Peak Oil Notes – August 21
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and consumption
– Georgia and the BTC pipeline
Geopolitics & Military
Georgia and geopolitics – Aug 21
Steve LeVine: After Georgia, a day of reckoning for Washington
Jerome a Paris: Why is the “West” so bad at strategy?
Kunstler: Reality bites again
Patrick Buchanan: Who started Cold War II?
Russia: There is life after peak oil
Several years ago, at what seemed to be one of the darkest moments of the Russian collapse, I was walking in one of the avenues of Moscow. I noticed a series of large signs hanging from lampposts, showing traditional Russian buildings and landscapes. One of my Russian colleagues translated the text of the signs for me as saying, “Nobody will help Russia, so Russia will have to help herself”. Government propaganda? Sure, but that is what the Russians did. Never underestimate a country that has survived peak oil.
Peak Oil Review – August 18
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Oil from the Caspian
– Chinese Demand
– Briefs
Georgia & geopolitics – Aug 17
Krugman: The Great Illusion
Jad Mouawad of NY Times: US efforts threatened
TOD: Georgia discussion
The bear’s Achilles heel
CSM: Petropolitics at heart of Russia-Georgia clash
Georgia Pipeline is new Strait of Hormuz
Michael Klare interview
The BTC, oil prices and a war in the Caucasus
As crude oil gets more and more precious in upcoming years, strategic geopolitical moves to control a larger share of that oil will become more frequent. Putin has forcefully made his point about who will control the Caucasus.
Georgia conflict – August 15
Klare: Russia and Georgia: all about oil
Russia starts “Lukewarm War” with the West
Conflict narrows oil options for West
ODAC Newsletter – August 15
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Georgia conflict – Aug 13
Shattered Georgia pays high price for peace
A roadblock to Russian oil and gas
Kjell Aleklett: Oil and the war in Georgia
Clash of identities triggered Caucasus crisis
BP shuts Georgia oil, gas pipelines as a precaution
Georgia conflict ‘a threat to strategic energy supplies’
It is largely about oil pipelines
Oil in troubled mountains
Peak Oil Review – August 11
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The BTC pipeline
– Oil and the US elections
– Energy Briefs
The trouble with Georgia
If senseless bloodshed is to be stopped and peace is to be restored to the Caucasus, Western and US leaders will have to activate several additional brain cells, and stop mindlessly repeating the meaningless phrase “Georgia’s territorial integrity.”
Russia-Georgia conflict
Georgia and Russia nearing all-out war
Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility
Energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict
A lesson on the United States’ need for Russia
