Peak oil notes
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices and consumption
– Subsidies
Oil
Prices – June 4
Jeff Vail: Falling dollar behind oil price rises?
Oil price crash not imminent despite bubble: Soros
Reports of oil boom’s death look premature
Oil price and hurricane season
Lehman Brothers: Oil price bubble will burst with a bang like dot-com did
How speculators are manipulating & profiting from the global food crisis
Producers – June 4
Shura member calls for oil production curbs in Saudi Arabia
Argentina halts Chile natural gas exports
Russia… energy priority #1
Caspian CPC May oil exports fall 9.5% vs April
Indonesia says good-bye OPEC, hello peak oil
Global net oil exports have declined for 2 years
ANWR is not the answer
Americans are easily misled about domestic “supply-side” solutions to rising oil prices and dwindling global exports. Their confusion is understandable. Oil company executives like Shell’s John Hofmeister have called for opening up now restricted areas in Alaska or on the outer continental shelves, implying that salvation is only a few oil wells away.
Peak oil – June 4
The New World Energy Order (interview with IEA economist Fatih Birol)
Dallas vs. Indonesia
The hollow victory of Rep. Bartlett
Peak oil – June 3
Jeffrey Brown: Is a net oil export hurricane hitting the US Gulf Coast?
Energy analyst Douglas-Westwood on PO
Peak oil quotes at Reuters conference
ASPO newsletter for June
Oil price drivers — a look at the fundamentals
David Strahan on Newsnight
Peak Oil Review — June 2, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Reaction
– Declining Exports
– Energy Briefs
All that’s wrong with ‘common wisdom’ in one article
Is Gordon Brown to be blamed for the UK’s oil problems?
ASPO-USA conference Sept 21-23 in Sacramento
ASPO-USA’s fourth annual “Dialogue with the Experts,” a high-level conference to discuss impacts of and responses to a peak in world oil production.
Prices & supplies – June 1
CFTC to examine oil traders’ intent, ex-officials say
Russian oil output down 0.3% in Jan-Apr 08
Behind skyrocketing oil prices
Energy policies – June 1
Forgotten themes – how Australia is coping
Why I was wrong about rationing
UK power giant says energy industry on the brink of radical change
Pushing South (Canadian pipelines)
Oil well in South Downs is ‘act of vandalism’
United States – June 1
T. Boone Pickens on future of energy (video)
Do we need an energy “Manhattan Project”?
Drill now – Georgia’s Westmoreland
