Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Energy excerpts from Annual Threat Assessment (Director of National Intelligence)
White House Council of Economic Advisors on peak oil
Tugs tend LNG tanker as repairs made off Cape Cod
Natural gas touted
Bush’s science adviser on climate, energy security
Bolivia’s irresistible reserves
Clouds on Kurdistan’s horizon
Omani company’s output to decline for eighth year
Marion King Hubbert and Jay Wright Forrester, working independently, set the basis for a new science. They were not the first to study the limits of the world’s resources. But they were the first to do that using mathematical models that could be extrapolated into the future.
Venezuela threatens to cut US oil
Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo
Daniel Ortega brands Exxon’s move as a US attack
Chavez’s big oil bluff
Oilsands can’t fill gap if Venezuela cuts oil
Monbiot: Even capitalists now admit the oil crisis is real
Cantarell update & production projection
Peak oil on ABC-Australia’s Counterpoint
ASPO-USA looking for executive director
What megabubble will bring us down?
When does peak oil arrive?
Will candidates debate PO?
“Betting on depletion is like betting on rust. Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 [now $100,000] that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.”
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Chavez is ratcheting the rhetoric against the US government as well as against Exxon. We can expect the oil markets to take notice as they re-open in the morning tomorrow.
The author believes that as part of a policy to establish greater control over the world’s energy resources, the United States has instituted a policy of covertly engineering Pakistan’s dismemberment.
Middle School teacher Aaron Wissner wants to get the word out that energy is about to get very expensive — a Wall Street Journal article would do nicely.
CERA vs. Peak Oil: it’s getting serious
Oil crisis ahead? ‘Peakniks’ build for future
Queensland plans to cut fossil fuel use
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has made about 30 speeches to the House about peak oil, and a book is in the works. In an interviewer with an Energy Bulletin contributor, he suggests raising the peak oil issue with your Member of Congress.
