Coal – May 31
Lawmakers push for big subsidies for coal process
Energy efficiency vs. liquefied coal
Fossil Fuels
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.
Going West in China
I glanced out of my office window into the grey smog covering Chongqing, a city of 30 million people and have some thoughts to add on the expansion of this economy.
Producers – May 30
Middle East makes inroads into Alberta oil patch
Deals signed on Malacca Strait pipeline
Pickens eyes $70 mln for Clean Energy IPO
APEC to study impact of state-owned oil companies
Is the story of Iraq’s ‘massive untapped oil reserves’ fact or fictions?
Huge gas reserves found in southwest China
Peak oil – May 30
CNN special: We were warned: Out of oil
ODAC News
Sharon Astyk: Feels like I’m dying
peak oil in 600 words or less
Preparing for Powerdown
This isnt just an oil peak- it is an all-time energy peak for humanity. Solutions are to be found by creating small-scale, local communities, and each community needs to work towards self-reliance in food, energy and essential trades and services.
Peak Oil – May 29
Kunstler: We Want Solutions!
Oil Prices; Blowin in the Wind
Limits To Growth?
Oil more expensive than it appears
Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down
Britain’s future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up.
Oil industry – May 28
Big Oil’s billion-dollar juggling act
Gusher of job openings expected in oil industry
NZ past peak but may still have ’10b barrels of oil’
