The admiral’s warning
In a 1957 speech, before a gathering of physicians, Adm. Rickover raised the specter that easily accessible and economically reasonable supplies of fossil fuels would be in jeopardy … just about now.
Oil
Oil prices – Oct 19
Bears smell oil bubble as price soars
Saudi Aramco may miss production goals, says Simmons
Real reasons for $88 a barrel
$100 oil, here we come!
Oil prices – Oct 18
NYT: Record price of oil raises new fears
US concerned about “very high” oil prices: Bodman
Pocketbook pinch ahead – if soaring oil prices stay high
Oil is not the only commodity on a tear
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United Kingdom – Oct 18
Green groups condemn UK’s claim in Antarctica
Britain’s new claim for sovereignty in Antarctica is all about energy
BP executive pied as Europe’s largest biofuels event disrupted
Russia – Oct 18
Putin criticizes US campaign in Iraq (oil)
Peak oil ‘decades away’ – Lukoil chief
Energy-rich Caspian becomes center of U.S.-Russia power struggle
Tar sands and coal – Oct 18
Higher Alberta levies threaten oil sands pipeline plans
Tar sands and the American automobile
US Coal plant plans scrapped, delayed
Peak oil – Oct 18
Peak oil means peak economy – Hirsch (podcast)
Houston ASPO – report on the Workshop day
Deffeyes: perhaps five years left for ‘serious action’
Experts worry that world oil production may soon peak
Peak oil theory believers include some of the world’s most respected engineers and economists, many of whom have years of experience working in the oil and gas industry. Some of them go so far as to say the world may have already peaked in its oil production and that production will soon go into a steep decline.
Movie review: What a Way to Go
I have seen a number of films on Peak Oil, climate change and the other ills of our society and planet, but none has moved me so much as this one.
Peak oil – Oct 17
Juan Cole: Oil peak or peak oil?
New Scientist reviews Crude Awakening
Oilwatch Monthly – October 2007
World energy and population: trends to 2100
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
ODAC News
Economics – Oct 17
Soaring oil prices have yet to derail economy
Economies adjust as oil heads for $90 a barrel
When oil prices rise, so does just about everything else
Finance Round-Up from TOD:Canada
Geopolitics – Oct 17
Not much oil at risk from Turkey/Iraq tension
We’re doing all we can: OPEC chief
Consumption of Venezuelan crude oil and petroleum products rising sharply
‘Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control’
Ecuador oil: more trouble ahead
