Peak Oil Review – June 4, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil: A detailed and transparent analysis
Peter Jackson of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) says that peak oil proponents “have not made available a transparent and detailed analysis that would allow an objective and rational discussion.” This article directly addresses those perceived shortcomings.
Energy security – Chile
Argentina’s need for natural gas has resulted in supply shortages in Chile. Chile’s investments in its natural gas infrastructure will force it to search for other sources of natural gas, domestic or foreign.
Oil Industry – June 3
API blogger conference call on hurricane preparedness
GAO: US gives oil firms good deals
U.S. refineries are unable to meet surge in demand
Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms
Exxon Mobil could get an earful
Peak Oil – Jun 3
Peak oil debate in oil industry journal
No More Gushers for ExxonMobil
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
Denial II – Why we deny our Energy Condition
Peak Oil on EurActiv
Climate – June 3
China to confront climate change, defend growth
Self-interest will do more to cut carbon emissions than all the low-energy light bulbs in the world
Bush’s trade barriers to climate success
Emissions plan hurts households, but not big polluters in Australia plan
Hero or villain? A carbon critic relies on coal
Nature: No more hot air
Andrew Revkin: Global meltdown
A few good (oil) men
It is quite possible that if gas pains increase we will see Big Oil CEO’s dragged into the Senate to answer the same inane questions. One can only hope it will play out as it did in the movie A Few Good Men.
Coal – May 31
Lawmakers push for big subsidies for coal process
Energy efficiency vs. liquefied coal
Gas prices – May 31
Price-fixing: A numbers game that’s hard to win
Record gas prices amidst hyperconsumption and slaughter
Playing politics at the pump
On the likelihood of peak oil
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) claims that the oil supply will continue to grow as it has in the past. Those studying the peak oil hypothesis, so-called peakists, are not so confident that the future will resemble the past. Peakists believe that CERA is ignoring the warning signs of peak oil.
Gas prices – May 30
Holidaymakers forced to take slow boat
Nobody wants to pay the price of going green
Pump prices hit home more in Kentucky
Gasoline to cause severe financial problems
Energy wisdom is knowing that you do not know
The great Victorian economist, Stanley Jevons, published an exhaustive study of the coal industry in 1865.
