Grim – Jan 9
New Year’s dissolution: Surrender vs giving up
The Shell Game: page-turner on peak oil, 9/11
Dvorksy: The Amish and collapse fetishism
The emotional scientist & melting models
Geopolitics & Military
Peak oil – Jan 8
US News & World Report spotlights The Oil Drum
Richard Heinberg radio interview
Al Jazeera on peak oil: ice-skating in the desert
The Star on Post Carbon Toronto
ASPO-Australia call for petrol rationing
Howstuffworks improves peak oil coverage
Peak oil and the Australian army
Yergin: $100 oil ‘tells a lot of what’s going on in the world’
Peak oil – Jan 4
Vaitheeswaran vs Hirsch
Resource wars? A debate
Guardian on peak oil
Saudi Arabia: An attempt to link oil discoveries, proven reserves and production data
Transport – Jan 2
Kite powered ships
Slow down, you drive too fast – got to make the oil last
Air Force to fly on synthetic fuel?
Amtrak sees ridership rise
Vermont passes up state-of-art trains
United States – Dec 28
Hilary: Elect me and oil prices instantly drop
The fuel fixers: bribery ok?
Means’ empty gesture still makes point
California hobbled on auto emissions
Russia – Dec 28
Russia signs deal for Caspian gas pipeline
Russia’s big energy secret: can barely meet own demand
Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan sign Caspian pipeline accord
The Pipeline War: As the CondiBoys bicker, Putin laps the West again
Oil producers – Dec 28
The Oil and the Glory: slick account of geopolitics in Central Asia
Chavez oil diplomacy gains ground
Chavez announces “a new geopolitics of oil”
Running just to stand still (Mexico’s Pemex)
Russia – Dec 20
TIME Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin
How long will Siberia’s gas last?
Europe refiners look to Russia as N.Sea oil fades
Bankers see grim outlook for Russian oil
Russia’s future: the Gazprom-KGB state
United States – Dec 19
Newt Gingrich: Red staters must turn green
Green gains momentum on military bases
A very green year
Former coal exec tapped for DOE seat
Former Calif EPA Director calls for tobacco-like lawsuits against petroleum giants
Climate showdown at Bali – Dec 13
TIME: Is America the villain?
US told to ‘wake up’ over climate change
Bitter divisions at climate talks
EU uses Bush’s climate summit as leverage
Russia: note to presidential candidates
U.S. policy on Russia currently amounts to this: “You hurt my feelings.” It would be better to focus on issues, and the main one is energy, the foundation of Russian — and Putin’s — power.
Geopolitics – Dec 4
Behind Chavez’s defeat in Venezuela
The limits of 21st-century revolutions
Hugo – neither satan nor saviour
