Oil prices – Apr 1
Indonesia feels pinch as oil, commodity prices surge
Truckers to protest fuel costs
China diesel rationed, despite government pledges
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Apr 1
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
ODAC Newsletter – Mar 28
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Peak Oil Review — March 31st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Basra
– China
– Food Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Confessions of a peak oil writer
I’ve come to accept that my influence is going to be very limited. The trick is not to let frustration hamper your ability to do a job you still consider important. While we can be encouraged by the example of the geologist M. King Hubbert, we don’t have 30 years to get this peak oil problem straightened out.
Geopolitics – Mar 30
John Gray: Those who control oil and water will control the world
UN rejects water as basic human right
Steve LeVine interview: Caspian oil struggle
Iraq surge doomed – cause? oil
Answer to Sunni-Shia conlict: gardening
Countdown to $?? oil – setting the stage
I’ve been promising to create a new target for the successor of the “Countdown to $100 oil” series, but I’m in a quandary as to what new target to select. So what are the factors driving oil prices in the near and medium term?
Hansen to Australian PM: stop coal plants now
Text of letter from climate scientist James Hansen to Australian PM Kevin Rudd calling on Rudd to provide global leadership to to climate change by ordering a halt to the “construction of coal-fired power plants that do not capture and sequester the C02” they produce.
A response to Romm on peak oil
It’s high-time for climate activists to wake up and smell the coffee on peak oil. Peak oil problems are immediate and inimical to our ability to solve all the other problems we have — including climate.
Oil supplies – Mar 29
WSJ: Saudi desert’s gas mirage?
Greenland thaw may replace dog sleds with oil drills
Natural gas rush in Pennsylvania
China faces diesel, gasoline shortages
Peak oil – Mar 29
Udall, Lovins and Shell v-p on peak oil
Russian oil output to fall for first time in a decade
Sharon Astyk: Dissecting the Long Emergency
Peak oil is here, enjoy
Colin Campbell and the crack of doom
