Oil prices and supplies – Apr 22
Emerging market oil use exceeds U.S.
Analyst on oil markets, conservation and climate policy
Nigeria’s oil output could fall by a third
Angola oil declines in 2014, state oil company
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Peak oil – Apr 22
Fatih Birol (IEA) interview: ‘We have warned them’
Peak oil film shows impact on local community
Bartlett delivers 42nd peak oil special order
Future looks bleak at the peak
Paraguay and Mexico – Apr 21
Leftist ex-bishop ends Colorado Party rule in Paraguay
Lugo plans to re-negotiate electricity deals
Calderon pushes plan to reform Pemex
Oil bill protest shuts Mexican Congress
A tempest in an oil barrel
Mexico’s unfinished reform
Cynthia McKinney on Mexican oil protest
Middle East – Apr 21
Cheap energy in UAE is over
Mideast’s oil consumption driving prices up
Iran’s president says oil prices too low
Saudis put oil capacity rise on hold
United States – Apr 21
Al Gore – New thinking on the climate crisis
Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in primaries
Obama’s response on oil money
Government as the trustee of common assets
Geopolitics – Apr 21
The US, China, peak oil, and the demise of neoliberalism
What power looks like: meet the superclass
Energy industry – Apr 21
Abundant clean energy in your backyard: natural gas discoveries in US
Eni: Oil majors must rethink business
Oil majors forced to accept tough terms
Shell, Exxon face higher costs on carbon limits
Oil & commodity prices – Apr 21
Russian oil drop may be inflating prices
Weak dollar hits the poor
Why new oil price highs?
Surge in NG price stoked by new global trade
Peak oil at the New York Times
Jad Mouawad: The big thirst
Paul Krugman: Running out of planet to exploit
Krugman reads The Oil Drum
Saudi King Abdullah drops quiet bombshell; U.S. media sleep through it
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said he had ordered some new oil discoveries left untapped to preserve oil wealth in the world’s top exporter for future generation… (Responses from experts)
Peak Oil Review — April 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Food vs. Fuel
– Brazil’s Giant Field
– Energy Briefs
Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008)
ON A HOT DAY in July 1942 Joseph Stalin summoned before him a young mining engineer named Nikolai Baibakov. The supreme leader of the Soviet Union pointed out an obvious fact to his visitor. German armies were advancing into the Caucasus towards the strategic oil fields near Baku. Then came the dramatic gesture.
Stalin pointed two fingers at Baibakov’s head and said, “If you fail to stop the Germans getting our oil, you will be shot.” Then Stalin added “And when we have thrown the invader out, if we cannot restart oil production, we will shoot you again.”
