Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Top Inside-the-Beltway Democrats are trying to serve up a two-decades old fiasco again: touting natural gas as the “bridge fuel” for a renewable energy utopia. Fossil Fuels Policy Action looked at this in 1988 and rejected the idea’s environmental and energy-security premise as well as its ethics. Basically, this new “agenda,” as they call it, is the same scam as the late ’80s — it had its way, ran its course, and look where we are now.
-Turkey Plays Both Sides on Gas Pipelines
-Dmitry Medvedev attacks ‘anti-Russian’ Ukraine
-Natural gas, not so sustainable
Although the SW sunshine resource is enormous and largely untapped, critics of solar energy routinely note the sun does not shine all the time. The implication is that power is needed all the time, and since the sun is not always available, solar opponents say it would be foolish to invest in generating electricity from the sun.
-Empty car parks to sprout vegetable plots
-The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
-An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back
-World Oil Exports; US Oil Imports; and a Few Thoughts on Canada
-The International Energy Agency Shills For OPEC, The Oil Speculators and the Peak Oil Pranksters
-Lessons learned from 2008
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– The FTC Rules
– Peak Coal in Appalachia
– Briefs
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
Shell takes to high seas to escape oil gloom
OPEC unlikely to cut oil output in Sept – delegates
The Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline
– High-speed rail plan ‘will progressively replace short-haul flights’
– EU reaches gas deal with Ukraine
-Call for more intervention on energy
Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…
