Peak Oil Overview – June 2008
Summary of the peak oil story at June 2008. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Oil
Energy policies – June 30
Canada: Energy supplants environment as top concern
Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’
Korea: Oil prices prompt crisis response
Germany has world’s biggest cut in energy use in 2007
Germany approves ambitious CO2 reduction measures
Book Review: “Reinventing Collapse”
Written with the satirical wit of modern Voltaire, Orlov goes where few other peak oil writers have dared to go, and his sardonic Russian humor allows a stark look at American prospects through the eyes of someone who has witnessed collapse first hand.
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Prices & speculation – June 30
Prices won’t be falling anytime soon
Paul Krugman: Confusions about speculation
The speculation explanation: framing the energy crisis
Peak oil – June 30
Michael Klare: End of the petroleum age?
Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out (Simmons)
Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions
Peak scam
Imagining peak oil – June 30
LA Times: Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil
The challenges of peak oil
Tammemagi: Civilization’s golden era is teetering on collapse
Oil disquiet on the Western front
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
Geopolitics – June 30
Report: U.S. ‘preparing the battlefield’ in Iran
Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy
Dubai: spots on the sun
Michael Meacher: The era of oil wars
Bill Moyers: It was oil, all along (in Iraq)
Are they really oil wars?
Peak Oil Review — June 30, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Forecasts
– Shortages
– Energy Briefs
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
Creating bountiful yards with organic edible landscaping
In a world where fertile soil is an endangered resource, millions of acres of our nation’s best agricultural soil are covered with ornamental shrubs and lawns. Soil can be brought into production for agriculture only at great economic and environmental cost. Why do we allow so much of what we have to remain unproductive?
