Gas tax: it’s still time to increase it
The gas tax holiday is being properly blasted as the insane idea it is. In that context, could we go one step further and actually suggest that increasing the gas tax makes a lot of sense?
Oil
Fatih Birol interview: ‘Leave oil before it leaves us’
The International Energy Agency (IEA) gives the alarm: The world could run out of oil faster than expected – the danger of a supply shortage is rising. (Translation of an interview with the chief economist of the IEA)
Peak oil – May 2
Lawmaker to Minn. governor: What happens at the end of oil?
Mass. Governor: We’re “at the end of the age of fossil fuels”
Ottawa Citizen: Peak oil won’t wait for city planners
Heinberg and Van Jones: The future of energy
Deep thought – May 2
TOD Book Review: World Made by Hand
Darley: The day the gas dried up
Food, fuel, finance: crises are intertwined
Longtime environmentalist Speth: capitalism need a radical transformation
Demise of civilisation may be inevitable
Oil industry – May 2
Exxon profit soars, production falls
Lower oil production is the real story
Shell lambasted for pulling out of world’s biggest wind farm
Peak oil quotes
Mexican oil – May 1
Mexico’s oil industry woes – a hopeful turn
Control of Pemex is about national pride
Untapped oil, overtapped politics
Proposals unlikely to improve Mexico’s oil output
Rising energy costs and the future of hospital work
Fossil fuel costs will continue to rise and eventually the healthcare system will be forced to downsize – just as the Baby Boomers and (possibly) climate change effects – inundate the system.
(Paper delivered at a nurses’ convention)
The coming crunch – May 1
Chevron CEO ponders prices
The coal crunch is materializing
Hudson Institute: Plenty of oil for everyone
Oil & gas industries – Apr 30
Iran dumps U.S. dollars in oil transactions
ExxonMobil row masks true green dilemma
Oil majors rapped over secrecy, corruption
Australia and natural gas – the future of fuel?
Not the end of the world
It’s a good sign that things are heating up when both sides of a controversy declare victory at the same time. Proclamations that the peak oil problem has been solved by recent oil discoveries and announcements that a “fast crash” is already overtaking industrial society have crossed paths with increasing frequency in recent weeks. A more nuanced look may be in order.
Peak oil – Apr 30
OPEC and peak oil
Hamish McRae: We will never have cheap oil again
Gwynne Dyer: Climate change could fend off peak oil crisis
Guardian’s science course covers energy
Sleepwalking toward the oil precipice
The time has come to discuss what we can expect from OPEC as it relates to our prosperity in the coming decade. After 2010, crude produced outside the cartel will plateau and gradually decline, so any growth in the conventional oil supply must come from OPEC.
