwide demand and a decline in world production would likely drive prices much higher, giving drillers even more incentive to go after every last drop of oil they can find in old fields as well as new ones. (Texas oil man Jim Baldauf, co-founder of ASPO-USA, is interviewed.)
I’ve been reading John Michael Greer’s Archdruid Report for a few months now and I thought his book would be pretty esoteric, but it’s actually brilliant in its simplicity and a much-needed wise and reasonable voice for the peak oil community
Long term oil is headed back up, for all the familiar reasons. Really, it’s not like anyone is finding new large oil deposits out in exploration land. Indeed, a whole lot of looking is leading to not very much finding in the exploration patch.
Amid all the discussion about peak oil, one voice has been conspicuously absent, that of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC’s position on the petroleum-resource question should be the decisive factor in this ongoing and seemingly inconclusive debate. The organization now supplies about 42 percent of the world’s petroleum …
American Conservative on peak oil: Mayberry, not Mad Max
A failure to prepare for the what should have been expected
How to burn the speculators
Unraveling the unraveling
Oman turns to coal for power
Carbon sequestration frustration
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place
The end of cheap clothes is near
Dressing Locally
Waste management
Bolivia gets the change it asked for
Life is a misery for ‘married bachelors’ in the UAE
Fresh start for Nigerian oil activists?
What is the future of suburbia? A freakonomics quorum
Watch where you’re walking (audio, slideshow)
Kunstler: Anti-Urban Bias (audio)
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Oil from the Caspian
– Chinese Demand
– Briefs
Bumps on the road to a greener city
San Francisco peak oil town hall meeting: What’s happening with oil? (audio)
Fred’s footprint: the best solution to climate change
Survey of the ecological and economic resources critical to the perpetuation of our American way of life.
