Oil industry – May 23
Oil execs defend huge profits before Senate
Oil companies plan on higher crude prices
Crude’s price surge attracts oil-field thieves
Garages use ‘stingers’ to combat petrol theft
Oil
Oil producers – May 23
The Saudis vote for Obama (by saying ‘no’ to Bush)
Growing demand in producing countries pushes up price
Indonesia: Thousands protest fuel price plan
Indonesia: Oil firms short on output targets
Australia – May 23
Time for the price of fuel to rise above politics
No silver bullet for fuel prices: Rudd
How petrol is putting Sydney under the pump
Oil bubble? – May 22
Make way for the next market mania
Oil’s no bubble
Oil trading turns contango on its head
James Hamilton: Oil price rise due mainly to fundamentals, not speculation
Economist: Oil – is there a bubble?
Prices & supplies – May 22
Oil rises above $134 on U.S. supply drop, bank price forecasts
An oracle of oil predicts $200-a-barrel (Murti)
Oil for 2016 delivery passes $141
US calls on China to join global energy group, help stabilize oil markets
Opec defends high prices in face of US legal action
Business Week on oil: Up, up, up
Peak oil primers
Gail Tverberg: Peak oil overview
Nate Hagens: Peak oil – whom to believe?
Sharon Astyk: Peak energy overview
Energy Bulletin: Peak oil primer
Responses – May 22
The changing role of the peak oil-aware
Astyk: So, you’ve just discovered peak oil!
NZ Guide to Surviving the Future 2008
Dangers of focusing solely on climate change (or PO)
Peak oil – May 22
WSJ: Oil monitor to slash estimate of world’s supply of crude (IEA pessimism)
Globe & Mail:
Record oil prices signal ‘new world’
‘Peak oil scenario’ approaching faster than expected
United Kingdom – May 22
Road policy oil assumptions attacked ($70 a barrel in 2020!)
Put UK airport expansion on hold, demands green group
Erosion of Britain’s peatlands
Peak oil notes
Late-breaking developments:
– Prices
– The International Energy Agency
Oil the news oil the time
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
The peak oil crisis: The Secretary of Transition
As gasoline prices go higher and higher and as the polls show voters more and more concerned about how they are going to fill their tanks, the Congress is starting to stir.
