Housing & urban design – Apr 11
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Apr 11
Rep. Bartlett at Ohio State teach-in
Chinese scholar on oil: Old supply, young demand
Wither peak oil at Rudd’s 2020 Summit?
IMF accepts peak oil ?
James Hansen: Yankee ticket prices and fossil fuels
The peak oil crisis: The first shortages
Fuel prices alone are unlikely to bring America to its senses. It clearly will take outright shortages with lines at the pumps, curtailed deliveries and many other misfortunes before serious measures –- speed limits, rationing, mandatory car pools, improved mass transit — are taken.
Boomtown
What happens when an oil field as big as any in the Middle East is discovered in the desolate border towns of Montana and North Dakota?
Oil – Apr 9
FT: Forget about ‘peak oil’ and instead focus on ‘peak power’
State oil industry’s future sets off tussle in Mexico
Chevron reportedly in talks to tap Iraq’s oil
Lost at sea
What effects have oil price increases had on real U.S. GDP growth in the last 7 years? To be honest, nobody really knows—yet. We will all find out eventually.
Energy industries – Apr 8
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
Geopolitics – Apr 8
New book from Michael Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
China’s shopping spree for resources
Battle for Basra timeline: footsteps to US war in Iran?
Peak oil – Apr 8
Matt Simmons sounds the alarm at EIA conference
Kazakhstan may impose oil duty from 2008
Minister: Australia’s own ‘peak oil’
Trinidad: Sweet in we mouth
IEA’s Birol says oil prices to stay high
Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Prices, Production and Exports
– Electricity Shortages and Diesel
– Rice, Inflation and Oil
– Massachusetts Hosts a Meeting
– Energy Briefs
ODAC Newsletter – Apr 4
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Mideast oil exporters – Apr 6
Energy demand in Gulf States to curtail oil exports
Dubai power shortage continues to deepen
Qatar says it will continue to peg its currency to the falling dollar
Iranian Pres. calls for joint OPEC bank, currency
