Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Now it’s time for predictions for 2009. 1. The economy will muddle along. 2. A 2010 recovery will come just in time to collide with more fundamental problems. 3. Oil prices: we’ll spend a few months in the $30s and $40s and then end the year between $60 and $70/barrel.
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Doom Boom
Club of Rome: Crisis gives us an opportunity to rethink strategies
Bill McKibben Interview
Climate equity is in
The Dystopians
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Top 100 Stories of 2008 #1: The Post-Oil Era Begins
Oil Price Over $100, in a Blink
The Cost of the Biofuel Boom: Destroying Indonesia’s Forests
Advice to Pres. Obama: go for wind power, seriously
Open Letter on Biofuels
Crunching Electricity Demand With Smart Grids
EntropyPawsed Solar Electric System
The big unknowns for 2009 are just how far and how fast the world’s GDPs are going to fall and just how fast the demand for oil will fall with them.
Oil price in July 2008 reached a staggering $147 a barrel, having doubled in price over the previous 12 months. Who would have thought, that within half a year, a dramatic oil-price freefall would bring oil to a 5-year low of $35 a barrel – a price drop of 76%.
However, even though many have sighed in relief, experts are heralding new dramatic spikes in oil prices.
Wednesday, Pemex is expected to release historic reduced output numbers. With everything going wrong with Mexico internally, what can the government do about losing revenue from its largest cash cow? Will Mexico continue to be a steady U.S. supplier? By the time it’s all over U.S. troops may be securing what’s left of Mexico’s oil fields.
A prince and four peaks: peak oil, gas, coal and uranium
Forget “peak oil”, West’s demand growth peaking
The twilight of an age (John Michael Greer interview)
ASPO Newsletter – December 2008
Two directors take on oil industry
Court Halts Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah Wilderness
Oil Addiction: Don’t Count on Mexico to Supplant Mid-East Crude
Today the second three-day world future energy summit began in Abu Dhabi. One of the biggest energy conference in the world that is being attended by key policy makers, financiers, leading academics and no less than 400 journalists from all over the world. The conference was opened by the Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands…
Green-collar economy taking root in Chicago
Advice To Pres. Obama (#3): Change you must
Not Advice, But a Warning
