Nigeria – Jan 17
65m barrels of crude oil missing
Nigerians groan as fuel scarcity bites harder
Fossil Fuels
The peak oil crisis: Congressional hearings – round #2
The heart of the hearings focused on the idea that 75 percent of the world’s oil reserves are now in the hands of national state-controlled oil companies and this percentage is expected to keep growing.
A post-oil man
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Is energo-fascism in your future?
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
Peak oil – Jan 15
Kunstler: The cheap oil mirage
Managing the transition from peak oil
The URGE
Inflation and building big things
New book: The Battle For Barrels – Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
Peak oil – Jan 14
ASPO’s Steve Andrews speaks in New Mexico
Does the peak oil theory just fall down?
Indirect impacts of peak oil and climate change
Mayor’s climate protection agreement compared to PO resolutions
Deluded
Understanding the delusions under which America’s leaders and media suffer allows us to see why the most obvious solution to America’s predicament in Iraq goes unmentioned, namely, a vast crash program to free America from fossil fuels, especially oil, in favor of renewable, low-carbon sources of energy.
Energy policies – Jan 13
Unified green field theory (talking points)
Big Coal’s dirty move (Rolling Stone)
A new energy policy for Europe
The EU energy plan – and its coverage
Somalia – Jan 11
Destabilizing the Horn: American-backed warlords invade Somalia
What’s at stake in the Horn of Africa
Background: The oil factor in Somalia
U.S. energy – Jan 11
Sen. committee hearing: geopolitics of oil (video)
Oil keeps U.S. vulnerable, lawmakers told
Green gripe with Obama: liquefied coal is still…coal
Alaska energy czar: Bush must look beyond diesel
Review: Mark Jaccard’s Sustainable Fossil Fuels
His “endurance” criterion is flawed in that it focuses on endurance of the energy system, not ecosystems. “…clean energy – whether relying on fossil fuels or some other option – does not ensure a sustainable human presence on earth…”
The rise of “the Axis of Oil”— big trouble for the U.S.
This morning the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources launched its New Year with an unusual hearing into “The Geopolitics of Oil.” There was an almost palpable sense of graveness and alarm that lent a chill to the room.
