Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Wall Street Journal on NPC’s report
Oil industry admits it cannot save us
ASPO-USA special on NPC report
Robert Rapier: Peak Lite revisited
Kunstler: Psychotic break
Energy price could bust the boom
As a part of our nation’s defense, we should consider what we need to be available in the event of an interruption in energy supplies, and to push technologies that reduce our energy demand.
I am a Major in the United States Army. …I set out to discover what some of the best minds in the world had to say about what the world might look like 20-plus years from now. Specifically, I intended to examine population growth, food production, water availability, and energy supplies. What I discovered shocked me. (Online report)
ODAC News
Oilwatch Monthly
Britain: When the wells dry up
Sky-high oil prices signal higher rates
Former UK Times Editor: Are these the last days of the Oil Age?
China booms- we pay the price
Kenneth S. Deffeyes: Sunset
Australian senator: Blood for oil
If you’re in a hole, merge. But is it too late for BP and Shell?
Chris Skrewbowski on the dramatic shortage of new LNG mega projects
China View: Why does Kuwait keep its oil reserves secret?
Kuwait and IEA show declining oil production future
Rebels say attack on Mexican pipeline is just the beginning
Mexican troops to guard energy sites
Mexico: a nation-state dissolves?
Vital ingredient is missing from oil mix (subsidized prices)
“Peak oil” advocates blast U.S. industry study
ASPO-USA fall world oil conference
Review of Strahan’s Last Oil Shock
Energy news from The Oil Drum: Canada
ODAC news
In the last few days, two important reports on the prospects for world oil production were “released.” Each of them is likely to make a contribution to the debate over just when the economic troubles occasioned by the peaking of world oil production will occur. [IEA and NPC reports]
Australia serves as a microcosm of a world entering the peak oil era. Aussie oil production has peaked and Australians must face up to the stark choices these circumstances present.
The International Energy Agency, the intergovernmental energy watchdog, has been going in overdrive lately. Now we have a disquieting interview in Le Monde, the big French daily, with Claude Mandil, the head of the Agency, who pulls no punches, despite an apparent denial of “peak oil.”
Dan Bednarz in Orion: Medicine after oil
Steve Andrews of ASPO-USA on CNBC
Interview: Les Magoon on USGS 2000 report
Peak oil in BBC play: Second To Midnight
Geophysicist: Will higher prices bring more supplies?
Cesare Marchetti’s curves (energy substitution model)
Lubricating an oily path to the Middle East
The world has two energy crises but no real answers
Iran’s oil industry: a house of cards?
