Charting the journey home
Report from the Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
Fossil Fuels
Petrocollapse conference headlines
Speeches and reports from the Petrocollapse conference held in NYC Oct 5: Ruppert, Kunstler, Darnell, Lundberg.
Peak oil headlines – Oct 10
Washington DC and Peak Oil /
Peak-oil scenario fuels “go local” campaign in Vermont /
Unraveling the gas ‘conspiracy’ /
International Energy Agency confronts PO /
Philadelphia Church of God on PO /
October ASPO newsletter /
PIMCO: Got energy? /
Oz Greens call for inquiry into oil supply /
Happy birthday M. King Hubbert /
Vancouver: Running on empty /
Big names in Texas PO roundtable /
Syriana: the next oil awareness movie
Other energy headlines – Oct 10
Methamphetamine fuels the West’s oil and gas boom /
In Canada’s wilderness, measuring the cost of oil profits /
Entrepeneurs explore oil alternatives /
Will diesels have a future in Europe? /
Brazil fights oil prices with alcohol /
Fuel cells ‘need political push’
Politics & economics headlines – Oct 10
US energy bill OKd in raucous vote /
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group /
Gas row between China and Japan escalates /
Boom times await new BRIC powers /
Fool shortage? Not in Georgia /
US revs up the China threat /
Chavez interview – has ‘strong oil card’ /
High oil prices met with anger worldwide /
Pombo proposes offshore drilling
Dow Chemical CEO: US should declare national emergency on NG supplies
Testifying before the Senate Energy Commitee, Dow Chemicals CEO Andrew Liveris said, “The short-term outlook for natural gas consumers is grim. If prices remain at or near current levels, manufacturers will be driven out of the market and many may not return.”…
The government should also “declare a national emergency” to shock consumers into awareness of tight supplies, he said.
Depletion
After you discover oil, you can only produce it out of the ground one time… You have depleted the pores of the rocks, emptying them of the oil and gas that were formerly contained within. There is no “inflation” when it comes to the supply of oil. There is only depletion.
Sadad al Husseini sees peak in 2015
While al Husseini’s comments about when peak oil might hit us are more optimistic than those of ASPO-Ireland and a host of others, they certainly strike a vastly more realistic chord than the typical fare from Saudi Aramco press releases and presentations.
Where do you get your energy from? Latest on alternative liquid fuels
Solid roundup that manages to sneak in a mention of oil depletion; worth reading if only for the quote from Tony Radich of the US Dept. Energy, told The Business: “It looks like ethanol is going to be the biggest alternative fuel. We’ve got a long way to go on hydrogen. …”
All’s not well when the oil runs dry
With global oil reserves set to run out within decades, governments must act now to avoid an energy crisis of indescribable proportions.
Politics and Economics Headlines – 3 October, 2005
High time for a single GCC currency / Russian oil producers to freeze gasoline prices until year-end / Fueled again / Rupiah ills and oil costs eat into Indofood profits / Was Jimmy Carter right? / Being President in an Age of Limits
Peak Oil Headines – 2 October, 2005
Heinberg and Staniford / The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett’s Conference / Triple J Radio Australia covers peak oil / Jack Zagar on Saudi oil production and peak / A Nice Counterexample [of Hubbert Linearization] / Organizing Ecological Revolution / Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drives it back into steam age / The Five Minute Guide: Oil
