Peak oil in the media – Nov 27
Radio Netherlands: The Age of Petroleum draws to a close (Michael Klare)
Matt Simmons on NPR
TIME business columnist: Maybe those peak oil people weren’t crazy after all
ODAC News
Media & Communications
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
Peak oil in the media: better coverage – Nov 26
Coverage improves in quality and quantity:
TIME Magazine
Houston Chronicle
UK Telegraph
UK Sunday Mirror
The Star (Canada)
Peak banana
Perhaps the public would be better served if all those who are now under orders to use euphemisms when referring to peak oil were to follow Alfred Kahn’s lead and use the word “banana” in their place.
The peak oil crisis: Wall Street comes to reality
The Wall Street Journal’s story marks an important turning point in the public’s understanding of peak oil.
The approaching holiday shopping spree as the U.S. economy declines
US media economists are more eager to prop up a failing economy than to help us prepare for the ongoing deterioration and its multiple consequences.
Peak oil in the media – Nov 21
Houston Chronicle: Crude crunch coming
This week in petroleum
Motley Fool’s new energy blog
Mid-month oil reality check (contango rising)
TOD’s Energy and Environment Round-Up
Taking a break
Energy Bulletin will be taking a Thanksgiving break.
Postings are expected to be sparse until Sunday November 25.
Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)
When you are at the peak of the biggest party ever thrown in history, the fossil-fuel party, who worries about the hangover?
Energy industries – Nov 17
Quest for dialogue drove Shell Oil tour
Oil sands forecast cut as costs increase 50%
Coal demand expected to rise through 2030
The familiarity of an idea
Cloth toilet paper and peak oil… There are some ideas you run into once and immediately say “Why didn’t I think of that” and implement it in your own life, but there are many other things where the first time you confront an idea, you can’t do much more than file it away as a weird factoid. Without context and familiarity, it is just too hard and too strange.
