Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil will peak. I get it…I am convinced that this thing we call civilization is ludicrously based on profit and is a madman’s interpretation of the pursuit of happiness. I recognize the insanity. The illusion that participating in the race for stainless steel appliances and ride-on lawn mowers as a worthy endeavor is squashed forever.
So now what?
Cheap oil not here to stay: Ex-Talisman CEO
Ukrainian Natural Gas Crisis Drags On
Russia Proposes Energy Summit in Moscow to Resolve Gas Dispute
Embracing Petrocollapse
A New Kind of Big Science
Seven Grams CO2 per Google Search? Not True or Relevant, but Fun To Repeat
Road Worriers
Choosing What Our Cities Will Look Like in a World Without Oil
Toward a New American Infrastructure
Tim Parsons, director of Public Affairs, discussed the “peak oil” theory, or the point at which the maximum production rate for the world’s oil is reached, with Brian Schwartz, MD, professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences and co-director of the School’s Program on Global Sustainability and Health. Once the peak is passed, oil production is expected to decline continuously. …Schwartz explains how future demand for energy could impact on our society and our health.
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices continute to slip
– OPEC keeps trying
Riki Ott’s book Not One Drop is a history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, told from the perspective of those most affected by it. Cutting through the cloak of willful deception, public relations campaigns and skewed, corporate-sponsored science, it finally exposes the truth about Exxon Valdez‘s devastating effects on the city of Cordova, Alaska, the fishing community where the spill struck.
Today Post Carbon Institute announced an agreement with EnergyBulletin.net to formally adopt the site as a core Institute program.
Kissinger: The Chance for a New World Order
Steven Chu Eases Up on the Gas Price Pedal
Greening the stimulus
Abstract: It is sometimes held that U.S. motivations in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, while indeed “largely about oil” (in the well-publicized words of Alan Greenspan), are not (or at least not much) “about access” to the region’s oil per se. This essay critically examines that claim, arguing that the current U.S. resort to force cannot really be understood without regard to the current precariousness of U.S. energy supplies.
Slight majority Of U.S. energy CFOs disagree that world has reached peak oil
60 Minutes on oil: did anyone verify anything?
What 60 Minutes missed on oil speculation
Jim Rogers sees oil at US$200 as world is running out of reserves
A visit to Shell’s Perdido Project in the Gulf of Mexico. The spar itself is about the same height as the Eiffel Tower. But even this $3 billion, state-of-the-art, deepwater project can’t begin to replace the declining “giants” like Cantarell, a few hundred miles to the south.
