Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Newsweek’s cover declares that we shall have ”Cheap Oil Forever”. As I began to read the article I was struck by the thought, ”I have heard this before” and a memory of the cover of the Economist from March 1999 with the headline, ”Drowning in Oil” forced its way into my consciousness.
Australia: The good oil is that stocks are already running thin
Funds try to spot the great oil rebound
Just a ‘FRAC’ away
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-Off-shore drilling
-EPA
-Briefs
“We face the dawn of the Second Half of the Age of Oil when supply declines from natural depletion, meaning that debt goes bad (as is already happening) and the economy contracts. Today’s oil supply support 6.7 billion people, but by 2050 the supply will be enough to support no more than about 2.5 billion in their present way of life. So the challenges of using less and finding other energy sources is great.”
1) Don’t invest in something that could become a stranded asset 2) Focus on strategies that reduce emissions and oil constraints 3) Have the highest energy productivity 4) Keep radical options open
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Fort Collins Clean Energy Conference hosts RFK Jr., Shell Oil physicist
The 2009 EIA energy conference: day 2
Total, the ‘peak oil’ believer’s favourite IOC
Dave Cohen: Real GDP and the oil shock of 2007-08
Total energy executive on the end of oil: ‘We have to save, save, save’
Article Review: Depletion and the Future Availability of Petroleum Resources
The Upside of Piracy
The ‘Peak’ Summit: An Informal ASPO & Oil Drum Gathering (June in Italy)
A weekly update including:
– Prices and production
– Bankruptcy
– Total SA Executive speaks out in Der Spiegel interview
There is more to the sustainability problem than just renewable energy, transportation and food – and that is our infrastructure. Large agglomerations of people living under reasonable conditions in the 21st simply cannot continue in a healthy, sustainable state without clean water, sewage, electricity, communications, a source of warmth and a transportation network to move life-sustaining supplies about.
“Planet Forward”: PBS’s viewer-driven program on getting away from fossil fuels – this Wednesday
Monbiot: We spend millions on smallpox, but nothing on this far greater threat (PO)
Has OECD oil consumption peaked?
Green ink: Big Oil, small cars and beach bars
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
– Production and prices
– IEA’s Forecast for 2009
– Investment during the recession
– Briefs
