Get ready for the post-SUV world!
SUVs and big pickups are waddling off into the sunset, leaving Americans with no more excuses for the nation’s profligate oil use.
Fossil Fuels
United States & Canada – July 10
Congress feels pressure for action on oil prices
Delta, other airlines urge fliers to lobby Congress about oil
Kunstler: where we’re at
It’s the energy, stupid
Let’s talk about oil speculation, NAFTA and energy policy.
Africa – July 9
Gambia: Biofuel – A ploy, says President Jammeh
Nigeria: Yar’Adua seeks concerted efforts against trade in stolen oil
Nigeria: Nationwide blackout: PHCN begins power rationing today
Peak oil – July 9
Ian Dunlop of ASPO-Australia on “Insight”
ASPO’s Bell says world must adjust to higher oil prices – video
A critical review of IEA’s oil demand forecast for China
Prices & supplies – July 9
Are We in the peak of an oil bubble?
Are big bets by speculators driving up oil?
Oil majors: Oil price hike due to fundamentals, not speculation
Analyzing the analysts (Part 1 of 2)
Oil: the new reality
United States & Canada – July 9
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour’s plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers
Trucking protests – July 9
Protesting truckers bring chaos to New Zealand city streets
German truckers plan to join world fuel-price protests
Truckies threaten two-week strike
Geopolitics – July 9
India left hits out at government
The Iraqi Oil Ministry’s new fave five
Iran to “hit Tel Aviv, U.S. ships” if attacked
Peak toil
Peak toil: A fable of the future?
It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…
What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon
Beware those evil speculators
I’ve refrained up to now on commenting on the “speculators” theory in so far as I mainly believe that it merely represents another form of denial about the alarming oil market fundamentals. But with Congress ready to act to further regulate futures trading on the NYMEX, it’s time to look at the situation more closely.
China’s renewable energy plans: shaken, not stirred
The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.
