Peak oil primers
Gail Tverberg: Peak oil overview
Nate Hagens: Peak oil – whom to believe?
Sharon Astyk: Peak energy overview
Energy Bulletin: Peak oil primer
Fossil Fuels
Responses – May 22
The changing role of the peak oil-aware
Astyk: So, you’ve just discovered peak oil!
NZ Guide to Surviving the Future 2008
Dangers of focusing solely on climate change (or PO)
Peak oil – May 22
WSJ: Oil monitor to slash estimate of world’s supply of crude (IEA pessimism)
Globe & Mail:
Record oil prices signal ‘new world’
‘Peak oil scenario’ approaching faster than expected
United Kingdom – May 22
Road policy oil assumptions attacked ($70 a barrel in 2020!)
Put UK airport expansion on hold, demands green group
Erosion of Britain’s peatlands
Peak oil notes
Late-breaking developments:
– Prices
– The International Energy Agency
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.
Peak oil acceptance on its way in financial markets
Financial markets had not reflected peak oil in crude oil forward prices. In the past week the long end of the curve has drifted up dramatically.
Can we say that the market at last believes in peak oil? This article suggests a quantitative way to answer the question.
Blaming speculators – May 21
Are commodity traders bidding up food, fuel prices?
Are pension funds fueling high oil?
Senate takes on oil, food speculators
Gambling with the futures (primer)
Prices & supplies – May 21
Supply worries lift crude to yet another new high
Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world (??)
Kazakhstan bans export of oil products amid soaring fuel costs
Our phony economy
Skewed expectations, for both oil and the economy as a whole, will eventually lead us down the garden path to ruin. … All bogus numbers, whether they come from the EIA or the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are part and parcel of attempts to manage our behavior to keep the growth party going.
Oil jumps $10 in a day and Congress … wants to sue OPEC?
The current “boiling frog” price increases (ie, slowly and without a big shock) are unlikely to lead to shortages or rationing in the short term, because that’s not where the problem is – the big problem is with respect to future supplies.
