Saudi King Fahd admitted to hospital
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz has been admitted to hospital for medical examinations, the royal palace said in a statement carried by the official news agency SPA.
Fossil Fuels
Washington Monthly discovers Peak Oil
…the idea of a world production peak is no longer the province of a small band of “peak oil” cranks. It’s gone mainstream.
Peak Oil: The Movie!
FOX owned cable channel FX looks set to deal with the events of a sudden catastrophic loss of oil imports due to a shipping disaster.
When the wells run dry
We use more oil than we find, and if producers are fixing their figures the end could be closer than thought
Gas Pains: Summer fuel prices a portent of the crisis that’s here
Heinberg and others who subscribe to the peak oil theory… believe that once the peak is crossed, the supply of oil will be outstripped by demand, and our petroleum-based industrial civilization, with no other plentiful cheap energy source readily at hand, will inevitably collapse. The only question is how hard the fall will be.
Communicating Peak Oil – The Cost of Energy
The Cost of Energy is a new grassroots energy education web site from American Lou Grinzo that is outlining the issues (and the jargon!) in an approachable question and answer format. We asked Lou to outline his starting assumptions and provide some background on the project and himself.
The pipeline that will change the world
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way – and it finally opens today
What will we eat as the oil runs out? [update]
A major international conference on “Food Security in an Energy-Scarce World” is planned for June 23-25 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will seek to answer the question: “How can the world’s population be fed without the extensive use of fossil fuels in the production, processing and distribution of food?” [The impressive list of participants is now available.]
Peak Oil Planning – A Graphic Essay
An idea mapping in PowerPoint for the proposed Vancouver Peak Oil Planning Symposium. Theme: crafting local responses to global oil and gas depletion through design, policy, and culture. [Flash version now available 5/25]
Oil: Caveat empty
Without any press conferences, grand announcements, or hyperbolic advertising campaigns, the Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the world’s largest publicly owned petroleum companies, has quietly joined the ranks of those who are predicting an impending plateau in non-OPEC oil production. Their report, The Outlook for Energy: A 2030 View, forecasts a peak in just five years.
Fuel prices reflect the inevitable decline in the world’s oil and gas reserves – Australian Dep.PM
Mr Anderson says the world could reach peak production of oil and gas far sooner than predicted because of the rapid increase in energy demands in China. “We are using stored energy left over from ages gone by at an alarming rate and it isn’t re-making,” he said.
Goodbye American Dreamland
A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America is just ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as we grapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Rather than as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in the knowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our real homelands.
In my long career of concern over oil pollution — from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply — I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. [Report on conversation between Lundberg and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett]
