Why the flare-up in oil prices? – May 29
The Oil Drum
Ralph Nader
Wharton School professors
Andrew Leonard at Salon (new)
Fossil Fuels
Cutting fuel subsidies – May 29
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
United Kingdom – May 29
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
Peak oil – May 28
Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We’re not yet at Hubbert’s peak – call it instead ‘de facto peak oil’
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)
Ripples – May 28
Fuel-price protests spread across Europe
Lorry drivers converge on London in fuel protest
High oil prices will hurt trade
U.S. small business crunched by fuel prices
Australia: Waking from the dream
Coal in the United States
Coal currently looks like a solution to many of America’s fast-growing energy problems. However, this is a solution that, if applied on a broad scale, seems certain only to exacerbate the nation’s energy dilemma in the long run, as well as contributing to an impending global climate catastrophe. (Excerpts)
Peak oil – May 27
George Monbiot: Dear Saudi Arabia, only you can save the planet
ASPO Switzerland – first general assembly
Supply-demand imbalance boosts oil prices
South Africa: The end of oil is nigh
Prices & supplies – May 27
Japan blames speculators for oil hike
Saudi Aramco to spend $129 billion from 2009 to 2014
Asking Opec to solve the oil crisis misses the burning point
IEA says optimistic to think oil price will fall much
Peak oil (2) – May 27
Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price “head fake”?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?
Prices and the peak – May 26
David Strahan: What happens next?
Stopping oil’s assault (5 possible solutions)
Oil markets will ignore congressional machinations
Peak oil and off grid
Peak Oil Review – May 26th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– In the Congress
– Subsidies
– The IEA’s Forecast
– Energy Briefs
The illusion of vast undeveloped U.S. oil resources
As Americans become more desperate for oil, I expect that ANWR and offshore areas will be opened for oil development. It will be like burning the furniture to keep the house warm in mid-January. It will be a desperate move that won’t result in much.
