Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
The kinder, gentler energy superpower: Canada
The oil majors in Africa: Trickier times ahead for big fish
Supergrid could provide 30% of Europe’s electricity
Norwegian gas will go to highest bidder
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Trouble in China
– Shell
– Prospects for Iraqi Production
– Energy Briefs
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Excerpts from a long interview with Shell’s Jeroen van der Veer.
High oil prices prompt a scramble for Africa
An oil-powered Russia
Elites love to pig out on energy
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
Candid piece on PO from Bloomberg: “Prius designer says industry must lose oil addiction”
Energy: Centre of power is on the move
The universal mining nachine
Oil pimping: Kunstler interview
Since the end of World War II, the private gasoline-powered automobile has become the center of life in America. There are few other cultures in the world today that are not trying to emulate America as soon as their economic circumstances permit.
CERA, the prominent Boston based Cambridge Energy Research Associates (www.cera.com) issued a puzzling 4 page press release on January 17, titled “No Evidence of Precipitous Fall on Horizon for World Oil Production: Global 4.5% Decline Rate Means No Near-Term Peak”.
