Hoping for a new New Deal
Is it realistic for peak oilers to look to the New Deal as a model of how the US political system could respond to the crisis? A historian of the New Deal is afraid not.
Fossil Fuels
China – Nov 5
PetroChina to surpass Exxon Mobil as most valuable company
China subsidizes rural transportation, urges aid for urban poor following fuel price hike
China to continue raising fuel prices
Warming takes toll on water resources
United States – Nov 5
Clinton’s climate and energy plan: strengths and weaknesses
The green gap
Bingaman seeks response to oil royalty decision ($60 billion for oil companies)
Preparedness for what? Comparing terrorism and peak oil
Whereas terrorism poses no fundamental threat to the functioning of our society, energy decline does because it can degrade non-medical and institutional determinants of health such as education, employment, housing, nutrition, transportation, and sanitation.
Peak Oil Review – November 5th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and prices
– Storms close down Mexican production and exports
– Sadad Al-Husseini gives an interview
– China – Shortages, a price hike and a new ASPO
– Energy briefs
Peak oil – Nov 5
New ‘disaster’ movie warns world of oil apocalypse
Kunstler:
Ignoring the obvious
When will Russia (and the world) decline?
Sleepwalking over the oil peak in Australia
New presentations by Matt Simmons
November issue of ASPO newsletter
Geopolitics – Nov 4
The perils of petrocracy
Iran shuns greenback deals
William Clark updates Petrodollar Warfare (video)
Venezuela won’t seek partners for former Exxon, Conoco fields
Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change and peak oil
The central question facing us is not whether the world will move away from fossil fuels, but how. The primary dispute will be between those who look for short-term solutions to energy supply shocks … and policy advocates with a long-range plan for dealing effectively and peacefully with climate change, adaptation to scarcity, and global inequity.
DOE publishes poster: “Peak Oil – the Turning Point”
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) recently made available on its website a large poster explaining peak oil. Most of the text is reproduced here.
Climate – Nov 3
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Australian researchers report on health effects of climate change
Tar sands growth makes meeting Kyoto targets less likely
Oil industry – Nov 3
Gov’t cannot halt oil incentives, judge rules
A break in Texas’s oil decline
Exxon’s crude nightmare
Is drilling method making people ill?
Oil prices – Nov 3
Citing oil prices, Asia starts reducing fuel subsidies
IEA’s Birol sees hazard in costly oil
Oil prices spur homes to mull gas switch
