Bush: U.S. probes possible Iran links to 9/11
Iran is harboring members of al Qaeda, and the United States is investigating whether the Iranian government had a role in the September 11, 2001, attacks, President Bush said Monday.
Fossil Fuels
Employment tips for the post-oil age
The salient features of the post cheap oil world will be turbulence, economic systems failure, and falling standards of living. The greatest imperatives for Americans will be the reconstruction of local communities and economic networks of interdependency and the re-establishment of local agriculture.
Oil drought could be our saviour
Given the gravity, immediacy and potentially all-encompassing implications of Colin Campbell’s projection, there must by an urgent government-initiated debate over the validity of the statistics and the potentially devastating short term economic and political implications of oil peaking in next two or three years.
Thirsty Invaders, Chasing Heat [excerpt]
The impending end-of-life of oil and Boomer Babies is the next big challenge to the Green movement in America.
Regime change in Iran now in Bush’s sights
PRESIDENT George Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he will make regime change in Iran his new target.
An insider speaks out
Matthew Simmons is both the ultimate insider and a challenging iconoclast.
China speeds up building strategic oil reserve base
China is accelerating the pace of constructing a strategic oil reserve base, according to the State Development and Reform Commission.
U.S. Addiction to Foreign Oil Deepens
U.S. domestic oil production has dropped five percent since this year’s peak in February and near-record oil prices are unlikely to inspire drillers to slow the country’s deepening dependence on foreign oil, experts say.
Oil at $41, demand hits 20-year high
OPEC pumping near capacity; price gains triggered by inventory decline, heating oil supply concerns.
Oil giant Shell’s investors shocked
When Shell admitted to misleading investors, down went the share price. And, as Mr Montagnon explained, “most people will have a stake in this, if they’ve got a pension, because Shell is such a large company”.
To save all, we must risk all
A message from the inside. Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, Senior Expert of the Iranian National Oil Company speaks honestly about the coming impact of Peak Oil in his opening statement to May’s Berlin Peak Oil conference.
OPEC agrees to make automatic increase in oil output ceiling
OPEC hopes to put a lid on stubbornly high crude prices by adding a half million barrels a day to its targeted output.
