Open letter to Kevin Rudd, Australia’s new Prime Minister
The newly elected PM is taking over at a time of looming economic crisis due to Peak Oil. An Australian engineer describes the problem and outlines the steps he thinks are required.
Fossil Fuels
Remembering and learning from a legend
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of peak oil, died suddenly and unexpectedly on October 30 of a heart attack. During this century he spoke out and wrote early and often about the subject of peak oil and its looming consequences.
Peak Oil Review – December 3rd, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– The Venezuelan Election
– Energy Briefs
Peak oil – Dec 4
Does the latest IEA number matter?
Trends directing flow of capital into oil markets
World likely to rely on Saudi oil
Hirsch warns about peak oil
Of hierarchies, thresholds and oil
Peak oil in the Australian media
ODAC news
Peak Oil Review from ASPO-USA
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 4
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
What will we eat as the oil runs out?
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
Oil producers – Dec 2
The high-stakes U.S. courtship of Turkmenistan
Venezuela threatens to cut oil exports to U.S
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
OPEC countries will rival China in 08 oil demand growth
Oil industry – Dec 2
Fire shuts key Canada-U.S. pipeline
Big Gav on shale oil
Massive Canadian oilfield could be exploited using new system (THAI)
Our medical system: it’s time to face peak oil
Medical executives center their attention on “cost, quality and coverage” while considering rising energy prices, especially oil, a minor concern. This is a colossal misjudgment of medicine’s dependence on fossil fuels and the fact that the “hydrocarbon era” is entering its final stages.
What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Surfing the ultimate peak
The image of a surfer chasing a tanker illustrates perfectly the oil-dependence of the sport as a whole. It is the definition of a free ride.
