Nations & resources – June 30
Iraq: Warily Moving Ahead on Oil Contracts
The Dirty War Against Clean Coal
A Flower Grows in West Africa
Oil
Disaster Transitionism
If you haven’t read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, you really should. It’s an examination of how the Chicago School of Economics and its adherents have taken advantage of or created crises to further their privatization agendas.
Prices & supplies – June 29
The Coming Mystery Of The Missing Barrels Of Oil
Oil: What price can America afford?
European gas war looms as Ukraine seeks cash to pay Gazprom for July deliveries
Web & media – June 29th
It’s not a Twitter revolution in Iran
Hyperlocal Journalism Business Model
Fibber McGee, Molly, and Your Energy Future
Peak oil review – June 29
A weekly review including:
– Production & Prices
– In the Congress
– Briefs
Commentary: Interview with Charles T. Maxwell (Part 2 of 2)
“We’re not going to have to help the oil industry. They already have all the help they need. I wouldn’t take away what they have but I wouldn’t add to it.”(Charlie Maxwell is the life-long oil industry analyst viewed by Barrons’ magazine as their energy guru.)
How to Boil a Frog free goodie release
New interviews, articles, links at our sister site, “How to Boil a Frog. Frogmaster Jon Cooksey is preparing for the release of the eponymous movie How to Boil A Frog.
The slope of dysfunction
Perhaps you have heard of the Peak Oil theory? Most people have by now, even the people whose job used to involve denying the possibility that global crude oil production would peak any time soon. Now that everybody seems a bit more comfortable with the idea, perhaps it is time to reexamine it. Is the scenario Peak Oil theoreticians paint indeed realistic, or is it firmly grounded in wishful thinking?
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – June 26
Which Matters Most? The Size of the Tap or the Tank?
Peak oil: myth or reality?
German-language “Global Oil Briefing No.5” now online
ODAC Newsletter – June 26
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Transition – June 26
Transition movement vs post-carbonistas
The Transition Initiative: changing the scale of change, from The Orion magazine
Transition Hohenwald: Rural Community Targets Energy Efficiency
The peak oil crisis: Stifling a rebound
Three months ago the collective wisdom of investors concluded that the recession was nearly over. This resulted in one of the faster rebounds the stock markets have ever known — based on the flimsiest of evidence and much wishful thinking.
