Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Reaction
– Declining Exports
– Energy Briefs
Is Gordon Brown to be blamed for the UK’s oil problems?
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.
CFTC to examine oil traders’ intent, ex-officials say
Russian oil output down 0.3% in Jan-Apr 08
Behind skyrocketing oil prices
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’
T. Boone Pickens on future of energy (video)
Do we need an energy “Manhattan Project”?
Drill now – Georgia’s Westmoreland
Kenneth Deffeyes: Oil production, oil price
TOD: Peak oil media
Kunstler on reactivating small cities, Peak Oil New Zealand
Tennessee: So long to cheap oil
Report on Michigan peak oil conference
Texas to experience effects of export decline?
Venezuela increases petroleum imports despite vast deposits at home
Crude falls $4 as higher prices curb demand
IEA foresees more expensive oil
I left International Transport Forum at Leipzig with the feeling that the future’s biggest questions, energy and climate, lacked leadership. There is nobody who will stand up and say “I have a dream” but rather it is nightmares that are discussed. Peak Oil will, in future, become the politician’s best friend since Peak Oil will reduce CO2 emissions from oil and become a part of the solution that the politicians cannot agree on… Those that actively accept and respond to the Peak Oil idea will be the winners of the future. (Report from a meeting of European transport ministers)
Speculation – but not manipulation
Regulators step up probes of trading in oil markets
Commodity policies set for revision
Regulators strengthen oversight of energy markets
Oil traders reduced bets on rising prices as crude hit records
Traders and commodity exchanges fight back
