Peak Oil Review – January 28th, 2008
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
Oil
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Shell executive on peak oil, oil prospects
Excerpts from a long interview with Shell’s Jeroen van der Veer.
Geopolitics – Jan 25
High oil prices prompt a scramble for Africa
An oil-powered Russia
Elites love to pig out on energy
Peak oil – Jan 25
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
Peak oil – Jan 24
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
The peak oil crisis: The future of cars – part 1
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.
ODAC Guest Commentary to CERA Press Release
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”.
Fuel prices – Jan 23
Nepal: Massive hike in prices of diesel, kerosene, LPG
Nepal students burn tyres to protest fuel hike
High gas prices: Recession-proof
Peak oil – Jan 23
Sharon Astyk: Is relocalization doomed?: a response to Stuart Staniford
Mexico’s crude oil production fell 5.3% in 07
$100 oil – futurist revisits predictions
Is PO good news or bad for hydro and seismic operators?
The end of cheap oil: Are you ready, supply chain managers?
Peak everything economics, or, what do you call this mess?
If you’re interested in finding shelter during the storm, get thee to the productive side of the economy. Grow something, or learn to make or repair something useful.
Peak oil – Jan 22
The fallacy of reversibility: why peak oil actually helps industrial agriculture
OPEC Secretary-General : ‘International oil companies are the real dinosaurs’
Not “peak oil” but “trough oil”!
Review: Shell Game by Steve Alten
“How to Boil a Frog” on peak oil
