United States – Sept 20
Palin’s Petropolitics
Speth: Progressive Fusion
A crisis that could make the US election a cleaner contest
Oil
Peak oil – Sept 19
Nate Hagens: No naked short selling => No short selling at all => No future energy?
China, climate change and US dollars (and peak oil)
Cantarell – Mexico’s own double-whammy huracán
Librarian’s guide to peak oil
Controversal path to possible glut of natural gas
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 19
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Deep Thought – Sept 19
Practice Losing Farther, Losing Faster: Everyday History in a Crashing Economy
Following the credit crisis futurologist Richard Watson predicts the future trends
The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets And The Limits Of Statistics
Launch of Wikia Green
Interesting times and oil prices
A good deal of the recent short term weakness in oil prices has been due to forced selling of energy holdings, which can only continue for so long, until fundamentals reassert themselves, and I expect that an accelerating net export decline will outpace the decline in demand, resulting in higher oil prices.
America’s Achilles Heel: A Tale of Two Gulfs
Americans may have a vulnerable Achilles heel made up of two gulfs: the Gulf of Mexico and the Persian Gulf .
This paper will look at how hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and a selection of other world events in the Persian Gulf, could turn off the oil spigot and bring the USA to a critical standstill, highlighting the urgency for the development of a different civilization, free of addiction to massive doses of oil.
United States & Canada – Sept 18
Save the Environment: Drill, Baby, Drill
Seeking credit for renewable energy
A climate for change
Tar sands & oil sands – Sept 18
Investors press for disclosure of tar sands’ climate risk
Environmentalists target oil sands investors
Weak oil and debt markets may bedevil oil sands plans
Peak Oil Notes – Sept 18
A mid week update including:
– Numerous crises
– Nigeria
Peak oil – Sept 18
Heinberg: Don’t panic; prepare!
John Michael Greer interview
CNBC documentary Sept 24 “The Hunt for Black Gold”
The next big disruption: peak oil (CRM)
Where are Libya’s oil exports headed?
New documentary on PO and suburbia: “Sprawling From Grace”
Peak oil “wrong,” says Schwartz
Energy issues – Sept 18
WSJ special section on energy
Physicists: U.S. could cut oil use with better houses, cars
Physicists to unveil major energy efficiency plan(video)
United Kingdom & Europe- Sept 18
UK report: Energy security ‘more important than climate change’
EU could halt energy demand growth, says study
Cheap thrills: Can you live on a pound a day?
