Peak oil – Jan 24
Candid piece on PO from Bloomberg: “Prius designer says industry must lose oil addiction”
Energy: Centre of power is on the move
The universal mining nachine
Oil pimping: Kunstler interview
Fossil Fuels
The peak oil crisis: The future of cars – part 1
Since the end of World War II, the private gasoline-powered automobile has become the center of life in America. There are few other cultures in the world today that are not trying to emulate America as soon as their economic circumstances permit.
ODAC Guest Commentary to CERA Press Release
CERA, the prominent Boston based Cambridge Energy Research Associates (www.cera.com) issued a puzzling 4 page press release on January 17, titled “No Evidence of Precipitous Fall on Horizon for World Oil Production: Global 4.5% Decline Rate Means No Near-Term Peak”.
Coal – Jan 23
Coal is no longer on front burner
James Hansen: The need for an international moratorium on coal power
China’s coal
Life cycle comparison of coal and natural gas
Peak everything economics, or, what do you call this mess?
If you’re interested in finding shelter during the storm, get thee to the productive side of the economy. Grow something, or learn to make or repair something useful.
Fuel prices – Jan 23
Nepal: Massive hike in prices of diesel, kerosene, LPG
Nepal students burn tyres to protest fuel hike
High gas prices: Recession-proof
Peak oil – Jan 23
Sharon Astyk: Is relocalization doomed?: a response to Stuart Staniford
Mexico’s crude oil production fell 5.3% in 07
$100 oil – futurist revisits predictions
Is PO good news or bad for hydro and seismic operators?
The end of cheap oil: Are you ready, supply chain managers?
Peak oil – Jan 22
The fallacy of reversibility: why peak oil actually helps industrial agriculture
OPEC Secretary-General : ‘International oil companies are the real dinosaurs’
Not “peak oil” but “trough oil”!
Review: Shell Game by Steve Alten
“How to Boil a Frog” on peak oil
Energy industry – Jan 21
Prospecting for gas and oil in Lake Geneva
Panel: state of the energy industry
Oilsands producers get failing grade on environment
Coal industry plugs into the campaign
The coal truth on candidates
Peak oil – Jan 21
Wall St. Journal on CERA report
The construction site called Saudi Arabia
Shell exec on oil demand, climate and the energy ladder
CERA’s silly season
Bush’s allusion to peak oil
Tough sledding on other side of peak oil
EU energy chief warns about ‘peak oil’
Peak Oil Review – January 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil — Pro and Con
– Kashagan
– Food versus Fuel Again
– Energy Briefs
CERA’s depletion study: the “good news” about running up the down escalator
There’s more spin on this report than there is kudzu in Georgia. …Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, on behalf of ASPO-USA, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.
