Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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…
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
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.
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?
What if the US invaded Iraq, not to assure access to its oil reserves, but to keep the oil off the market?
Bakhtiari: After ‘peak oil’, ‘peak gas’ too /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango) /
Isaac Asimov on his discovery of peak oil at age 13 /
Online lectures from Stanford’s “End of Oil?” series
While peak oil is an important turn of the tide, we should not forget that net oil for consumption will peak long before peak oil. Possibly it already has.
A round-up of recent articles.
Interview: Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips (“American Theocracy”) /
CNN’s “We Were Warned”: the bright side /
Jitters about energy, debt and the housing market /
Anarchism and the peak oil argument /
Food, sustainability, and the environmentalists /
Investments based on peak oil? – yes
While it would be difficult to create an airtight legal case for impeaching George W. Bush based on his ignoring the very real threat posed by Peak Oil, nevertheless I believe that his actions—and inaction—in this regard constitute dereliction of duty on an unprecedented scale.
Sen. Lugar: Energy is the albatross of U.S. national security /
Iranian oil exchange unlikely to begin till at least midyear /
Pentagon looks to cut oil use and costs /
Australia: CSIRO warns of local oil shortfall /
Proposed Mackenzie pipeline spurs coal gasification mega-plan /
Trading the Hummer for a Honda
Speech by the British Ambassador to the United States. He concludes: “energy is central to our foreign policy because it is central to national security. Wherever we look, problems are energy driven. The imperative to collaborate may now be as strong as that which forced us to build collective security structures during the Cold War…This is not a problem that can wait ten years.”
