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
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil – May 21
U.S. military launches alternate-fuel push (some officers embrace PO planning)
Hirsch on CNBC: PO problem ‘as massive as one can possibly imagine’
Defying the experts
Three raging bulls as oil barrels higher
The Sigmoid Fraud
Blaming OPEC – May 21
House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices
OPEC to blame for high oil prices?
Fuelling Brown’s desperate attack on OPEC
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.
Prices & supplies – May 20
Oil rises on speculation Saudi supply increase won’t cut prices
UK’s Brown calls for end to the power of Opec
Not enough oil is lament of BP, Exxon
Peak oil movement – May 20
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Peak oil – May 20
Financial Times: Fears over oil supply move into the mainstream (‘Are the peak oilists right?’)
Jeffrey Brown’s warning on oil producers’ own rising consumption gains Wall St backing
What the Export Land Model means for energy prices
Has peak oil as a meme “tipped”? (out of futures backwardation and into contango)
CNN on peak oil
Why planning for $200 barrel oil is so important
With the oil price looking pretty settled above $126 a barrel, what does the UK Government estimate the future oil price to be? Clearly one would imagine that as the most responsible body in the land, charged with making long term decisions that affect us all, they would have their fingers on the pulse of this one. Unfortunately the official position is as insulting as it is pathetic.
United States – May 20
FT: US begins to break foreign oil addiction
America must face the harsh realities over oil
Robert Bryce: Delusions of energy independence
