What lifestyles without oil?
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Fossil Fuels
Coal – July 2
Richard Heinberg: Coal in China
Aluminium supply in deficit on coal shortage – UBS
Equipment shortage slows US coal output growth-CEO
Peak oil – July 2
Peak oil: IEA inches toward the pessimists’ camp
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, on energy security (interview)
Saudi oil project brings skepticism to the surface (Khurais)
Cutler Cleveland: Energy transitions past and future
Will wartime mobilisation address peak oil?
Coal in China
China has encouraged rapid export-led economic growth as a way of putting off dealing with its internal political and social problems. Economic growth requires energy, and China’s energy comes overwhelmingly from coal. The nation’s short-term survival strategy thus centers on producing enormous quantities of coal today, and far more in the future. (Excerpts)
Peak Oil Overview – June 2008
Summary of the peak oil story at June 2008. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Oil prices a speculative bubble? Not so fast!
The breathtaking run-up in oil prices is linked to the crisis of world financial institutions. What the U.S. Government should not do.
Peak Oil – July 1
Cries in the Dark: Wall Street Journal profiles Bartlett, Woolsey, Karsner, Hirsch: These four voices want to make sure policymakers don’t dismiss the energy crisis — again.
Discussion with Matt Simmons
Grist interviews Kunstler
Economics – July 1
With oil at $140 a barrel, can you still love Julian Simon?
Credit-card debt snaring more high-income people
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices (and investors)
Geopolitics – July 1
Seymour M. Hersh: Preparing the battlefield -stepping up secret moves against Iran
U.S. advised Iraqi ministry on oil deals
Iraq’s oil ministry to decide on technical-service contracts
Drill here? – July 1
Gail Tverberg at TOD: The US offshore drilling debate – “start now” or “wait a while”
Three points on ANWR
International Energy Agency says current prices justified
The International Energy Agency published one of its gloomiest ever analyses of the oil markets, asserting that oil prices are justified by fundamentals.
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
