Smell the roses – suicidal tendencies
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?
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – June 28
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
Mini case study: peak demand in Germany
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?
Prices & speculators – June 28
Paul Krugman: Fuels on the Hill (blame speculators?)
6 myths about oil speculators
Henry Liu: Flat-earther Thomas Friedman blind to oil facts
ODAC Newsletter – June 27
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Peak oil – June 27
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)
Q&A with Marcel Coutu of Syncrude
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.
Peak oil interviews – June 27
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
Peak Oil Notes- June 26
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and stockpiles
– Nigeria
$140 oil and speculation
A number of factors explain oil price increases perfectly well, with no need to go into conspiracy theories or market manipulations.
Dysfunction – June 26
Canada’s tar sand El Dorado… or is it?
‘I’m waiting for riots in the streets’ – Britain at war over rubbish
Conservative government destroys Atlanta like Gen. Sherman never could (water)
`Demographic winter’ is just overheated rhetoric
Peak oil – June 26
Calm before the storm (Heinberg interview)
Nigeria – significance of the attack on the Bonga offshore oil platform
‘Profit From the Peak’ Q and A
James Howard Kunstler: Penetration
