Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The United States remains the world’s sole military superpower, but it is unclear what advantage this offers in a world of shrinking energy supplies and intense competition for what remains of them. … there is an ever-growing danger that the major consuming nations will provoke regional arms races and get drawn into local resource disputes, thus increasing the risk of unintended Great Power-conflicts.
Global warming’s new battleground: coal plants
For Navajos, coal means survival
WSJ: coalfields turn into (political) battlefields
The coming war with Iran: It’s about the oil, stupid
Oil and the ‘new international energy order’ (Klare interview)
ADL attacks Swiss-Iranian gas deal
Iraq: What Hillary and Barack don’t want you to know
Project Update (PNAC’s success in Iraq)
EIA conference: Oil prices set to increase further
Comments on Michael Lynch
Rep. Bartlett delivers 41st PO talk
Gail Tverberg: Economic impact of an energy downturn
James Hansen on PO and climate
Petrobras discovers world’s 3rd-largest oil field
WSJ:
Russian oil slump stirs supply jitters
Bakken no energy panacea
Contraction & Convergence proposed in Australian Senate
‘Dammed if we do’ – Traveston dam
Coal to liquids in Australia
Food vs fuel
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
How soaring fuel prices hurt kids
US water pipelines are breaking
Saudi King says keeping some oil finds for future
Saudi cuts output
IEA cuts world oil demand growth by most in 7 years
IMF forecasts slow global growth
Oil price defies easy calculation
US State Dept.’s Izzo ‘frightened’ by NOCs
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Debate in Mexico
– Russia’s Calvary Charge has Probably Ended
– Energy Briefs
Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
“You can play around with the words, but the hard-core truth is that something must come out of the ground at some time and that’s physics,” says Kjell Aleklett, professor in Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and president of ASPO International.
Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning (UK’s lack of)
Peak and ye shall find – it doesn’t have to be so bad
Billions of barrels of oil may lie under Northern Plains
There’s gas in those hills (Pennsylvania)
