Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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 …
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.
Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready
Geoscientist: Peak Oil Now? If so, Oil Prices Not Likely to Decline–Ever
Waking up to the threat of ‘peak oil’
Oilwatch Monthly – August 2008
Krugman: The Great Illusion
Jad Mouawad of NY Times: US efforts threatened
TOD: Georgia discussion
The bear’s Achilles heel
CSM: Petropolitics at heart of Russia-Georgia clash
Georgia Pipeline is new Strait of Hormuz
Michael Klare interview
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
Jeff Vail: Theory of disruptions to oil & resource supply
Al Franken touts energy proposals
Calif Atty General Jerry Brown: Ignore peak oil and be caught with your pants down
Bull on energy, a bear on nearly everything else: Eric Sprott
Murti’s detractors eat crow
WaPo: Prices driving increased extraction
Why does abiotic oil theory ignite peak oil theorists’ fulminations?
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
In the heady month of July 2008 oil skyrocketed to $147 a barrel more than doubling the price of crude over the 12 months to that time. Many thought oil would race past the $150 mark on the way to $200 and to $300 a barrel, and beyond in the imminent year or two ahead.
