Peak oil – Apr 26
Candidate for governor of Maine runs on peak oil platform /
Kunstler: we’re past denial, now we’re bargaining /
Peak oil and peak gold /
The Oil Drum vs The Economist /
Updating oil price graphs
Fossil Fuels
Russia and fuel supplies
Gazprom and EU: An uneasy alliance /
Transneft says oil to Europe should be cut /
Gazprom owns up to gas shortfall /
European gas supplies and a more than gentle cough from Russia
National energy conversation getting louder
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and consultant Robert Hirsch spoke at a Pentagon-sponsored presentation, “Energy: a Conversation about Our National Addiction” April 24. Bartlett’s message is logical and moral: Don’t try to fulfill rising demand to cope with peak oil via supply solutions because this would mean “more greenhouse gases” and increasing our future vulnerability to a greater supply crunch. Hirsch’s “most optimistic case is an assumed crash program” when people can agree the crisis is finally here.
Clinton on peak oil and global warming
“We may be at a point of peak oil production. You may see $100 a barrel oil in the next two or three years.”
Peak oil – Apr 23
Missing DOE report on peak oil and oil shale reappears /
Simmons: global energy war could happen over oil /
The “Hot” War: in business at the front line /
Are commodity prices threatening energy investments? /
Peak tires
U.S. oil prices and policy – Apr 23
What’s up with oil, gasoline prices? /
CBS: Making sense of the oil mess /
Profits, not crude oil prices or ethanol are driving pump price spike /
Proposed windfall profits tax would finance alternatives and efficiency
Other energy – Apr 23
Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future /
Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could cut oil imports /
Energy news from Australia /
Gulf production: plenty of repairs still to go /
Qatar to boost oil output, plans investment abroad
Petrol prices signal the need to prepare for change
The question of when oil production will peak (some analysts even say it has) is a highly uncertain one, but it can no longer be safely assumed that there is plenty more, at an affordable price. Australia must urgently assess the full extent of its oil vulnerability, across all industries and sectors. [Important editorial from one of Australia’s most influential newspapers]
Newsday editorial on peak oil
Brace for $100-a-barrel oil – and the sacrifices required to put in place a national policy for energy alternatives. The world is nowhere near running out of oil soon. But there is a general agreement that it’s close to reaching peak oil production.
BP’s chief scientist on the energy future
The world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of two in the next 40-50 years. At the same time, there will be an increase in demand in energy by a factor of two. All together, our energy intensity has to go down by a factor of four.
Will Iran tighten the reins on the global petro supply?
The outcomes of the UN’s deadline for Iran are considered by Peter Tertzakian, author of “A Thousand Barrels a Second.”
Why the world is not about to run out of oil
Is the world really starting to run out of oil? And would hitting a global peak of production necessarily spell economic ruin? Both questions are arguable. (Excerpts).
