Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Results of a KPMG survey, which polled 553 financial executives from oil and gas companies in April 2007. “These executives are deeply concerned about declining oil reserves, a
situation they see as irreversible and worsening,” said Bill Kimble of KPMG LLP.
Beating the oil curse: Mexico could learn from Brazil
U.S. slashes forecast for Mexican oil output
Iraq oil law in limbo
Kucinich on the Iraq oil law: It’s all about oil
China and USA in new Cold War over Africa’s oil riches
Petrol to hit £1 a litre within week in UK
Poll: Gas costs hurt, but many adjust
TOD readers on oil companies & gas prices
Wis. gas station shuts pumps over prices
House passes gas profiteering bill, but misses target
Oil exec calls on Americans to cut demand
LA Times: Don’t blame oil companies, blame us
MarketWatch: There’s more to it
Ending India’s energy drought
Iran’s decision to raise gas prices exposes economic vulnerability
Zimbabwe: Back to the dark ages
Australia: NG rises as generators run dry
Discovery/Shock model
Film review: What a Way to Go – Life at the end of empire
Yet More Fun With Numbers: $7/Gallon Gasoline
ODAC News – May 23
Dangerously low inventories make spot shortages and sudden, large price increases real possibilities. As they gas up their cars, Americans gripe about the costs and look for scapegoats… the days of happy motoring are gone.
Richard Heinberg on high fuel prices
Poll: Prices must go way higher to alter driving
NYT: Graphs of gas prices
Gas price spike longest on record
TOD: Saudi Arabia and gas prices
Oil industry says biofuel push may hurt at pump
Gouging bill stripped down
At NASA, we frequently have to step back and retreat to the last recognizable common ground on technical issues. If we hope to expand the dialogue about Peak Oil, …we must begin the discussion at the least common denominator — the bare facts on which everyone can agree.
TOD: Here we go again
Impact of rising gas prices ‘fairly limited’, economists say
API conference call on gas prices
MoveOn: Are you feeling gouged?
House passes gasoline gouging bill
The size of our gasoline stockpile has become an important number, not only for everyone who drives, but also for the future of our economy… If stockpiles – on either coast – drop much more, we are going to find out, the hard way, exactly where the minimal operating level is, for that will be the day the shortages develop.
Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate
Peak Oil- films to wake the sleeping
International Energy Outlook of the EIA/DOE is released
Man-in-the-street reporter bumps into “Peak Oil Man”
Canada’s tar sands: America’s energy security blanket
Ottawa denies possible buyout of Mackenzie Valley pipeline
Trinidad and Tobago plans for oil revenues: Clean water, clean hands
