All that’s wrong with ‘common wisdom’ in one article
Is Gordon Brown to be blamed for the UK’s oil problems?
Fossil Fuels
ASPO-USA conference Sept 21-23 in Sacramento
ASPO-USA’s fourth annual “Dialogue with the Experts,” a high-level conference to discuss impacts of and responses to a peak in world oil production.
Coal – June 1
Mounting costs slow the push for clean coal
Buried, but not dead (sequestration)
Jim Hansen: How to get off coal
Prices & supplies – June 1
CFTC to examine oil traders’ intent, ex-officials say
Russian oil output down 0.3% in Jan-Apr 08
Behind skyrocketing oil prices
Energy policies – June 1
Forgotten themes – how Australia is coping
Why I was wrong about rationing
UK power giant says energy industry on the brink of radical change
Pushing South (Canadian pipelines)
Oil well in South Downs is ‘act of vandalism’
United States – June 1
T. Boone Pickens on future of energy (video)
Do we need an energy “Manhattan Project”?
Drill now – Georgia’s Westmoreland
Peak oil – June 1
Kenneth Deffeyes: Oil production, oil price
TOD: Peak oil media
Kunstler on reactivating small cities, Peak Oil New Zealand
Tennessee: So long to cheap oil
Report on Michigan peak oil conference
Prices & supplies – May 31
Texas to experience effects of export decline?
Venezuela increases petroleum imports despite vast deposits at home
Crude falls $4 as higher prices curb demand
IEA foresees more expensive oil
Peak Oil will be politicians’ best friend
I left International Transport Forum at Leipzig with the feeling that the future’s biggest questions, energy and climate, lacked leadership. There is nobody who will stand up and say “I have a dream” but rather it is nightmares that are discussed. Peak Oil will, in future, become the politician’s best friend since Peak Oil will reduce CO2 emissions from oil and become a part of the solution that the politicians cannot agree on… Those that actively accept and respond to the Peak Oil idea will be the winners of the future. (Report from a meeting of European transport ministers)
Speculators – May 31
Speculation – but not manipulation
Regulators step up probes of trading in oil markets
Commodity policies set for revision
Regulators strengthen oversight of energy markets
Oil traders reduced bets on rising prices as crude hit records
Traders and commodity exchanges fight back
ODAC Newsletter – 30 May 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Australian EB editor on oil, the economy and the future
The popular online politics magazine, Crikey, grilled Adam Grubb, the Australian editor of Energy Bulletin, about oil futures.
“Peak oil and climate change present us with an unprecedented challenge: how to begin consuming radically less fossil fuels while maintaining dignified lifestyles and essential services.”
