US: Security focus of Democrat platform draft
The Democratic Party pledges an unrelenting struggle against terrorism and a commitment to seeing Iraq succeed, according to a statement of election principles shaped heavily by national security crises.
Geopolitics & Military
July 2004 ASPO newsletter is online
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas newsletter is, once again, essential reading.
Competing for Energy Resources – Part 1
If China’s economy moved forward to a level that was approximately on par with Mexico’s current economy, the world demand for oil would double.
Iran Reacts to U.S. Power Loss
Tehran finds itself located in a very volatile region of the world, one in which powerful outside interests have as their major foreign policy objective the desire to prevent a Middle Eastern state from gaining too much power.
Bush voices support for an Iraqi martial law declaration
President George W. Bush said Monday that coalition forces in Iraq would support a possible decision by the new Iraqi leadership to declare martial law to deal with escalating violence and terror attacks.
Kazakhstan wants stake in oil field
Kazakhstan is determined to take a stake in the country’s Kashagan oil field, signaling that there might be further turmoil in the development of the world’s largest oil find in more than three decades, according to the country’s top energy official.
Why should the United States care who is the President of Venezuela?
Peak Oil, petrodollars and the US interest in Venezuala
“Let’s accelerate and stay ahead of oil’s peak”
Let me introduce you to a kook. In 1956, when U.S. oil wells were spouting like so many Old Faithfuls, a geophysicist named Marion King Hubbert thought he was the prophet Teiresias.
Billions of revenue from oil ‘missing’
A Christian charity has accused the coalition authority in Iraq of failing to account for up to $20bn (nearly £11bn) of oil revenues which should have been spent on relief and reconstruction projects.
George W. and the Fossil Fuel Posse
The story of the energy industry’s dollar-fueled ascent to the White House is full of drama, both high and low.
The Undeclared Oil War
While some debate whether the war in Iraq was or was not “about oil,” another war, this one involving little but oil, has broken out between two of the world’s most powerful nations.
US: Deadly dependence on Mideast oil
Sadly, we will pay a steep price for having frittered away the years, even the decades since the oil shocks of the 1970s.
