Lifeboat time
Recent news stories point to the real possibility that a wave of crises of the kind predicted by the theory of catabolic collapse may be imminent. Can we afford to wait until the window of opportunity for constructive action closes?
Oil
Oil prices – Nov 28
How high can the price of a barrel of crude go?
$100 oil and the ‘S’ word (speculation)
Seven questions: the price of fear
Deep thought – Nov 28
Jamais Cascio’s Green tomorrows: 4 scenarios
The technodevelopmental quartet
Australia, the place to be
Questioning peak oil economic assumptions
Peak oil proponents assume a simple model of the relation between oil supply or price shocks and economic performance. Economists have called into question some aspects of that model.
Bite of high oil prices only beginning
What’s in store for us after the peak? A decline in oil supply, and even higher oil prices. I see three possible roads to higher oil prices.
Outlook for fuel reserves
Long and detailed analysis of the complete fossil fuel cycle by Dr. M. K. Hubbert (1976). Full text available as a PDF. Previously unavailable.
Peak oil – Nov 27
TOD: Help us list megaprojects
Where enhanced oil recovery (EOR) succeeds and where it does not
Oil prices to keep rising as demand grows
Norway sees no respite to high oil prices
Peak oil in the media – Nov 27
Radio Netherlands: The Age of Petroleum draws to a close (Michael Klare)
Matt Simmons on NPR
TIME business columnist: Maybe those peak oil people weren’t crazy after all
ODAC News
Oil prices – Nov 27
Fortunes shift as oil prices soar
A big toll on small oil businesses
Fuel prices produce gasps, fumes in Eastern Sierra town
Gas thefts on the rise
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
China and India – Nov 27
China calls for warning system to ensure oil supplies
Subsidised fuel weighs on India’s budget
Reaching our peak oil supply
It is time, however, for discerning people – not only decision-makers, but every one of us – to start talking about and urgently planning for a peak-oil future. It may come sooner, it may come later, but it’s coming. (One of best articles to appear yet in the MSM.)
