Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“You can play around with the words, but the hard-core truth is that something must come out of the ground at some time and that’s physics,” says Kjell Aleklett, professor in Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and president of ASPO International.
Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
How soaring fuel prices hurt kids
US water pipelines are breaking
Saudi King says keeping some oil finds for future
Saudi cuts output
IEA cuts world oil demand growth by most in 7 years
IMF forecasts slow global growth
Oil price defies easy calculation
US State Dept.’s Izzo ‘frightened’ by NOCs
Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning (UK’s lack of)
Peak and ye shall find – it doesn’t have to be so bad
Billions of barrels of oil may lie under Northern Plains
There’s gas in those hills (Pennsylvania)
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
Rep. Bartlett at Ohio State teach-in
Chinese scholar on oil: Old supply, young demand
Wither peak oil at Rudd’s 2020 Summit?
IMF accepts peak oil ?
James Hansen: Yankee ticket prices and fossil fuels
Fuel prices alone are unlikely to bring America to its senses. It clearly will take outright shortages with lines at the pumps, curtailed deliveries and many other misfortunes before serious measures –- speed limits, rationing, mandatory car pools, improved mass transit — are taken.
What happens when an oil field as big as any in the Middle East is discovered in the desolate border towns of Montana and North Dakota?
FT: Forget about ‘peak oil’ and instead focus on ‘peak power’
State oil industry’s future sets off tussle in Mexico
Chevron reportedly in talks to tap Iraq’s oil
What effects have oil price increases had on real U.S. GDP growth in the last 7 years? To be honest, nobody really knows—yet. We will all find out eventually.
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
