Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
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
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)
Not Sarkozy. Not Gordon Brown. Not the Wall Street Journal.
The conference begins with an introduction by U.S. Congressional Peak Oil Caucus member Vern Ehlers and a keynote by Dr. David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
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.”
Media and public opinion in Germany reached a turning point on May 21 when the Energy Watch Group presented its report „Global Oil Supply“ study in Berlin’s main press center. The report stated: “Peak oil ist jetzt” (Peak oil is now). In German:
Zukunft der weltweiten Erdölversorgung (EWG)
Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview)
Daniel Yergin: Öl am Wendepunkt
Airbus-Chef warnt vor Kollaps der Luftfahrtindustrie
ASPO-Switzerland (English)
Oil Exporters unable to keep up with demand
Global demand squeezing natural gas supply
The Economist: “Peak oil” or a speculative bubble? Neither, really
Beware the hunt for scapegoats
Dr. David Goodstein calls for “Manhattan Project”-level research on green energy
Reuters: Peak oil: Fact or fallacy
Peak oil protest in Adelaide
The Oil Drum
Ralph Nader
Wharton School professors
Andrew Leonard at Salon (new)
Cutting fuel subsidies will decrease oil demand
Asian countries begin to burst the oil bubble
Crude prices may have peaked but developing countries hold the key
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
