Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
WSJ quotes Yergin of CERA: ‘It’s not that the genie is out of the bottle — it’s that 100 genies are out of the bottle’
Goldman’s Murti: Oil `likely’ to reach $150-$200
NYT: Gas prices expected to peak in June
A tricky balance: oil industry employees
The disconnect between peak oil concerns and the presidential race is almost total. The candidates remain unwaveringly oblivious to the true causes of rising fuel prices, preferring instead to dwell on irrelevant — actually, counterproductive—measures like suspending the federal gas tax during the summer months or taxing Big Oil. This is akin to putting a band-aid on a melanoma.
Senate Democrats unveil a new energy bill based on the same false premises as the Republican bill.
WaPo: Fighting global warming block by block
City of Swiss-style hill villages envisioned for Vancouver
Bellingham planning for PO
Are livable cities just a dream?
Tim O’Reilly: Fermi’s Paradox and the end of cheap oil
People’s Weekly: End of cheap oil is now
Shell execs briefed on peak oil in 1956
On quenching our “big thirst” for oil
12 steps of peak oil
Financial Express of India
Buffet and Munger on peak oil, coal, biofuels, mass transit
Herman Daly: Towards a steady-state economy
Yes, Virginia, this is a recession
No gas tax needed, prices will rise
Atrios: Gas tax and being at capacity
Oil prices and leadership deficits
Oil sets new record above $120 a barrel
WSJ: Tracking Saudi oil from space
Raymond James: More crude price rises loom
Simmons: $100 trillion needed to rebuild energy infrastructure
Turkish Weekly: Demand is slowing but…
Richard Heinberg, Dr. David Goodstein, Megan Quinn Bachman, Julian Darley, Pat Murphy, Albert Bates, Sharon Astyk, Katie Alvord, Aaron Wissner, Randy White, Kurt Cobb and dozens of others tackle gasoline prices, food prices, mortgage rates and the future of the global economy at peak oil, climate change, and sustainability conference.
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on peak oil
Washington Times: The coming crisis
Ellen Ratner (WND): America’s oil
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– U.S. Politics
– Nigeria
– Iraq
– Energy Briefs
It is hard for our businesses to see beyond the next quarterly report; hard for elected officials to see beyond the next election. But they were talking about post-oil, and what they would be doing and what the world should be doing now and would be doing in a post-oil world.
