Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
Written with the satirical wit of modern Voltaire, Orlov goes where few other peak oil writers have dared to go, and his sardonic Russian humor allows a stark look at American prospects through the eyes of someone who has witnessed collapse first hand.
Prices won’t be falling anytime soon
Paul Krugman: Confusions about speculation
The speculation explanation: framing the energy crisis
Michael Klare: End of the petroleum age?
Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out (Simmons)
Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions
Peak scam
In a world where fertile soil is an endangered resource, millions of acres of our nation’s best agricultural soil are covered with ornamental shrubs and lawns. Soil can be brought into production for agriculture only at great economic and environmental cost. Why do we allow so much of what we have to remain unproductive?
Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas?
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008, German Primary Energy consumption dropped -5.6% in 2007. What does the German example mean for everyone else?
Paul Krugman: Fuels on the Hill (blame speculators?)
6 myths about oil speculators
Henry Liu: Flat-earther Thomas Friedman blind to oil facts
New Scientist: ‘Oil: The final warning’
Democracy Now: A look at the new geopolitics of energy
What can history teach us about forecasts of energy use?
Peak oil profits ARM processors
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
WSJ: Former Saudi officials at odds over ‘peak’ theory
Rep. Bartlett speech on peak oil
Mark Lynas : After the oil crunch?
And so it goes: the story of Kashagan (Caspian oil field)
All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.
