Transport – May 23
Cheap flights boom over, says BA chief
Crisis for US airlines as oil prices defy gravity
Ford cuts production, moves back profit goal
Why bikes are a sustainable wonder
Fossil Fuels
Drilling – May 23
Rep. Bartlett, in reversal, backs drilling in Arctic refuge
Drilling top priority for America
Florida senator: Drilling is no solution
Feds: Much of oil, gas under lands off limits
Oil industry – May 23
Oil execs defend huge profits before Senate
Oil companies plan on higher crude prices
Crude’s price surge attracts oil-field thieves
Garages use ‘stingers’ to combat petrol theft
Oil producers – May 23
The Saudis vote for Obama (by saying ‘no’ to Bush)
Growing demand in producing countries pushes up price
Indonesia: Thousands protest fuel price plan
Indonesia: Oil firms short on output targets
ODAC Newsletter – 23 May 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Australia – May 23
Time for the price of fuel to rise above politics
No silver bullet for fuel prices: Rudd
How petrol is putting Sydney under the pump
Prices – May 23
Producers say $200 oil is possible
Oil is little changed, after falling on signs that gains are unjustified
Soros, Ghanem, Tanaka, Chalabi on $135 oil
Skyrocketing oil prices stump experts
Another day, another record: oil tops $135
Experts: High oil prices are here to stay
Peak oil – May 23
Chris Skrebowski on BBC News: ‘We’re in the foothills of peak oil’
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Shell, on peak oil
Peak oil in Paris: IEA now skittish too
Wall Street succumbs to peak oil
IEA plans to lower oil supply forecast
The Wall Street Peak Oil Journal
Why Dems and Republicans are afraid of two words: peak oil
Bubbles burst – May 23
Why the oil price means bubble trouble
They’re wrong about China and oil
Oil prices will eventually return to earth
Engdahl: the real reason behind high oil prices
Cars – May 23
Is Japan facing a post-car society?
Ford’s Mulally calls pickup retreat `fundamental’
Hybrid sales are zooming
Gas prices shorten trips for U.S. Memorial Day
Oil the news oil the time
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
The peak oil crisis: The Secretary of Transition
As gasoline prices go higher and higher and as the polls show voters more and more concerned about how they are going to fill their tanks, the Congress is starting to stir.
