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The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
During the last couple of weeks there were a number of new developments that may, in the long run, turn out to be more detrimental to our future well-being than we have yet perceived.
Thanks to the Reforma and Cantarell field discoveries, Mexico’s oil production grew dramatically, starting from the mid-1970s and running right up to its peak production in 2004. But Cantarell, Mexico’s largest field, is in decline. Part one of this 4-part series covers the background.
New peak oil vid 1: “Crude Impact”
He made money, now he’s making movies (about PO)
New peak oil vid 2: “Oil, Smoke and Mirrors” (online)
Peak Oil vs. The Pied Piper of Ethanol
Peak Oil: US Democracy Under Threat?
Audio: Albert Bates & Peak Oil
Audio: Peak Oil and Permaculture
Video: Councilor Debbie Cook about ASPO-USA Boston
The story of the summer of 2006 was one of hiatus, of collapse postponed – of the party prolonged.
In a surprise move, Russia’s OAO Gazprom announced on Oct. 9 that it will develop giant Shtokman (Shtokmanovskoye) natural gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea without foreign partners and will pipe the gas to Europe rather than convert it to LNG for North American markets as had been planned.
Raymond James: even the Saudis may be close to hitting peak production
Ruppert: The bumpy plateau – Markets react to peak oil
Minister: Peak oil and global warming
64 squares and a grain of sand
Peak Oil: Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
Crude Assumptions – The State of the Peak Oil Debate
Headlines, we have headlines
Oil prices manipulated for elections? Bush says yes
Conspiracy Theories abound as oil prices fluctuate
Bush’s approval rating and the price of gas
Goldman Sachs index was factor in gas price drop
Gas Pump Politics
The California Legislature must revise the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to include a specific section on energy, including project energy needs by resource type.
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Chief engineer at BP unit in Siberia is slain
Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’
Russian giant sweeps into US towns with a $35mn campaign
Environment cop puts the screws to Shell’s Sakhalin
Gazprom starts to build pipelines connecting Russia and China
