Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
ASPO-USA’s 4th annual conference will highlight a year of increased attention to the Peak Oil energy challenge and highlight intelligent responses to meet the future. Conference participants besides Simmons, Rubin and Mathews are Jim Buckee (former CEO, Talisman Energy) and Neil King (Wall Street Journal).
We talked here quite a bit recently about what we might do to make money after our new normal begins to emerge, and John Michael Greer, whose new book _The Long Descent_ was one of the best books I’ve read this year, has offered his own take on the future job market. I agree with nearly everything he says – nearly everything. And churlish as it is to disagree with someone on the smallest point, who you agree with on every large particular, I’m going to take the time to meditate on at least one of his observations that I don’t quite agree with, because it is something that I think quite does matter in our future…
With the federal bail out of the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even a blind man can see that the economy is tanking at full throttle. … I conclude that peak oil will be pretty much off the radar in the next few years among the public, the media and politicians
Russia: Folly of the progressive fairytale
How the West is losing the energy cold war
Shut up, Borat – the tinderbox of Kazakhstan oil
Heinberg: Is peak oil “A Misleading Concept?”
Focus on climate change and ignore peak oil? Not good enough.
Rough seas
Geopolitical disruptions #2: Identifying the feedback loops
Sounding like ‘Peak Oil’ advocate, Toyota warns world faces ‘Supply Shortages and Resource Exhaustion’
New York Times columnist calls for a Green Revolution
The Fate of BC’s Carbon Tax
Tea Leaves (Presidential elections and the price of oil)
E&E Daily’s Berman, Geman preview congressional action on energy (video and transcript)
Oil crisis hiding in plain sight; pump prices and crude still way ahead of year ago levels
Charlie Maxwell to Barron’s: $300 oil is inevitable
An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply
Soros: The perilous price of oil
Dirty little secret
Kingsnorth trial: Goldsmith defends climate change activists
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Warming oceans make strongest storms stronger: study
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
Mining Oil From WWII shipwrecks
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
