Kicking the Big-Car Habit
The experts are calling for energy reforms. Why aren’t the politicians?
Fossil Fuels
Winning the oil endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence, and is applicable worldwide. There are many analyses of the oil problem; This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution — one led by business for profit.
Arguments erupt over petroleum capacity
THE spike in oil prices in recent months is stoking heated arguments between market players, who blame each other for the lack of production capacity that has been exposed by strong global demand.
China to set up company to build oil reserve infrastructure
China plans to establish a company that will raise as much as 100 billion yuan (12 billion dollars) to build the country’s strategic oil reserve infrastructure, state media reported.
Blair’s missing the point on financing renewables: fossil volatility costs more
Renewable and low-carbon energy are not just the long-term solutions to climate change. They are indispensable today if we are to cushion the British economy against volatile oil and gas prices and the impending peak in world oil production – not least the dwindling reserves in the North Sea.
Demographic oil demand and peak oil
Since about 1999 per capita world average oil consumption is increasing. This recovery, after a long decline through about 1980-2000, has strong implications for potential oil demand, and potential annual growth of world oil demand as we enter the period immediately preceding ‘Peak Oil’.
West Africa, a big exporter to the U.S., demonstrates the ‘paradox of plenty’
While sought-after commodities like oil can generate immense revenues for an exporting nation, they can also end up inflicting great damage on its economy and political culture.
Crude dudes
Ties together the cash-rich oil multinationals, US VP Cheney’s Energy Task Force, and the drive to privatise Middle East oil reserves via a war for ‘freedom and democracy’.
Thoughts on the Oil Bubble
No matter when that peak occurs, though, the indisputable fact is that a few generations of humans—particularly we Americans—will have squandered a geological resource that took several hundred million years to accumulate.
India steps up quest for energy supplies
High prices are unlikely to erode India’s booming demand for oil and the country has stepped up negotiations with producer nations to secure its energy supplies, said oil minister Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Exxon calls for off-limits oil to sate demand
Oil producers’ struggle to keep up with rampant global demand growth will only be won with access to oilfields now off-limits, Exxon Mobil chief executive Lee Raymond said yesterday.
Time to pump cash in, not out
IF THEY sound worried, it is because they are desperate. The multinational oil companies are rolling in cash but they have little to spend it on.
