United Kingdom – Sept 10
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Fossil Fuels
Pipeline explosions – Sept 10
Rebels blow up pipelines in Mexico, disrupting service
Mexico: A nation-state dissolves? (Jeff Vail)
Tribes sabotage Kirkuk pipelines
Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Review: Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
Peak oil crisis: minimum operating levels redux
Sometime in the next few months, some event is likely to set off a spike in gasoline prices. Be it a hurricane, terrorist attack, adverse geopolitical crisis or some credit crisis development, the realization will dawn that we are extremely short of gasoline and have little hope of remedying the situation over the short term.
PetroProzac, Dasani-style
Peak oil is usually thought of as a liquid fuels crisis, but all of the other uses mankind has found for hydrocarbons should not be left out of the equation. As with gasoline, we consume plastic water bottles as if there were no tomorrow.
Loss of Arctic ice leaves experts stunned
Experts say they are “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as the UK disappearing in the last week alone.
Coal – Sept 5
Concerning coal – the cheapest alternative
Plans for new coal plants stalled by growing opposition
Offsets aren’t enough
Mount Stripmine?
Peak Oil and climate change? Blame Cornwall
A letter to President Bush regarding “The Surgeâ€
Dear President Bush,
Now is the time to shift the decision for our dilemma in Iraq to the American people. Allow the American people to choose between 1) a military draft which would be required for a real “Surge to Victory” or 2) a “War on Oil Addiction.”
Peak everything
Introduction to Heinberg’s new book Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. (Excerpts)
Peak oil & economics – Sept 3
U.S. peak oil adaptation: prognosis in a credit crunch
Busted: What the economy and peak oil have to do with each other (Astyk)
Tony Soprano Economics 101
Can the mortgage crisis swallow a town?
Trinidad: Economic risk management and energy security
The dangers of certitude
If forecasts are often futile and shouted warnings often go unheeded, what’s a peak oil concernist to do? Maybe the Yampa River offers us a lesson. Today, river runners always scout Warm Springs Rapid before running it. When they hear the roar of cascade, they row to shore, tie-up, then walk along the bank, examining their options, making plans, and discussing contingencies.
