The Peak Oil Crisis: China at a Turning Point
This spring, I spent three weeks traveling around China and needless to say I, along with every other visitor, was impressed by the economic progress the Chinese have made.
Oil
Beyond petroleum? – headlines
•Big Oil’s Big Lies About Alternative •Peak Oil and the New Carbon Boom •Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012? •Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions
Oil, climate change, and bubbles – headlines
•Shale gas won’t stop peak oil, but could create an economic crisis •Oil giants could feel major pain should world get serious about reducing global temperatures •Why you should be cautious about the next oil boom forecast that you hear •Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin •Climate experts weigh in on flood in the heart of oil country
Transportation Readings for American Conservatives – How did we get in such a Mess?
The best place to start is with the development of the railroad industry, where misguided progressivism, corruption and statist mentalities almost totally destroyed what should be considered a crown jewel of the American free enterprise system.
Former Soviet Union crude oil exports declined by 5.5 % in last 2 years
Russia is at its 2nd and last oil peak. The easy oil is gone. The FSU export peak comes ahead of the production peak.
Towards a Post-Oil Civilization: Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil – REPORT
Environmental justice organisations and networks (ERA, Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch) put forward the proposal to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
Peak oil – June 11
•Rising energy prices will challenge western way of life – MoD report •Dangerous Times As Energy Sources Get Costlier To Extract •Peak oil: preparing for the extinction of ‘petroleum man’ •Greenwashing the Tar Sands, Part 3: Wherein money trumps fact every time
Peak oil notes – June 6
A mid-week update…Oil prices rebounded this week with Brent climbing above $104 after trading below $100 on Monday…
Peak Oil Review – June 3
A weekly review including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, OPEC, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
Drilling Faster Just To Stay Still: A Proposal To Use ‘Production Per Unit Effort’ (PPUE) As An Indicator Of Peak Oil
Within the fields of harvest and fisheries management catch per unit effort (CPUE) is one method that is used to determine the health of a biological resource. The underlying assumption is that as a population declines it becomes harder to catch and therefore CPUE decreases.
Difficult Truths about ‘Difficult Oil’
As we work down the hydrocarbon pyramid, energy gets messier and much more costly. Latest in a series.
Half of oil burnable in 2000-2050 to keep us within 2 degrees warming has been used up as we hit 400 ppm
We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these complex processes pop up every now and then.
