Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
To further raise the awareness among Syriana audiences that oil supply disruptions are coming and that preparations urgently need to begin locally, Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org) is mobilizing volunteers around the country to distribute catchy flyers to moviegoers before and after the film.
Professor Kjell Aleklett, President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas addresses the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US Congress, including a statement on Peak Oil from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Automobile manufacturers awake to Peak Oil
/ Rimini Conference
/ BP Forecast of Oil Price
/ Saudi Reserves
/ Country Re-Assessment – Syria
/ Kuwait Confession
/ Voices of Sense in Washington
/ More confusion from the International Energy Agency / and much more…
Peak Oil and Climate Change are two historic events for humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and survive.
Lawmakers: US should prepare for global oil flow peak (Bartlett at hearing) /
Lundberg: Reflections on Amtrak peak-oil tour /
Book review: “The Final Energy Crisis” /
UPI analysis: Future of oil /
Deffeyes criticizes media /
“End of Suburbia” video now on-line
Peak Oil and the Philosophers Stone (psychology of PO /
Australia broadcast on the “Real oil crisis” /
NZ Green Fitzsimons: Surely the time is now? /
Kunstler: Uncharted territory /
Peoria teachers examine PO /
Monbiot: The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis /
Peak Oil hits the hill /
Ruppert vs Corsi on PO and abiotic oil [canceled]
The planned increases and start-up of Strategic Petroleum Reserves worldwide will be a significant source of demand for oil over at least the next several years – in the range of at least (conservatively) 300,000 barrels per day and possibly (probably) significantly higher, to 1,000,000 bpd (or even higher).
The peak of world oil production, in itself, could be a non-event. It is not so much the peak of production that we should be concerned with as the decline of production following the peak.
Perhaps the world’s first local action plan intentionally designing a way down the oil peak is now available online. It should provide great inspiration for other local Peak Oil initiatives. [updated]
Why oil shale is unlikely to become a major supplier of liquid fuels.
A peak oil presentation November 29 at Stanford University filled an auditorium to overflowing, with an estimated audience of more than 600.
The era of easy oil is over. What that means for car companies, policy makers, investors, consumers and the future of U.S.-China relations, however, is far from clear. The International Herald Tribune gathered a round table of experts in the board room of The New York Times on Nov. 15 to discuss these ponderables, along with Ford Expeditions, prairie dogs and the odd possibility that gas may, in fact, be too cheap.
