Oil prices & supplies – Mar 17
Cheney: high oil price reflects market reality
They see bubbles everywhere now
Shell CEO: no problem with oil supplies
Weak dollar fuels energy price rise
Record oil divorced from fundamentals-OPEC delegate
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil camp – Mar 17
How shipping containers shortened the lifespan of petro-civilization
Is peak oil theory only for fascists?
“Energy Descent Pathways” now online
Simmons: Key investment questions For 2008+
Sydney must prepare now for peak oil
Sharon Astyk: Dinner, and whether you’ll be getting any, to 2050
Kunstleriana
Oil producers – Mar 17
Gulf currencies may drop dollar peg
UAE: Gas shortage to double cost of electricity
Venezuela wants euros for some fuel exports
Mexico leftist seizes oil reform to drive comeback
Stalking the Arctic
U.S., Iraq, oil – Mar 17
A crude case for war?
Iraq’s insurgency runs on stolen oil profits
Cheney to Mideast with ‘rich agenda’ on oil, peace
Do we have too much energy?
Our biggest challenge is not related to getting enough energy. Our biggest challenge is to understand our relationship with energy and to recast it so that we may live more harmoniously with the world around us.
The peak oil crisis: the last spiral?
Missing from all the talk about the financial situation is a realistic appreciation of the role of oil in the world’s economy and the role increasing oil prices will play in the coming economic “recovery.”
Peak oil overview – March 2008
Peak oil update in the format of a downloadable presentation with comments. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Geopolitical – Mar 12
Courage to cut Iran’s petrol subsidies?
Impact of climate change on six regions
Khartoum’s boom (Sudan oil)
United Kingdom – Mar 12
Queen urges action, not talk, to tackle climate change
Ministers challenged over backing for coal-fired power station
Darling plans Labour’s greenest budget yet
Government backs coal-fired power stations
Oil prices – Mar 12
Oil prices rocket close to $110
Oil watchdog IEA to analyse record highs
IEA: no likely relief from oil prices
Peak oil – Mar 12
Spitzer successor would be US’s 4th black governor (and 1st PO-aware governor)
Michael Klare: $100+ oil and what it means
Kunstler: Kiss the gas-guzzling NASCAR era good-bye
The Saudis are blowing smoke again
Shortly after the oil price shattered the record inflation-adjusted high set in 1980, OPEC decided to sit on its hands and let events take their course… Despite some financial considerations, most of the oil price results from a fundamental disequilibrium between supply and demand in the oil markets.
