Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Even the most hard-hitting questioners in the Congressional grilling of oil execs failed to pin the execs down on the real issue. Namely, how to convince an oil industry that is running up against absolute supply limits to switch gears and invest resources in the “clean energy revolution.” Calif. Rep. Jerry McNerney was the only one to utter the words “peak oil.”
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
WSJ: Saudi desert’s gas mirage?
Greenland thaw may replace dog sleds with oil drills
Natural gas rush in Pennsylvania
China faces diesel, gasoline shortages
Ice shrink in Arctic sea may attract oil firms
Antarctic ice shelf collapses
Land deal could open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil
White House sets long view on oil
Make oil a public utility
Into the economic abyss
Truckers ‘going broke’ and threatening to strike
‘You’re working for gas now’
Oil firms ‘in liquidation,’ says Simmons
Yergin and Hubbert on same side in ’79
Jamais Cascio: Peak oil vs. global warming
Krassimir Petrov talk: Fundamentals of PO
The slide in Mexico continues
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Truckers slowing down to save fuel
Tyre prices to be indexed against oil: Michelin
Ancient use of rafts to transport goods demonstrated
Reducing your carbon footprint from travel
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
James Hansen on climate change, science censorship and peak oil
Joseph Kennedy: We need a new bargain with Big Oil
Slump moves from Wall St. to Main St.
Climate-friendly Republican – ex-Congressman Boehlert
US `wide open’ to crippling power blackout
The American Conservative: Oil for war
Obama eyes active role in oil markets
Power plant carbon emissions zoom in 07
Oil conservation the only answer
Reserves don’t matter as much as the cost of getting the oil out the ground
Why Exxon won’t produce more
High oil prices make some Africans richer, others poorer
How would oil prices look in Euros?
