Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans
As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. The lesson to be learned from these two Communist states is change or die. [Former Washington Post columnist von Hoffman jumps on the peak oil bandwagon.]
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
IF WE ARE reaching the Peak Oil phase of the Age of Oil, perhaps it is useful to return to its origins to understand how it all began. What brought mankind to the point where we now find ourselves? It is not overstating the case to say that John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co. invented the Age of Oil as we know it.
Life in a Post-Carbon World /
The more precious commodity in 2050: Water or oil? /
CorpWatch: Bye Bye Petroleum /
The Politics of Dancing (Peak Oil in music) /
Michael Ruppert in exile: A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
Making Santa Monica a sustainable city in the face of peak oil and global warming /
CERA study disputes peak-oil arguments /
The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide /
Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities /
Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
What created the modern petroleum industry was a confluence of circumstances, and certainly of events. Col. Drake’s innovation in driving a hole into the earth was just one of many things along a long chain of events.
POR caught up with Chris Skrebowski for a quick Q&A just as he was preparing to depart for the airport, bound for Australia. He had time to provide quick observations about OPEC’s production trends and CERA’s new report.
If the proposal is passed, Finland would follow in the footsteps of Sweden – the first country in the world to establish guidelines for replacing oil as a main energy source.
IEA leaves 06 world oil demand outlook unchanged at 84.8M B/D / The life of an oil reservoir / Oil’s dirty laundry (state oil companies) / BP nearly halving diameter of Prudhoe Bay pipeline? / Revised plan fails to lift clouds over Prudhoe Bay or BP
ASPO 5 – The two distinct paradigms within the peak oil movement /
Saudi oil production revisited /
Kuwait’s reserves queried again / Oil price spike to end, you can bet on it / Pipeline cowboys: rustling for oil
