Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables
Drill, drill, drill is working
Paul Krugman: Know-nothing politics
Kunstler: Drill drill drill !!! (or maybe not)
Rising gasoline costs – an animation
Price movements in the short run contain very little information of importance for long-term planning. To pay too close attention to every decline in the oil price would be the equivalent of halting construction on one’s home every time the sun comes out believing that a new era of permanent sunshine and balmy weather obviates the need for shelter.
Georgia and Russia nearing all-out war
Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility
Energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict
A lesson on the United States’ need for Russia
Although it is not yet palpable or palatable, it is logical and an empirical fact that rising energy prices equally threaten the health sciences. The vast majority of health professionals with whom this author has spoken classify high energy costs as troublesome but temporary, as well as outside the boundary of the health professions. A review of the literature shows virtually no research has been conducted on energy strategy and the health sciences – or the role of petroleum-based products – for three decades.
Beyond the semi-glib answer that nothing much has in fact happened in the oil markets in the past month (after all, the recent decline is quite smaller, in percentage terms, than several others in the past couple of years), here are a few points worth making.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Surviving the Apocalypse, on two wheels (Canadian thief hoards 2800 bikes)
Peak oil adds fuel to Swiss energy debate
Why the blackout on peak oil?
Simply not enough oil and gas to go around
‘Peak metal’ problems loom, warns scientist
Changing Lanes(McCain and energy policy
Candidates’ energy plans analyzed (audio)
The true meaning of energy independence (video)
Paris for President?
Great leadership in the face of a cynical power structure
EPA rejects Perry plea on ethanol
Experts clash over viability of biofuels, alternative energy
Burgers or biofuel?
It’s official: The Caspian is a terrorist target
Peak oil and energy imperialism
Analysis: energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict
As world oil production has never peaked before, there is no historical basis for making informed judgments as to what is going to happen.
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Production and prices
– US Imports
– Electricity Shortages
