Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We’re not yet at Hubbert’s peak – call it instead ‘de facto peak oil’
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)
Fuel-price protests spread across Europe
Lorry drivers converge on London in fuel protest
High oil prices will hurt trade
U.S. small business crunched by fuel prices
Australia: Waking from the dream
George Monbiot: Dear Saudi Arabia, only you can save the planet
ASPO Switzerland – first general assembly
Supply-demand imbalance boosts oil prices
South Africa: The end of oil is nigh
Japan blames speculators for oil hike
Saudi Aramco to spend $129 billion from 2009 to 2014
Asking Opec to solve the oil crisis misses the burning point
IEA says optimistic to think oil price will fall much
Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price “head fake”?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?
As Americans become more desperate for oil, I expect that ANWR and offshore areas will be opened for oil development. It will be like burning the furniture to keep the house warm in mid-January. It will be a desperate move that won’t result in much.
Crude oil rises a second day on Nigeria attack, Mexico output
Commodity prices soar,
but are they in a bubble?
George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble
Saudi Khursaniyah oilfield not pumping yet – Aramco
Oil’s surge causing major changes in US economy
What if gas cost $100 a gallon?
Oil prices in Australia
Oil revenue and sovereign wealth funds
Consequences of rising oil prices for producing countries
India oil firms weeks away from bankruptcy
Damage control
Dallas Morning News: The end of cheap oil?
Peak oil on Dutch television
Australian headlines: If only they’d read The Oil Drum
David Strahan: What happens next?
Stopping oil’s assault (5 possible solutions)
Oil markets will ignore congressional machinations
Peak oil and off grid
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– In the Congress
– Subsidies
– The IEA’s Forecast
– Energy Briefs
For many it comes as a shock that Big Oil has transformed into the ”five little brothers”. Today, the world’s seven largest oil companies are completely outside the control of the U.S. Senate.
