Gas tax: it’s still time to increase it
The gas tax holiday is being properly blasted as the insane idea it is. In that context, could we go one step further and actually suggest that increasing the gas tax makes a lot of sense?
Fossil Fuels
Bartlett’s 43rd peak oil speech to Congress
It is hard for our businesses to see beyond the next quarterly report; hard for elected officials to see beyond the next election. But they were talking about post-oil, and what they would be doing and what the world should be doing now and would be doing in a post-oil world.
Peak oil – May 4
Houston Chronicle: Plateau
Oil is expensive because oil is scarce
Oil giants signal retreat on renewables
The cost of keeping the economy afloat on oil
Oil crisis of the 70s back to haunt us
Oil industry – May 4
Abu Dhabi National Energy CEO: Consumption reform only way to curb oil price
The dangerous delusions of “energy independence”
Big Oil’s widening profit gap
Dead ducks a boon for oil-sands opponents
Peak oil voices – May 4
James Howard Kunstler on the Colbert Report
Kunstler responds to critics
Rep. Bartlett 43rd PO speech to Congress
Heinberg speaks with Vermont leaders
The just-in-time economy crumbles
The realization that just-in-time methods have ceased to serve us well comes at a time when it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to build a stockpile of anything.
Fatih Birol interview: ‘Leave oil before it leaves us’
The International Energy Agency (IEA) gives the alarm: The world could run out of oil faster than expected – the danger of a supply shortage is rising. (Translation of an interview with the chief economist of the IEA)
Peak oil – May 2
Lawmaker to Minn. governor: What happens at the end of oil?
Mass. Governor: We’re “at the end of the age of fossil fuels”
Ottawa Citizen: Peak oil won’t wait for city planners
Heinberg and Van Jones: The future of energy
Deep thought – May 2
TOD Book Review: World Made by Hand
Darley: The day the gas dried up
Food, fuel, finance: crises are intertwined
Longtime environmentalist Speth: capitalism need a radical transformation
Demise of civilisation may be inevitable
Oil industry – May 2
Exxon profit soars, production falls
Lower oil production is the real story
Shell lambasted for pulling out of world’s biggest wind farm
Peak oil quotes
Mexican oil – May 1
Mexico’s oil industry woes – a hopeful turn
Control of Pemex is about national pride
Untapped oil, overtapped politics
Proposals unlikely to improve Mexico’s oil output
Rising energy costs and the future of hospital work
Fossil fuel costs will continue to rise and eventually the healthcare system will be forced to downsize – just as the Baby Boomers and (possibly) climate change effects – inundate the system.
(Paper delivered at a nurses’ convention)
