United States – Sept 25
Oil is up, and this time the dollar is down
Iraq oil deal gets everybody’s attention
Naomi Klein debates Alan Greenspan
What would William Appleman Williams say now?
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil Review – September 24th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– ASPO-6 last week; ASPO-Houston next month (Oct 17-20)
– Production and Prices
– The Dollar Falls
– Energy Briefs
Declining net oil exports–a temporary decline or a long term trend?
The current decline in world net oil exports is probably the start of a long term trend, as a result of declining production and/or increasing consumption in key exporting countries.
Peak oil – Sept 24
Economic impact of peak oil #2
Analysts wince as Mexico’s oil supply dwindles
ODAC News
Peak oil made me do it
PO could be a blessing in disguise for Sri Lanka
Peak oil and the Fermi Paradox
Peak oil data – Sept 23
Snapshot from the EIA Monthly Review
Forecasts and EIA oil production numbers
Canada energy round-up
Tidbits from the WEC report
Peak oil – Sept 23
FSN: Richard Heinberg interview
Matt Simons: Meeting the challenge
In praise of ASPO 6
ASPO conference – final afternoon
$100 oil anyone?
The button to hit is ‘Start,’ not ‘Panic’
Coal to Oil: Same system, nothing new
Starting now, the Chinese government will support going into CTL projects full throttle, country-wide. It must do so to reduce oil import dependency and give itself a source of fuel oil or feedstock for products we manufacture everyday.
Agriculture in a post-oil economy
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
Peak oil – Sept 20
Senior oilman Gareth Roberts on peak oil
T. Boone Pickens declines to predict oil prices
Kurt Cobb: The trouble with predictions
NPC presents “Hard Truth” study to California Energy Commission
Energy and nation – Sept 20
Interview: Top Iraq oilman Thamir Ghadhban
The vision of Venezuela’s National Oil Company
Energy CEOs call for Canadian national policy
Coal industry asks Washington for handouts
The fuel merchants of Zimbabwe (smuggling)
The peak oil crisis: Virginia’s energy plan
From the peak oil perspective, the major flaw in Virginia’s new energy plan is the timing which speaks of goals in decades when the real problems may be months away.
Energy industry – Sept 20
Shell exec: Coherent energy policy needed
Oil industry flares $40 billion a year in gas
Chevron offers online energy game
