Prices – May 12
Jad Mouawad: Politicians search for a solution to high oil prices, answers evade them
A peek behind the price at the pump (sinking dollar)
Mystery Indian analyst spooks world economy (Murti of Goldman Sachs)
Oil
Peak oil: “It’s the flows, stupid!”
Because they don’t understand peak oil, many reporters keep getting the story wrong. Because they don’t understand peak oil, some in the U.S. Congress and Senate now threaten to sue OPEC. Because they don’t understand peak oil, business journals keep whining that producer nations don’t practice rational economics.
Peak Oil Review — May 12th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– ASPO-Ireland’s Depletion Model
– The Goldman Sachs Forecast
– Brazil’s Deepwater Discovery
– Energy Briefs
Peak oil – May 12
ASPO President Kjell Aleklett’s blog: Future of OPEC?
The end of OPEC
Peak oil and what it means to Long Island
Low supply – end of the road for cheap oil
The post-oil novel: a celebration!
The post-oil novel began as a little-known aberration within the speculative fiction genre. But it’s now hitting bestseller lists, generating comment in major papers, and garnering increasing acceptance from the mainstream of speculative fiction. Frank Kaminski takes a spirited, authoritative look at this blossoming subgenre
Energy industries – May 11
As Gazprom goes, so goes Russia
Is ExxonMobil’s future running dry?
Mines engineers in pivotal position, Yergin tells grads
Scientific American: Nuclear fuel recycling – more trouble than it’s worth
World coal demand has prices skyrocketing
United States – May 11
How to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
U.S. security linked to our ability to withstand shortages
NRDC’s Lashof: carbon allowance proposals
Senators probe restructuring of FutureGen
Water protection for carbon sequestration
ODAC Newsletter
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
United States – May 10
Robert Baer: Playing the Iraq oil card
$200 scheduled for 1/20/09 – what US can do
Liberal think tank: Up, up, and away?
The false lure of lower gas prices
Gas prices hit hard – USA Today special report
Energy industry – May 10
Oil lobby reaches out to peeved citizens
Colbert takes on oil lobby
Ensuring the future of the industry – workforce
Chevron: 1,100 employees eliminated
Fresh interest in L.A.’s oil wells
Coal situation worsens at India thermal stations
Oil prices – May 10
Oil passes $126 on Venezuela concerns
Oil execs see $100-or-less cost by year’s end
The case for $80 a barrel oil
World begins to smart from oil’s too rapid rise
Oil prices – May 9
Why $120 oil is good
Iran says $200/barrel oil possible
Where will oil settle? Around $100
