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Heinberg: Oil and politics
National Geographic: World oil demand surging as supplies approach limits
19th century whaling as a model for oil depletion
More geological analysis of potential Saudi depletion
Homer-Dixon on PO and climate
Oil industry costs continue steep rise: CERA
ConocoPhillips: High oil prices not “a friend”
Emerging markets ‘to keep oil prices high’
Fund manager: Oil could reach $200
Fuel subsidies part of the problem?
No plans to cut crude exports: Iran official
Money motivates Iran to consider output cut
Oil’s murky math (lack of good data)
High oil prices rekindle oil production in Mo.
The evidence is mounting that the U.S. 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, followed by actual shortages here in the United States.
Iran report pushes oil to new record, gas jumps above $3.73
Iran ‘reviewing’ crude output cut
Senate votes to halt strategic oil stockpiling
‘Congress should not tamper with the SPR’
Senators threaten Saudi arms deal over oil prices
Floods in Australia coal-mine raise costs of cars, planes, washers
Gas ‘chimneys’ sweep BP clean coal plan away
New wave of nuclear plants faces high costs
Prices may fall later this year, but will not likely dip below the $110/barrel floor price. It is actually more likely that the price will continue to rise this year, as Goldman Sachs believes, because 1) stuff happens, e.g. deepwater project delays, project cost inflation, blown-up pipelines, and 2) we are now living in Flatland.
Martin Wolf (FT): oil prices an ‘an early warning of stark reality’
CNN briefing on oil
Truth and lies about world’s oil supply
Glenn Beck interviews Kunstler
Peak oil on BBC’s ‘You and Yours’
Hints of a shift at OPEC about a rise in output
Bush prepares to press Saudis on oil
European natural gas security
Nanotechnologies could improve oil recovery
Dion, leader of Canada Liberals: ‘the peak oil era is happening and we need to prepare’
Heinberg on Australia’s “Lateline”
Paul Krugman: The oil nonbubble
The peak oil culture wars
An oil bubble? EIA’s odd forecasts
Popular Mechanics on peak oil
Does peak oil mean no more large engines?
Pets pay as household costs soar
UK costs climb at fastest pace in 20 years
How the energy crunch hurts UK
America’s money: Gas crunch hits home
The post-oil novel began as a little-known aberration within the speculative fiction genre. But it’s now hitting bestseller lists, generating comment in major papers, and garnering increasing acceptance from the mainstream of speculative fiction. Frank Kaminski takes a spirited, authoritative look at this blossoming subgenre
