Secty of State: “We have to do something about the energy problem”
Nothing has really taken me aback more as secretary of State than the way that the politics of energy is — I will use the word warping — diplomacy around the world.
Geopolitics & Military
Other energy – Apr 8
Project Energy on WCCO-TV /
The great game of global gas /
U.S. senators unveil plan to rein in big oil, OPEC /
Opec toothless to tame high oil prices : UAE /
US Energy secretary: oil prices to impact economy /
Chinese influence in Brazil worries US (ethanol) /
Iran: the next neocon target
James Woolsey, hemp advocate
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
Energy modeler speaks to U.S. Senate
A Stanford study estimated that the odds of a foreign oil disruption happening over the next 10 years are about 80 percent. As a general rule, strategies that reduce our dependence on oil consumption are more effective than policies that reduce our imports.
Peak oil – Mar 29
The global oil disaster scenario /
Global Public Media: Savinar, Maori Party, Bartlett, Cooke, Wright, more /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango)
Politics & economics – Mar 28
China lifts price of domestic oil products /
Follow the chopsticks /
Chat With Chomsky (remark on oil and Iraq war) /
Vague law and hard lobbying add up to billions for big oil /
UK-Aussi forum looks to energy, India and China
Other energy – Mar 25
Sweden plans wood-fueled future /
Europe eyes Brazillian sugar to fuel its cars /
Shell shocked: People of the Niger Delta fight back /
Iraqi oil: ‘Invasion has backfired’ /
Reheating the Cold War (Energy, Russia and the West) /
Africa must look to its own oil needs /
Running out of natural gas in North America
Iraq’s oil and the Saudi welfare state
What if the US invaded Iraq, not to assure access to its oil reserves, but to keep the oil off the market?
Energy: a burning issue for foreign policy
Speech by the British Ambassador to the United States. He concludes: “energy is central to our foreign policy because it is central to national security. Wherever we look, problems are energy driven. The imperative to collaborate may now be as strong as that which forced us to build collective security structures during the Cold War…This is not a problem that can wait ten years.”
Peak Oil – Mar 20
Review: CNN: “We Were Warned: Tomorrow’s Oil Crisis” / The End Of Civilization? / Malaysian Leader: Era of Cheap Oil Is Over / Energy conservation moving up Pentagon’s agenda / Cantarell Peaks – Peak Oil is Now Official / Opec warns of Russian oil export slowdown / Aerotropolis: Peak Oil report crucial before planning approval
Politics & economics – Mar 17
Chomsky: Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington’s grip /
Kevin Phillips’ new book on the influence of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money on the US /
A Glimpse of our geopolitical future — The East and South China Seas /
US postwar Iraq strategy a mess, Blair was told /
Both Reds and Blues go green on energy
Pentagon To Unveil Energy Conservation Effort
The Pentagon will shortly unveil a militarywide program aimed at conserving energy that is expected to address what President George W. Bush termed America’s “addiction to oil” during his State of the Union address in January.
