Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Change in oil dollar denomination unlikely – oil companies
Air Force energy initiatives focus on fuel
DOW chairman: Strength needs energy
3-vol report on strategic unconventional fuels
Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?
For years, Jeffrey J. Brown has been arguing that oil-exporting countries will be consuming more oil, leaving less oil to export. Now a mainstream economist has picked up the idea:
Jeff Rubin and the Export Land Model
Declining net oil exports- temporary decline or long term trend?
America’s top oil suppliers tightening taps on exports
OPEC’s growing call on itself
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality reductions found after population-wide weight loss during 1989-2000 Cuban economic crisis. [Since Cuba is an example of what peak oil might look like, this study provides hints at the effects of peak oil on public health.]
We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening.
Russia’s geology in dire straits
Begins to feel the heat on inefficiency
To raise oil exports by 50,000 bpd in Q4
Forging energy dialog with China
Says it will invest more oil wealth in its economy
Recasting Big Oil’s battered image
Tough new rule may stop wells flaring in BC
Review: Stupid to the Last Drop (Alberta tar sands)
In their recent 400+ page report, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) projects that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will contribute an enormous increment of total global supply of petroleum liquids. By any reasonable analysis, NPC’s projection of EOR production rates is unachievable.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Falling Dollar
– Venezuela
– Energy Briefs
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
Private industry conference finds much less oil
The end of Las Vegas: why alternative energy sources won’t save us
Kunstler:
America’s new religion
Burma protesters defy crackdown
Economic factors behind the Myanmar protests
Myanmar’s painful oil and gas price rise
Q&A: Life in Burma
Report on the ASPO 06 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Speakers at the September conference indicate that we may have reached the psychological tipping point – when Peak Oil enters the general consciousness.
