Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
WSJ: Saudi industrial drive strains oil-export role
NYT: Oil-rich nations use more energy, cutting exports
Volatile mixture of factors lights a fire under crude price
Saudi says no need to cut oil use to fight warming
Oil dreams in the Gulf of Mexico
Urgent message from ASPO-USA
Peak everything: What, me worry?
Peak oil- oil prices in an era of plateau
ODAC Newsletter to cease in 2008
ODAC and TOD:Canada newsletters
Don Quixote and Exxon’s contrarian gamble
Book sounds death knell for nuclear power
Carbon’s rocky road (sequestration)
Roger Bezdek asks a question that answers itself: “What is more important: Food or cheap air fares to Las Vegas and Vail?”
Reserves growth in existing oilfields is largely illusory and will not put off the date of peak oil, according to BP’s former Chief Petroleum Engineer. (Interview)
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Mortgages and Inflation
– Iraq
– 2008
– Energy Briefs
Drawing on the combined wisdom of no less than seven of their reporters strung out around the earth, the New York Times boldly concluded that “The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can sell abroad.”
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
Connecticut PO forum: To The Last Drop?
Jamaica:
Victims of record world oil prices?
Cheap oil is so yesterday
ODAC News
When the oil price soared to over $99 per barrel earlier this year, the cause was not surging demand, nor speculation, nor even impending peak oil, but a forecasting error by the International Energy Agency. That’s according to a presentation by veteran analyst Henry Groppe.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– PPeak Exports
– PChina’s Fuel Shortage
– PEnergy Briefs
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil?
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory : Bernstein Research
Peak oil reading group
Expect to be buffeted by oil price uncertainty
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil: ‘Kill your lawn’
Peak oil and global warming inextricably linked
