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
Fossil Fuels
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.
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Nuclear & sequestration – June 30
ITER costs give partners pause (fusion pricetag jumps)
Nuclear cost estimates may put end to renaissance
Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2
Geopolitics – June 30
Report: U.S. ‘preparing the battlefield’ in Iran
Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy
Dubai: spots on the sun
Michael Meacher: The era of oil wars
Bill Moyers: It was oil, all along (in Iraq)
Are they really oil wars?
Peak Oil Review — June 30, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Forecasts
– Shortages
– Energy Briefs
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.”
Energy policies – June 30
Canada: Energy supplants environment as top concern
Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’
Korea: Oil prices prompt crisis response
Germany has world’s biggest cut in energy use in 2007
Germany approves ambitious CO2 reduction measures
