Letter to Airmen – energy update
As a part of our nation’s defense, we should consider what we need to be available in the event of an interruption in energy supplies, and to push technologies that reduce our energy demand.
Geopolitics & Military
The week peak oil went mainstream – July 15
Former UK Times Editor: Are these the last days of the Oil Age?
China booms- we pay the price
Kenneth S. Deffeyes: Sunset
Australian senator: Blood for oil
If you’re in a hole, merge. But is it too late for BP and Shell?
Chris Skrewbowski on the dramatic shortage of new LNG mega projects
Geopolitics of oil – July 11
Lubricating an oily path to the Middle East
The world has two energy crises but no real answers
Iran’s oil industry: a house of cards?
Geopolitics – July 8
The rising and falling power of hydrocarbon states
Developing nations lock up more resources
Britain slashes reliance on Mideast oil
Australia increasingly dependent on ME oil
Nelson: Oil a factor in Australia's Iraq deployment
The Howard Government has today admitted that securing oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq.
Imaginary countries
July 4th’s civic rituals across America celebrate the triumph of pragmatic politics in a very different age. Do the events of 1776 have a lesson for us on the edge of peak oil?
Honest John?
Australian PM John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson have finally decided to adopt the realist position on the Iraq war and admit that it is about controlling the oil.
Leaving the morality of the situation aside, the debate should now focus on a full cost benefit analysis of whether the price we will pay for this exercise in militant mercantilism is actually worth it.
Update: Apparently Johnny is now saying that oil has nothing to do with it after all.
Gas subsidies and Iran
Subsidizing gasoline prices — wherever or however it occurs — amounts to throwing away a precious, finite resource with no regard for the consequences that will surely follow. Events in Iran now illustrate the foolishness of this kind of behavior. Can we take home the right lesson from Iran’s experience?
Oil producers – July 4
North Sea is running too dry to meet target
Iraq oil legislation advances
Iran, low on gasoline, to be supplied by Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil nationalization tests Chinese oil companies
Oil-rich Nigeria short on fuel
Geopolitics – July 3
Scotlands friends in the north
Gasoline Rationing Finally Comes to Iran
Oil Boom, Politics Shape Africa’s Future
Computers, web, media – July 3
Wikipedia- biggest encyclopaedia ever written
DOD develops a parallel Earth: war games on the grandest scale
Murdoch takes on Manhattan- and the Financial Times
Oil producers – June 30
Venezuelan oil
Exeunt Exxon and Conoco
Big oil and big media v. Hugo Chavez
Mexico’s Calderon sees oil exports falling
Official U.S. report on Iraq oil legislation
