Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dr. Bakhtiari was well known throughout the Peak Oil community, but was of particular importance because he was one of the few members who came from an OPEC country, Iran. Before his recent retirement, he had worked as a senior expert for the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) since 1971.
Coverage improves in quality and quantity:
TIME Magazine
Houston Chronicle
UK Telegraph
UK Sunday Mirror
The Star (Canada)
Perhaps the public would be better served if all those who are now under orders to use euphemisms when referring to peak oil were to follow Alfred Kahn’s lead and use the word “banana” in their place.
As the price of crude oil sets new records almost daily, the British government remains stunningly complacent. With the $100 barrel looming, the prime minister’s website blithely proclaims “the world’s oil and gas resources are sufficient to sustain economic growth for the foreseeable future.”
The IEA predicts that an astonishing 42% of increased demand for oil will come from China and India alone, and there is a simple reason for their growing thirst. When incomes rise, people want cars. When people want cars, they require fuel to run them.
The Wall Street Journal’s story marks an important turning point in the public’s understanding of peak oil.
Nigeria seeks control of energy industry
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world (10/tie: Angola/Equatorial Guinea)
Bad news from Canada
New oil crisis: an engineer shortage
Endings aren’t always happy
The freezing point of industrial society
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark
Houston Chronicle: Crude crunch coming
This week in petroleum
Motley Fool’s new energy blog
Mid-month oil reality check (contango rising)
TOD’s Energy and Environment Round-Up
Clarke’s wager and the fate of civilization
A new exhibition considers the lessons of the 1973 oil crisis
Give thanks for oil – and OPEC
A petroleum engineer, former chair of API-Houston, has started a peak oil blog and summarized the recent ASPO-USA conference.
Long-term oil gloom spreads in Houston
Heinberg: preparing for a world without oil
Is the decline of base production accelerating? (“hardcore PO wonkery”)
Decline rates from the megaproject forecasts
Wired on WSJ peak oil article
WSJ takes peak oil seriously – need another fringe topic
Peak oil- How will you ride the slide?
Energy Bulletin on the Reality Report
