Energy producers – Nov 6
The Battle for Pemex: a Mexican Oil Worker Explains Energy Reform
Myanmar’s farmers pay for China’s oil thirst
Opening Up Mexico’s Oil to Foreigners: A First Step
Geopolitics & Military
United States & Canada – Nov 5
The Next President
A Date With Scarcity
Canada an environmental slouch, study says
A proposal for transition to a sustainable economy
The following is proposed as a preliminary plan for discussion amongst all those who are willing to acknowledge the reality of our predicament, think beyond the paradigm of the current system, and rationally discuss the fundamental reforms required to avoid catastrophe.
Geopolitics – Nov 4
World faces growing risk of conflict: US intelligence chief
How we fuel Africa’s bloodiest war
China seeks oil for arms in Latin America
United States – Nov 1
Karbuz: Can the U.S. military move to renewable fuels?
Pickens’ grassroots energy push may get mowed
A last push to deregulate
Drivers stick with fuel-saving habits
As gas prices go down, driving goes up
Peak oil, prices & supplies- Oct 31
TNK-BP CEO says Russia oil output likely peaked
IEA’s Tanaka: ‘The Low Energy Price Age Is Over’
Sleepless in Tehran
Geopolitics – Oct. 30
Iraq loses $20-30 billion over global financial crisis
Index Research on Pakistan, October 2008
We will defend territory against attack, vows Syria
Energy industry – Oct 27
Will sun set again on area oil industry?
The future glows bright for gas hydrates
Warzone where oil prospects outweigh risks
Why does fungibility matter (and where did it go)?
Our ability to substitute with alternative sources of energy is a factor of how fungible energy really is–how easily we can bring alternative B to replace lost supply of energy A. This article discusses how the real world tends to intrude on fungibility of our various sources of energy and what this matters.
Geopolitics – Oct 26
Michael Klare and the geopolitics of resource consumption
Rivals split on U.S. power, but ideas defy labels
Pakistan rejects ‘America’s war’ on extremists
Dawn of the new energy order
T. Boone Pickens has challenged the U.S. presidential candidates to come up with a detailed energy plan. This speech offers them the outline of a response to that challenge…
A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism
2008 is the year of a triple shock: the global food crisis (which made the realities of food-insecurity palpable), the global oil-price rise (which put localised transition on the agenda as never before) and the global financial hurricane (which gave the state as agent a new lease of political life). The long-term consequences can at present be only dimly discerned. [Discussion of leftism and localization]
