Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Impacts of financial downturn on energy project lending (video & transcript)
OPEC moves up emergency meeting as oil prices plummet
In global crisis, oil insulates Gulf
Drill-baby-drill, meet $75 oil
China’s Shrewd Long-Term Oil Plan: What America Can Learn
Heinberg: Food Crisis on the Way
U.K.’s Rising Food Prices Hamper Economic Policy
Selling the good earth in China
A mid week update.
Taken together, the developments of the last few months indicate that despite the steep decline in gasoline prices, the effects of the peaking of world oil production will still be with us. So far the recession we are entering has not been enough to actually reduce worldwide demand for oil, but the drop in oil prices and the overall economic situation is hurting investment in future oil production products.
Chris Nelder’s Notes on 2008 ASPO-USA Conference
Simmons: The only way is down
Energy prices drive inflation to 16-year high
Farmer in Chief
Record numbers of people are looking for food
Marijuana cartels polluting California
Heinberg: The magic market
Worthwhile videos + ASPO conference DVDs
From the subprime crisis to the financial meltdown, peak oil the hidden responsible
April 2007 forecast – the connection between PO and the collapse of the monetary system
Fusion will be cracked “within 30 years”
Credit Crisis Meet Power Crisis
Montana Refining nixes $500 million expansion
The load that has now overturned is the finance world’s wagon with virtual money. … When they put the wagon back onto its wheels again new oil will be needed to get it moving. Compared with earlier crashes the volume of new oil will be limited and new, clever energy solutions will be needed. It is time to plan for a future after Peak Oil.
Iraqi government fuels ‘war for oil’ theories by putting reserves up for biggest ever sale
Venezuela to survive crisis despite oil fall
Abu Dhabi: ‘We need slaves to build monuments’
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Oil and the crash
– OPEC
– Bidding for Iraqi oil
– Investment in oil production
– Briefs
Public interest in the role of federal incentives in shaping today’s energy marketplace and future energy options has risen sharply. That interest has met with frustration in some quarters and half-truths in others because of the difficulty in developing a complete picture of the incentives that influence today’s energy options. The difficulty arises from the many forms of incentives, the variety of ways in which they are funded, managed, and monitored, and changes in the agencies responsible for administering them.
