Peak Oil Review – July 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The World Petroleum Conference
– The IEA’s Medium-Term Market Report
– Energy Briefs
Oil
How peak oil will affect health care
The key to societal survival of peak oil is a drastic reduction in reliance on oil, and Cuba provides a model of how this had to be achieved in health care when the 1990s ‘Special Period’ saw a dramatic fall in the supply of oil, and yet Cuba managed to maintain health indicators on par with and in some cases exceeding those of the UK. The paper suggests that the UK public, clinicians and media are not ready for the challenge of change required, which would effectively move health care away from cure and from increasing profits through privatisation, to prevention and to state provision, and there are lessons that can be learnt from the Cuban experience.
Peak oil & prices – July 5
ASPO Newsletter – July
The upside of $200 oil
The year everything changed
Hunting for oil villains (Hunt brothers and silver market)
King of Saudi Arabia talks about oil; we should listen
Peak oil – July 4
Michael Klare: Life at the summit
Russia’s Medvedev sees oil price at $150
Middle East oil consumption shows strong growth
Oil megaproject update
United Kingdom – July 4
The art of wishful thinking, or why the World Cup Finals won’t get us out of this
Hauliers warn of wildcat strikes over fuel prices
London Biotopes and Body Ecologies (London water)
ODAC Newsletter – July 4
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
What lifestyles without oil?
At the Tällberg Forum in Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden, Chief Jake Swamp from the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe and I had a conversation about “What lifestyles without oil?”.
Peak oil & prices – July 3
Energy prices: What’s supply got to do with it?
Senate hearing on EIA’s forecasts for oil
The commodities bubble
Dale Allen Pfeiffer: Dealing with gasoline prices
Transportation – July 3
Airbus And Boeing face a dark and painful future
Big job cuts announced at American
Car sales at 10-year low
SUV drivers burned twice: at the pump, on the car lot
The peak oil crisis: assesing $200 oil
While some sort of quantitative evaluation of our future would be nice, $200 oil easily could be here before anyone can crunch the numbers.
Peak Oil Notes – July 3
A mid-week update on peak oil:
– Oil prices
– The World Petroleum Congress
– Iranian nuclear enrichment
As good as it gets
Deceptive statements now dominate the political discourse on America’s oil crisis in the 2008 presidential campaign. The confused debate about Republican supply-side measures versus Democratic demand-side measures entirely misses the central point: domestic oil production is about to experience a mini-peak in the years 2010-11 and then resume its inevitable decline.
