How we can learn to stop worrying and love high oil prices
If there is a glimmer of light in this petroleum gloom, it’s the potential for high oil prices to spur individual and collective initiatives to reduce the nation’s immense thirst for oil.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil headlines – Nov 6
Bill McKibben seeks a friendlier option for the post-peak future /
Coming to grips with the end of cheap energy /
PO activism in Minneapolis /
Vermont independence convention /
Tom Whipple on importing energy after PO /
French environment minister publishes PO book /
La vie après le pétrole /
Dry Dipstick launches “Beyond Peak” website /
What Shell and BP say about energy supply /
The empty promise of technology /
PO group in Virginia /
Prof. Albert Bartlett on PO
Peak freaks: a report on three PO gatherings
Chatting with Komanoff I quickly realized that these were the kinds of pragmatic but forward-thinking conversations and policy ideas that were missing from both conferences. Both conferences seemed intent on paralyzing their audiences into inaction by suggesting that all they could really do is wait. Wait for the Petrocollapse or wait for Amory Lovins’ 66 mpg SUV’s.
Peak Oil Headlines – 4 November, 2005
‘Energy Project’ Resolution in US Congress / Pipeline mercantilism / ‘Sharon Stone dazzles at Italian energy conference’ / The specter haunting Alaska / Would you rather drive or eat? / Grist interviews Matthew Simmons
Time magazine finally covers peak oil
Round-up of peak oil coverage in the mainstream press.
Simmons and Kunstler speak in Dallas
The state of the world’s oil supply is rapidly declining, and the world economy is not ready for the backlash, according to two speakers at a lecture presented by the SMU Environmental Science Program and the Greater Dallas Planning Council.
US foreign policy, petroleum and the Middle East
The US elite are getting serious about energy, as shown in this Senate testimony by Robert Ebel, energy expert for CSIS, an influential think tank.
Politics and Economics Headlines – 3 November, 2005
Chávez Restyles Venezuela With ’21st-Century Socialism’ / Even with gas at 4¢ per litre, Venezuelans still complain / Is China to blame for the rise in oil prices? / A Separate Peace- elites resigned? / Friends of the Earth slam World Bank over money for clean energy[2] / Stop oil company price gouging / Frist orders oil price probe / A world becoming more peaceful? / Former UK soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
Coalescence
Summary of patently pro-coal report that makes strong arguments as to why coal is here to stay and what it could look like in years to come.
Other Energy Headlines – 1 November 2005
Russian, Chinese firms battle for oil in Kazakhstan / The roots of the Japanese oil victory in Libya / Western energy majors have been leaving Syria / Chinese oil consumption growth drops 14% Jan-Sept05
CNBC hosts ‘Deep Oil vs. Peak Oil’ debate
Craig R. Smith co-author of WND Books’ “Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil,” will go head-to-head with author Matthew R. Simmons in a debate entitled “Deep Oil vs. Peak Oil” on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this morning at 9 a.m. Eastern. [updated – mp3 and transcript now available]
Other Energy Headlines – 29 October, 2005
Brazil to reach oil self-sufficiency next year / US Deepwater Reserves in decline / GE stops supply of LNG compressors to Iran / Efficient energy at sea: The new age of sail / US Air Force nation’s leading ‘green power’ user / Upscale French wine turned into ethanol
