Geopolitics – Oct 27
Endgame for Iraqi oil?
How secure are Middle East oil supplies?
Stan Goff’s Energy War now online
Re-visiting “Petrodollar Warfare”
Fossil Fuels
Iran worries and oil prices – Oct 26
Strike on Iran would roil oil markets
Iran – tension and pressure up again
Oil rises to record over $92 after U.S. says Iran backs terror
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Canada – Oct 26
Brave B.C. talks true carbon tax
Second inconvenient truth: greenhouse gases must be taxed
Alberta royalty grab stuns oil industry
Is Alberta out of step with the world? (no)
Rabaska: une étude démolit l’argument écologique (problems of energy substitution in a free market)
Beyond the age of petroleum
This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency.
Peak oil and oil prices – Oct 25
Platts on ASPO-USA conference
Blogorithm – the quality of PO analyses
Bloomberg quotes ASPO, Energy Watch Group
Oil rises on falling U.S. stockpiles, new Iran sanctions
Oil hits record above $90 on OPEC report
Shell chief blames speculators for oil price
Where is Alberta? Why should you care?
Can it really be true that the Canadian petroleum industry is almost in crisis with oil at $90 per barrel? Americans in particular should understand the critical economic issues now facing Canada’s petroleum industry.
United States – Oct 25
Texas senator protects oil company tax breaks by blocking House-Senate energy conference
Saudi Arabia holds key to oil and dollar link
Pace of coal-power boom slackens
Getting more power out of using less
Why Illinois should host DOE’s FutureGen project
United States – Oct 24
Sustainable South Bronx: need for green collar jobs to reduce poverty
Government money short to help poor pay heating bills
Energy traders avoid scrutiny
Montana and Kansas take on Big Coal
US hopes for coal gasification ride on one project
Peak oil – Oct 24
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
This Week in Petroleum
The peak oil crisis: A message from Houston
A keen observer of the American scene pointed out that most literate Americans are aware that we have some sort of energy problem. The problem is that most have no concept as to how soon the transformation will start and how much their lives are going to change.
Peak oil – Oct 23
T. Boone Pickens: we peaked last year, globally (video)
Robert Hirsh interview (transcription)
Houston ASPO Day 2 part 2
Thoughts on Saudi and Hubber Linearization
A terrifying prospect – sooner or later
Daily As-Yet-Unnamed-Set-Of-Links from Austalia/New Zealand
Peak Oil Review – October 22nd, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– ASPO-USA Houston Conference
– Shrinking Stockpiles
– The Kurds and the Pipelines
– Energy Briefs
