Coal – May 19
Coal industry turns up heat in ad campaign
The world has enough coal reserves for 100 years: true or false?
Why investors worship Old King Coal
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil Review – May 19th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Iran’s Production Cut
– Energy Briefs
Distillates
The evidence is mounting that the US might just encounter the first real crisis of the oil depletion age before the year is out. The crisis at first will be one of spiraling prices for diesel and heating oil that will cause considerable economic havoc, and then there may be actual shortages right here in the United States.
Peak oil and the oil export–import game
The president of ASPO-International was invited to write a comment to the article “The market sets high oil prices to tell us what to do” by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times.
Supply side follies
Lower oil production, exploding production costs and capturing a shrinking fraction of oil profits has not prevented oil companies from enjoying record high profits. These profits are so large that they have masked the fact that US corporate profits are otherwise in the doldrums
Hard times – May 18
Soaring bills leave families just £50 a week
Saving for survival: New Zealand traditions
Astyk: Tinkerbelle economy starts to falter
What if gas cost $10 a gallon?
Supplies & prices – May 18
Saudis protect own interests in oil production
Goldman sees oil averaging $141 in 2nd half
Want cheaper gas and oil? End the damned wars!
US natural gas: the role of unconventional gas
US natural gas production has been flat for a number of years. We keep hearing that US production is expected to begin declining sometime in the next few years, but it doesn’t seem to happen. While it is not obvious from most published data, the reason production remains level is because unconventional gas production has been rising.
Stop me before I fill up again!
It is a supreme irony that a wealthy Bedouin should be playing the role of a tough-love drug counselor to the world’s oil-addicted consumers even as he continues to be the globe’s biggest pusher
Politicians on peak oil – May 17
Queensland Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara
Andy Welti (Minnesota House)
Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer
Peak oil – May 17
High steel prices: A preview of peak oil
Peak Oil doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off
Peak oil: alive and well at Sprott
Peak oil Australia
Prices & supplies – May 17
UK BERR projects oil at $70 in 2020
Some see oil bubble; others see trouble
Refiners see profits sink as consumption falls
LA Times: Keep stockpiling oil
