Peak oil – Apr 1
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
Oil
ODAC Newsletter – Mar 28
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Peak Oil Review — March 31st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Basra
– China
– Food Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Confessions of a peak oil writer
I’ve come to accept that my influence is going to be very limited. The trick is not to let frustration hamper your ability to do a job you still consider important. While we can be encouraged by the example of the geologist M. King Hubbert, we don’t have 30 years to get this peak oil problem straightened out.
Geopolitics – Mar 30
John Gray: Those who control oil and water will control the world
UN rejects water as basic human right
Steve LeVine interview: Caspian oil struggle
Iraq surge doomed – cause? oil
Answer to Sunni-Shia conlict: gardening
Countdown to $?? oil – setting the stage
I’ve been promising to create a new target for the successor of the “Countdown to $100 oil” series, but I’m in a quandary as to what new target to select. So what are the factors driving oil prices in the near and medium term?
Oil supplies – Mar 29
WSJ: Saudi desert’s gas mirage?
Greenland thaw may replace dog sleds with oil drills
Natural gas rush in Pennsylvania
China faces diesel, gasoline shortages
Peak oil – Mar 29
Udall, Lovins and Shell v-p on peak oil
Russian oil output to fall for first time in a decade
Sharon Astyk: Dissecting the Long Emergency
Peak oil is here, enjoy
Colin Campbell and the crack of doom
A response to Romm on peak oil
It’s high-time for climate activists to wake up and smell the coffee on peak oil. Peak oil problems are immediate and inimical to our ability to solve all the other problems we have — including climate.
Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
ODAC Guest Commentary – Where has it all gone wrong?
Last year’s ‘bêtes noires’ were private equity funds. They had seen the light in terms of leverage and were using debt to fund major acquisitions, taking advantage of ridiculously low credit spreads and getting tax relief on their interest payments into the bargain. The Danish government’s corporation tax revenues fell by an estimated 12% when a consortium of private equity firms bought the Danish telecom operator, TDC for over Euros10bn. Too late, the Danish – and German – governments have introduced legislation to limit corporate tax relief on debt interest.
