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Happy Birthday Peak Oil! Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of M. King Hubbert’s Seminal Speech, the Hubbert Tribute site has released a 1976 video clip of Hubbert speaking about world oil depletion and explaining the concept of peak oil.
Until last week, a good guess would have been that shortages in oil available for export would impact us first. This would be followed by economic decline, peak oil production, and finally a meaningful reduction in the burning of fossil fuel in response to global warming. News from the last few weeks, however, makes it look like more of a horse race.
Chinese Premier vows targets must be met
Chinese Academy of Sciences on energy sources
Guardian: Giving up oil
Standard inertia from US Energy Department
Renewable energy fight likely to set EU summit mood
Has there ever been a financial collapse with brighter or louder warning signals?
Exxon Mobil is planning to implement twenty new projects over the next three years, which are expected to produce a total of 1 million bpd.
Technical background from an oil geologist that puts the New York Times article into perspective.
The report’s key recommendation is that Portland take action to reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years. The report finds the best path to this goal is in accelerating current initiatives such as high-density planning and zoning, public transportation and acquiring electricity from renewable resources
Castro’s revenge: The Cuban oil rush
BPs Reserves depleted, except in Russia
Exxon plans 25 new projects in next three years
Russia, pumped
Share stampede as Siberian reserves confirmed
Chávez’s oil largesse winning fans abroad
Why Iraq’s new oil law won’t last
What would peace in the Middle East mean for the oil price?
There’s change in the air at Drax
Industry closes anti-coal website
Sasol cools on South African imposts
Gujarat power plants may triple coal imports
Dethroning King Coal
The Pentagon runs on oil. Since the so-called Global War on Terror has started more than half of US military oil consumption has been occurring outside continental US.
Appalling (“Last man standing” has failed)
Jay Hanson essay “Thermo/gene collision: On human nature, energy, and collapse”
Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering
Metal thieves steal kids’ slides, toilet roof in Japan
