Oil, wealth & the people – Sep 1
-Brazil moves to boost control over new oil wealth
-Millions more Russians shunted into poverty
-Oil find sparks new hope for Uganda’s people
Oil
CBC Dispatches August 27/30, 2009 (interview, starts 25 minutes into recording)
The end of oil is closer than we thought. An industry expert tells us we’re in for 40 years of bad road.
So we’ll visit the oil-free alternative called “Transition Town”, a community of high-energy people experimenting with a low-energy lifestyle in England.
Peak oil review – Aug 31
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– Droughts in Asia
– Quote of the Week
– Energy Stat of the Week
– Briefs
Peak oil resolution passed in Galicia
I’m happy to communicate that yesterday, 2009/08/27, the city council of the Borough of Teo, in Galicia (NW Spain), passed a resolution acknowledging peak oil. As far as we know it’s the second Spanish local authority in doing so after La Palma in Canary Islands in 2007.
Pakistan, Aghanistan, and Iran – Aug 31
-A strategic blunder in the North-West Frontier Province
-U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
-Tensions Rise in Post-Election Afghanistan
-Is Pakistan’s Taliban movement on the way out?
-Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?
-How Crime Pays for the Taliban
ZPG2: zero population and zero oil growth
One “emerging consensus view”, even among politicians who continue rooting for economic growth if only to claw tax receipts for paying off swollen national debt, is that world oil demand will ceiling if not crater. Peak Oil has won converts, some of them even able to openly admit it is real, but mostly selling oil saving and oil substitution to consumers as part and parcel of the hunting down of the Evil Molecule called CO2.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Aug 28
-Michael C. Lynch and “the false threat of disappearing oil.”
-The New York Times on Peak Oil – Don’t Worry, Be Happy
-Oil: the Long Goodbye
-150 Years of Plenitude: The Story of Oil
ODAC Newsletter – Aug 28
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
The Tropics – A Two Step Transition
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.
Peak oil notes – Aug 27
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Saudis aroused
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Aug 27 – updated Aug 28
-Speaking At Jackson Hole
-Peak Oil: Supply Data Doesn’t Lie
-Peak Oil around 2030 says IEA (updated)
Interview with Tom Whipple
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.
