Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Is the American Century over? When the impact of Peak Oil really hits, how will we deal with it? Will we cooperate with the rest of the world in sharing scarce resources, or will we rely on our status as the only Superpower to try to bully the world? And if the latter, would we survive?
Oil for delivery in 5 years rises on supply concern /
E Magazine special issue on Peak Oil /
World Watch Magazine special issue on Peak Oil /
Conservatives: America must end its dependence on oil /
Liberals: Securing our energy future /
Malta: oil end game
Kuwait, long regarded as home to some of the world’s largest reserves of petroleum, may possess only half the amount of oil reserves that it officially has been stating for many years.
Kuwait: Oil reserves ‘report is not accurate’ /
Lester Brown’s book covers “Beyond the Oil Peak” /
Daily Kos on the countdown to 100$ oil – long term vs short term worries /
Deffeyes speech /
Paul Mobbs: Energy Beyond Oil /
Kunstler: Two peckerheads /
Peak Oil event with Heinberg in Ukiah, CA
Russian natural gas supplies to neighboring Georgia and Armenia were halted early Sunday after two explosions ripped through a gas pipeline linking Russia and Georgia, forcing the two affected countries to look for alternative sources of energy.
The proposed Iranian oil bourse is of very little economic consequence.
OPEC producer Kuwait’s oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
…”One major challenge in maintaining, let alone increasing, oil production capacity was Iraq’s battle with water cut, especially in the south,” said the EIA report referring to the excess effluent water produced with each barrel of crude.
Long (10,000 word) and frank article adapted from the book, “Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis”. Makes the problem case well, views will differ on his optimistic take on potential of renewables.
UK MEP demands EU statement on ‘peak oil’ /
Independent: bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out /
BBC on energy depletion, alternative fuels & food security /
Canada’s former Governor General on peak oil /
Kunstler’s backroad trip
Support for a carbon tax and emmissions trading, from a surprising corner.
The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire.
