Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
After being forced into bankruptcy by peak oil, reports claim that General Motors rose from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix, but in reality, it is only an illusion, which has bamboozled both the press and the public.
Marshall Adkins is the Houston-based Managing Director of Energy Research for Raymond James & Associates, a full-service investment firm. ASPO-USA’s Steve Andrews caught up with him last week to follow up on his pivotal May 4, 2009 “Energy Stat of the Week”–Peak Oil in the Rearview Mirror: Why We Think Global Oil Production Peaked Over a Year Ago.”
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Demand, production, and prices
-South Asia
-China’s Growth
-Briefs
Nigerian Peace Remains Elusive After Oil Region Truce
Obama Visits Africa’s ‘Oil Gulf’
West Africa: Another Stab at the ‘Resource Curse’
Asking “wouldn’t it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?” Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate world after reading the book Your Money or Your Life.
A weekly review from a UK perspective
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there as a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday…
Bakken Oil; bonanza or hype?
The End of the Age of Oil: Will It Be a Soft or Hard Landing?
Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?: The (Re)Making of a Petro-State
Introducing The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Policy
The Bill
Big Oil/Lundberg Survey Scare Tactics Against Climate Legislation
UK announces long-term carbon reduction strategy
Climate change: Green dreams
Energy bill rises to tackle climate change are tiny
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Nabucco pipeline
Real People, Real Preparation, Part One
In Public Housing, Talking Up the Recycling Bin
High-rises on hold: What to do with empty lots?
