Peak Oil News Network – Nov 29
Monitoring news for the peak oil community:
The Bullroarer (Australia-NZ)
DrumBeat (U.S.)
Finance, Earth and Energy Roundups (Canada)
Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (UK)
Fossil Fuels
Middle East – Nov 29
Saudi Arabia arrests 208 in antiterrorism sweep
Boom fuels new Saudi spending spree
Iraq’s uncertain oil and political prospects (by former minister of oil)
Oil producers – Nov 29
Petrodollars make Russia giddy
Caspian tales
Author of Untapped on African oil
10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
Brazil’s oil: new wealth or petro-populism?
Venezuelan sales of oil byproducts to the US down
National oil firms gain edge on Exxon
Climate policy – Nov 29
James Hansen on peak oil, coal and climate
Cities brace for global warming
Bernie Sanders: Global warming is reversible
10 years to fix climate: UN
World Bank should account for climate
Pew’s Diringer on upcoming talks in Bali
Oil prices – Nov 28
How high can the price of a barrel of crude go?
$100 oil and the ‘S’ word (speculation)
Seven questions: the price of fear
Deep thought – Nov 28
Jamais Cascio’s Green tomorrows: 4 scenarios
The technodevelopmental quartet
Australia, the place to be
Coal – Nov 28
Indiana OKs coal plant that can fight carbon
Environmentalism and the future of coal
Questioning peak oil economic assumptions
Peak oil proponents assume a simple model of the relation between oil supply or price shocks and economic performance. Economists have called into question some aspects of that model.
Bite of high oil prices only beginning
What’s in store for us after the peak? A decline in oil supply, and even higher oil prices. I see three possible roads to higher oil prices.
Outlook for fuel reserves
Long and detailed analysis of the complete fossil fuel cycle by Dr. M. K. Hubbert (1976). Full text available as a PDF. Previously unavailable.
Peak oil in the media – Nov 27
Radio Netherlands: The Age of Petroleum draws to a close (Michael Klare)
Matt Simmons on NPR
TIME business columnist: Maybe those peak oil people weren’t crazy after all
ODAC News
Oil prices – Nov 27
Fortunes shift as oil prices soar
A big toll on small oil businesses
Fuel prices produce gasps, fumes in Eastern Sierra town
Gas thefts on the rise
