Peak oil – Aug 23
Richard Heinberg interview
On sale: 2015 crude oil below $45 ! (The market does not believe in peak oil)
ASPO international conference in Ireland mid-September
EROEI: Boundaries and calculations
Oil
The peak oil crisis: hurricanes and meltdowns
The news for the week: our gasoline stocks are so short that a hurricane hit is likely to result in shortages; world supplies are unlikely to increase enough this year to avoid much higher prices in the next six months; and some think we are seeing the beginning of the mother of all economic meltdowns.
Not much should happen before Labor Day, however, so we can all enjoy the rest of the driving season.
Immunize yourself against future hype
A breakthrough in oil & gas industry technology is not inevitable. Indeed, it is not very likely. Painstaking linear growth in technological advances permit more oil to be recovered each year, but Seidensticker’s myths about technology change apply to the oil & gas industry just as they apply to most human endeavors.
Peak oil news – Aug 22
TOD Canada focus on financial crunch
World oil forecasts including Saudi Arabia
ODAC news
Peak oil – Aug 22
Matthew Simmons interview: All the canaries have stopped singing
The social effects of peak oil
Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes a closer look at Escape from Suburbia
Jay Hanson: Can American government survive “peak oil”?
Gregory Green, director of Escape from Suburbia
Peak oil – Aug 21
US peak oil adaptation: prognosis in a credit crunch
The economics of oil: supply & demand
Gail the Actuary: What should we do now?
Peak oil in Trinidad – less faith
Conservationists cannot escape Laws of Energy
Planning for a decline in our oil bounty
How bad is peak oil, really?
Peak oil news – Aug 21
Hurricane Dean to make landfall in Mexico today: Cantarell now in Dean’s sights
Hurricane’s impact on oil infrastructure
Open letter to Duncan Clarke (PO skeptic)
High oil prices and the new dirty energy
Peak Oil Digest from Cornwall
Share slump and credit crunch: passing peak oil
The unfolding financial turmoil may eventually be seen as a historic event. Another turning point, the worldwide peak in oil production, is a key player in this unfolding drama, although its role goes unnoticed by most in the audience.
How to push the oil levers in the wrong direction
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
Sicko and the ecology of health care reform
Sicko‘s success represents a modern day muckraking triumph. Yet it is critical to examine the shortcomings of Moore’s views of health care reform in the context of energy, ecology and sustainability.
Entering the Tough Oil Era
Recent reports from pillars of the Big- Oil/wealthy-nation establishment suggest that the basic logic of peak-oil theory is on the mark and hard times are ahead when it comes to global oil-and-gas sufficiency.
Why Dick changed his mind
In a widely viewed You Tube clip, taken from a C-Span interview conducted in 1994, Dick Cheney argues persuasively that the United States was right not to topple Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War.
