Geopolitics – Sept 20
Big oil’s waiting game over Iraq’s reserves
After Iraq, no one should bank on cheap oil
Greenspan: Euro gains as reserve choice
Interview with Chris Cook, inventor of the Iran oil bourse
Fossil Fuels
Living on the edge: OPEC spare capacity
These high prices are exactly what you would expect if the world is closing in on the peak of world oil production. Consumers would be well-advised to change their behavior before events do it for them.
Peak oil – Sept 19
World Energy Council predicts oil peak in 10-20 years
Transcript of James Schlesinger interview
ASPO conference – 2nd morning, 1st afternoon
Economic impact of peak oil (1): a flashback
New Queensland Sustainability Minister on the future with less oil
Solving Fermi’s Paradox
In the context of current debates about how to maintain the onward march of technological progress, it may be worth revisiting a logical paradox half a century old that casts doubt on whether unlimited technological progress is possible at all.
Peak oil – Sept 18
Irish energy minister says oil rationing “common sense”
Oil to reach $100 a barrel ‘next year’
ASPO conference – first morning
Australian journalist on politics & PO
Elite learn about energy realities
Movie review: Energy Crossroads
Export declines in the era of waning oil abundance
As the era of oil abundance starts to wane, geopolitical relations between consuming countries and producing countries will grow increasingly important. Consumer countries are going to be forced to pursue substitutes and alternative ways of living. Paramount for them is the speed and manner with which their imports will decline.
Peak Oil Review – September 17th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Recession
– Mexico
– In the Congress
– Energy Briefs
Peak oil – Sept 17
Interview at ASPO with James Schlesinger: “We are all peakists now”
An unlikely Paul Revere (Lee Raymond of Exxon)
Feb. Hirsch report on recent PO forecasts
Peak energy discussion panel
Peak oil on Hong Kong radio
Stanford prof:
The truth about reservoirs, drilling and cheap oil
Tar sands, oil shale – Sept 17
Experts debate oil shale’s future
Water for oil shale could complicate things
How Canada went from 21st to 2nd in world’s oil reserves
Tar sands: the oil junkie’s last fix
Alberta: The Saudi-Arabia of the North?
“The 11th Hour” and Generation Z
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Petroleos de Venezuela to convert accounts away from dollars
Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link
Iraq oil reality vs the NY Times
Wesley Clark: The next war
Shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to Germany
Engdahl and peak oil
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
