Peak Oil Review – June 4, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
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Oil Industry – June 3
API blogger conference call on hurricane preparedness
GAO: US gives oil firms good deals
U.S. refineries are unable to meet surge in demand
Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms
Exxon Mobil could get an earful
Peak Oil – Jun 3
Peak oil debate in oil industry journal
No More Gushers for ExxonMobil
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
Denial II – Why we deny our Energy Condition
Peak Oil on EurActiv
A few good (oil) men
It is quite possible that if gas pains increase we will see Big Oil CEO’s dragged into the Senate to answer the same inane questions. One can only hope it will play out as it did in the movie A Few Good Men.
Gas prices – May 31
Price-fixing: A numbers game that’s hard to win
Record gas prices amidst hyperconsumption and slaughter
Playing politics at the pump
On the likelihood of peak oil
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) claims that the oil supply will continue to grow as it has in the past. Those studying the peak oil hypothesis, so-called peakists, are not so confident that the future will resemble the past. Peakists believe that CERA is ignoring the warning signs of peak oil.
Gas prices – May 30
Holidaymakers forced to take slow boat
Nobody wants to pay the price of going green
Pump prices hit home more in Kentucky
Gasoline to cause severe financial problems
Energy wisdom is knowing that you do not know
The great Victorian economist, Stanley Jevons, published an exhaustive study of the coal industry in 1865.
Producers – May 30
Middle East makes inroads into Alberta oil patch
Deals signed on Malacca Strait pipeline
Pickens eyes $70 mln for Clean Energy IPO
APEC to study impact of state-owned oil companies
Is the story of Iraq’s ‘massive untapped oil reserves’ fact or fictions?
Huge gas reserves found in southwest China
Peak oil – May 30
CNN special: We were warned: Out of oil
ODAC News
Sharon Astyk: Feels like I’m dying
peak oil in 600 words or less
Peak Oil – May 29
Kunstler: We Want Solutions!
Oil Prices; Blowin in the Wind
Limits To Growth?
Oil more expensive than it appears
Preparing for Powerdown
This isnt just an oil peak- it is an all-time energy peak for humanity. Solutions are to be found by creating small-scale, local communities, and each community needs to work towards self-reliance in food, energy and essential trades and services.
