Fossil Fuels

Geopolitics – Sept 11

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US and UK mercenaries in covert operations in Somalia

‘Resource nationalism’ is squeezing oil users

Gas Pressure destabilising Yushchenko

Japan nervous over Russia’s Sakhalin lawsuit

Peak oil – Sept 9

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(Updated)
Rift widens between producers, consumers

Armageddon on the couch – PeakOilBlues

Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle

Byron King on the Gulf of Mexico discovery
Oil supply and demand recent trends
Cornucopians – a guide for the perplexed

About the Oil Depletion Protocol

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The next few years may offer humankind its last, best opportunity to avert resource wars, terrorism, and economic collapse as it enters the second half of the Age of Oil. If we grasp that opportunity and succeed, we could set a precedent for cooperative, peaceful approaches to all of the resource problems we are likely to encounter during the coming century. The choice we face is between competition and conflict on one hand, and voluntary moderation and mutual assistance on the other. The first steps toward the latter can be readily taken by endorsing and adopting this simple agreement.

Briefing for the Descent

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Arguments for a survivalist response to Peak Oil are becoming common, but depend on improbable scenarios of sudden collapse. In the face of the century or more of decline that forms the most likely future for the industrial world, other responses — outlined in this essay — offer a more realistic plan for dealing with the transition to a deindustrial world.