Economics – May 6
Buffet and Munger on peak oil, coal, biofuels, mass transit
Herman Daly: Towards a steady-state economy
Yes, Virginia, this is a recession
Oil
U.S. gas tax – May 6
No gas tax needed, prices will rise
Atrios: Gas tax and being at capacity
Oil prices and leadership deficits
Prices & supplies – May 6
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…
Urban design – May 6
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?
Michigan conference on peak oil & climate change May 30
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.
Peak oil – May 5
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on peak oil
Washington Times: The coming crisis
Ellen Ratner (WND): America’s oil
Peak Oil Review – May 5th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– U.S. Politics
– Nigeria
– Iraq
– Energy Briefs
Bartlett’s 43rd peak oil speech to Congress
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.
Peak oil – May 4
Houston Chronicle: Plateau
Oil is expensive because oil is scarce
Oil giants signal retreat on renewables
The cost of keeping the economy afloat on oil
Oil crisis of the 70s back to haunt us
Oil industry – May 4
Abu Dhabi National Energy CEO: Consumption reform only way to curb oil price
The dangerous delusions of “energy independence”
Big Oil’s widening profit gap
Dead ducks a boon for oil-sands opponents
Peak oil voices – May 4
James Howard Kunstler on the Colbert Report
Kunstler responds to critics
Rep. Bartlett 43rd PO speech to Congress
Heinberg speaks with Vermont leaders
The just-in-time economy crumbles
The realization that just-in-time methods have ceased to serve us well comes at a time when it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to build a stockpile of anything.
