Peak oil – Apr 1
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
Fossil Fuels
Other energy – Mar 31
Americans at “tipping point” about energy – poll /
Yankelovich on tipping points in “Foreign Affairs” /
Whipple: Gas prices rising! /
Bulls from the sea: ancient oil industries
Peak oil – Mar 30
Canadian tar sands: the good, the bad and the ugly /
Orion interviews with Kunstler /
Global Public Media: Jan Bosak, Ray Anderson, Simmons, Ireland and PO /
La Fin Du Petrole (Oil No More) on Australia TV April 1 /
Recent PO publications in Dutch
Peak oil – Mar 29
The global oil disaster scenario /
Global Public Media: Savinar, Maori Party, Bartlett, Cooke, Wright, more /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango)
Carbon: too much, not too little
Suppose that availabilty of oil is going to decline to levels far below those of today. The question is, so what? The US has enough easily accessible coal to supply hundreds of years of consumption at current rates, and the same is true of the rest of the world.
NYT: Bush’s $28 billion giveaway to oil companies
Recent executive decisions, and smart use by oil companies in lawsuits of ambiguous wording of the applicable laws, threaten to leave up to two thirds of Gulf of Mexico gas production paying no taxes, at a loss to taxpayers of $28 billion, according to the New York Times.
Other energy – Mar 28
Cracking oil is not a funny business /
Clean-coal effort off to slow start /
UK wind power ‘ahead of predictions’ /
On the ethanol bandwagon: big names and big risks
Smoke & Monetary Policy
On Tuesday I had a conversation with a few Senior Executives in the Department of the Interior about how to solve the Peak Oil problem–and we all came to the same conclusion: there is a structural block to the solution to this problem…
What markets are telling us about future energy prices
Until very recently the expectations on long term price of oil were extraordinarily stable – at around 20$/bl. Thexe expectations have changed remarkably quickly during the past 2 years
The Department of Defense meets peak oil
If the peak oil crisis comes upon us quickly, the Department of Defense could turn out to be the one organization with the appropriate project management skills and contracting expertise to tackle the consequences of peak oil on a timely basis.
Saudi Arabia: the sands run out
Last month’s foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil installation demonstrated yet again the world’s extreme vulnerability to any check on oil supplies. But what if the Saudi oilfields are running lower on untapped supplies than the kingdom, and the West, have estimated?
Iraq’s oil and the Saudi welfare state
What if the US invaded Iraq, not to assure access to its oil reserves, but to keep the oil off the market?
