Oil

The Tropics – A Two Step Transition

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As someone who has spent the past quarter of his life in the lower latitudes, the fancy footwork and the tropical rhythms still present a bit of a challenge on the dance floor. All the same, when I see my peak oil-aware brethren struggling to define and implement the best way to achieve a lower carbon future, I feel a bit of confidence that in this corner of the world, we are a couple of steps ahead of our temperate climate cousins. At times the contrasts are striking, at times comic.

Interview with Tom Whipple

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Tom Whipple, retired CIA analyst and editor of the ASPO-USA newsletter, will be a speaker at the ASPO-USA conference this October 11-13. From his home just outside Washington D.C. in Virginia, the amount of information that Tom single-handedly has gathered and circulated about the unfolding peak oil story is extraordinary.

Comment/Learsy hearsay or what’s wrong with Raymond Learsy’s “forthright comments” on oil

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It is probable, or at least possible Learsy himself takes seriously what he claims as facts in this “trenchant” piece. Basically he asserts the IEA or International Energy Agency has been taken over by dark forces which inject the world’s media, and politicians heads with dangerous, or at least wrongheaded propaganda to drive up oil prices.

Cyber-Attack Strategy: Part of Russian Attack on Georgian Pipelines, Report Finds

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John Bumgarner, a former cyber-security expert for the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, is attracting much attention for his report concluding that Russia’s military offensive in Georgia last year was coordinated with a pre-arranged civilian cyber-attack on the country. What appears to have gone unreported is Bumgarner’s conclusion that the region’s oil apparatus was a strategic target of the overall conventional-and-cyber offensive.