Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the decades ahead, we do not know precisely when, we shall reach a point, a plateau or peak, beyond which we shall be unable further to increase production of conventional oil worldwide. We need to understand that problem now and to begin to prepare for that transition.
The petroleum bomb by George P. Shultz and R. James Woolsey /
Let’s hurry on energy policy or the Right will get there first /
Krauthammer: U.S. not serious about oil independence and pays price /
Republicans drop effort to end ban on offshore drilling /
So Iraq was about the oil
The prospect of peak oil has shaken some of the mainstays of the conservative establishment into doing something about America’s energy crises.
Chávez Restyles Venezuela With ’21st-Century Socialism’ / Even with gas at 4¢ per litre, Venezuelans still complain / Is China to blame for the rise in oil prices? / A Separate Peace- elites resigned? / Friends of the Earth slam World Bank over money for clean energy[2] / Stop oil company price gouging / Frist orders oil price probe / A world becoming more peaceful? / Former UK soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
Two back-to-back events, a documentary on the origins of Al Qaeda (you did want to know, didn’t you?) and the 16th annual Bioneers conference pose questions of how we choose to embrace stories of fear or stories of healing. Is it a matter of framing or can we just change channels already?
Madagascar feeling high energy prices / Japan-China oil dispute escalates / Gas taxes: lesser evil, greater good / Memories of the 70s energy crisis / Oil-rich test for Bush / Hurricanes take oil firms from disaster to windfall / GOP and Big Oil / Roach: Tough flying for the global economy / Who Benefits from Disorder in the Middle East? / IT energy crisis reaching critical mass / Natural-gas prices pinch companies / Hillary and her [energy] fund / Hyperinflation begining in India?
Indonesia – 70,000 textile workers laid off since fuel price hike / India to assist in Iran pipeline construction / Fuel crisis might shut UK industry, admits minister / Behind gold’s glitter / Coin laundry costs spike
The Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary… or to see it as a rival player in the global capitalist system. …after a four-year period in which neither outlook appeared dominant, the pendulum has now swung conspicuously toward the anti-Chinese, prepare-for-war position.
Pat Murphy, provides us with a compelling fictional resolution of the Middle East conflict, and climate change.
It’s a gas gas gas tax /
Oil-rich countries gain political power /
Bolivia orders higher gas production /
Don’t cry for me, Venezuela (Chavez bio) /
Energy costs take a bite out of business /
FedEx may hit the wall /
Families pinched by heating bills
US energy bill OKd in raucous vote /
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group /
Gas row between China and Japan escalates /
Boom times await new BRIC powers /
Fool shortage? Not in Georgia /
US revs up the China threat /
Chavez interview – has ‘strong oil card’ /
High oil prices met with anger worldwide /
Pombo proposes offshore drilling
The militarisation of the United States’s energy policy is distorting the country’s democracy and damaging its standing in the world.
