ODAC Newsletter – Dec 12
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Oil
Peak oil & demand – Dec 12
Leggett: At Poznan, no one is listening
IEA: Everyone Gets to Be Right
Oil Demand Down; 1st Time Since ’83
World oil demand to grow in 2009: IEA
United States – Dec 12
Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA
Economics – Dec 12
Stiglitz: Capitalist fools
Price Trends: Gasoline and CPI Are Twins
The attack of the Invisible Hand
From left field – Dec 11
Bolivian president: Save the planet from capitalism
Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism
Where Are All The Socialists? Here, There and Everywhere
Peak Oil Notes – Dec 11
A midweek update on Peak Oil:
– The markets wait
– The struggle in OPEC
Peak oil – Dec 11
Chris Nelder talks peak oil at the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Dept.
End of oil could worsen warming, study finds
Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough?
Deep thought – Dec 10
Energy, Climate Change, and Complexity in Healthcare
A Resilient Suburbia 4: Accounting for the Value of Decentralization
The Final Garnaut Report; A Radical Critique of its Energy Assumptions
Gleanings from Fatih Birol’s presentation of the WEO 2008 to the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Birol said, “If you read the report carefully, or run a word search on it, you will see that two words occur more frequently than any others. The first word is “oil”. The second word is “if”.” This got a rumbling chuckle from the audience. But no one publicly connected the dots that in order for the IEA’s supply projections to work out, ALL of the non-trivial IFs mentioned in his talk must materialize.
Prices & supplies – Dec 9
Why are gasoline (and oil) prices so low — and where are they headed?
Saudi Aramco on 60 Minutes
Russian oil output to fall after 2020: national energy ministry
Brazil’s new oil reserves still buried in doubts
Contango Pays Most in Decade as Shell Stores Crude
Peak oil – Dec 9
Infrastructure Spending, Peak Oil and the Green New Deal
Strahan: Why is the oil price plunging?
EU energy consensus – trending in the right direction
A Gift to Planet Earth and Humanity
Robert Hirsch and Kyle Saunders (Prof Goose) talks
Peak oil review – Dec 8
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– OPEC and Russia are hurting
– Investment continues to fall
– Detroit in the balance
– Briefs
