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
The New Silk Road: rail links from China
As energy jitters continue to rattle the global economy, regional alliances are being solidified to ensure that China will remain a viable and growing economy as oil depletion becomes a permanent fixture of our daily lives.
Peak Oil News Network – Oct 21
Birth of TOD: Australia / New Zealand
Just Ask Robert: Your energy questions answered
New Peak Moment transcripts: Cuba and PO’s social effects
TOD:Local needs your contributions
Energy and Environment Round-Up from TOD:Canada
ODAC News
Peak oil – Oct 21
Platts Report on ASPO-USA: Dark clouds, no silver linings
Houston ASPO Day 2 part 1
Heinberg interview: Peak everything
The tar sands and Canada’s food system
Canadian Gas – Decline Sets in
Global warming could threaten U.S. oil output
Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study
World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year.
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!
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’
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
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.
