United States & Canada – June 2
Copenhagen: Slipping past a tipping point
Free carbon emissions permits could create added costs
Canada: petro-state or rich nation?
Oil economy driving growth of controversial tar sands
Oil
Oil & the economy – June 2
Impact of Rising Global Demand on the U.S. Recovery
Kevin Drum on the coming volatility in oil prices
The recession: First, there was expensive oil
Jeff Rubin Talks about Oil and the Economy
Peak oil & supplies – June 2
The latest peak oil projection: a stunning difference (Aleklett vs IEA)
Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures
Energy shock and oil myths (Rubin and Tertzakian)
ExxonMobil’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (CCR) – & peak oil?
Global Storage Constraints Limit Oil Stockpiling
A K-5 Curriculum for Students in the Post-Carbon Era
Will education be important in the post-carbon era? What will need to be taught? What skills need to be acquired? We hope to provide one alternative for educating students, after the fall of empire.
Deep thought – June 1
The context of ‘low product”: how designers can help articulate a new social language
The Oil Drum BookCollage – #1 of 3 (Energy, Ecology, Sustainability, Etc.)
‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Borderline bankruptcy: A Bioregional alternative?
Media & persuasion – June 1
Peak oil sf novel by R.C. Wilson
Post peak oil rock: Antioquia
Review: Stuffed!
Peak oil review – June 1
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The rebound
-Brazil
-Briefs
Prices & supplies – May 31
IEA output forecasts are ‘outside reality’: Aleklett
Exxon Mobil CEO tells shareholders that fossil fuels have long future
Western world is faced with the crude reality of rising oil prices
Blogger Conference Call with Robert Ryan, VP of Global Exploration, Chevron
Hypocritical modelers
Exxon and its fossil fuel partners in the denial lobby seem to like models well enough when they use them for their own purposes; but through their hired mouthpieces they decry the use of models for climate change forecasting.
Obama tackles the liquid fuels problem
Today I’ll try to explain President Obama’s policy for decreasing oil consumption in the United States. Right now the administration has so many balls in the air that it is impossible to make a definite statement about what the effects of their initiatives will be, but a coherent policy is emerging if you gather all the pieces together.
ODAC Newsletter – May 29
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Review of RAND study, Imported Oil and US National Security (May, 2009)
RAND Corporation has brought its considerable expertise to bear on the national security implications of US oil import dependence…While this study examines this issue solely from an American perspective, many of its observations are applicable to other import-dependent nations. Although there is much of value in this report, I wish to challenge its central recommendation on how government should deal with price spikes and physical shortages.
