Gas prices – May 26
Stage set for $US80 oil prices
OPEC official sees no need for more crude
Oil industry preps for Gulf storm season
Oil
Relocalization: A strategic response to peak oil and climate change
The case for relocalization will be made in the context of responding sensibly to two problems facing societies right now: climate change and peak oil and gas. Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs.
Solutions & sustainability – May 26
Transition targets for the Dynamic City
Greg Pahl’s Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
Seeing the future from high above Greenland
Shining a bright light on energy efficiency
60 percent of oil and gas execs believe trend of declining reserves is irreversible
Results of a KPMG survey, which polled 553 financial executives from oil and gas companies in April 2007. “These executives are deeply concerned about declining oil reserves, a
situation they see as irreversible and worsening,” said Bill Kimble of KPMG LLP.
Oil producers – May 25
Beating the oil curse: Mexico could learn from Brazil
U.S. slashes forecast for Mexican oil output
Iraq oil law in limbo
Kucinich on the Iraq oil law: It’s all about oil
China and USA in new Cold War over Africa’s oil riches
Gas prices – May 25
Petrol to hit £1 a litre within week in UK
Poll: Gas costs hurt, but many adjust
TOD readers on oil companies & gas prices
Wis. gas station shuts pumps over prices
House passes gas profiteering bill, but misses target
Oil exec calls on Americans to cut demand
LA Times: Don’t blame oil companies, blame us
MarketWatch: There’s more to it
Energy need – May 25
Ending India’s energy drought
Iran’s decision to raise gas prices exposes economic vulnerability
Zimbabwe: Back to the dark ages
Australia: NG rises as generators run dry
Peak oil – May 24
Discovery/Shock model
Film review: What a Way to Go – Life at the end of empire
Yet More Fun With Numbers: $7/Gallon Gasoline
ODAC News – May 23
Unhappy motoring
Dangerously low inventories make spot shortages and sudden, large price increases real possibilities. As they gas up their cars, Americans gripe about the costs and look for scapegoats… the days of happy motoring are gone.
Gas prices – May 24
Richard Heinberg on high fuel prices
Poll: Prices must go way higher to alter driving
NYT: Graphs of gas prices
Gas price spike longest on record
TOD: Saudi Arabia and gas prices
Oil industry says biofuel push may hurt at pump
Gouging bill stripped down
11 incontrovertible truths of oil production and peak oil arguments
At NASA, we frequently have to step back and retreat to the last recognizable common ground on technical issues. If we hope to expand the dialogue about Peak Oil, …we must begin the discussion at the least common denominator — the bare facts on which everyone can agree.
Oil company profits and high gas prices – May 23
TOD: Here we go again
Impact of rising gas prices ‘fairly limited’, economists say
API conference call on gas prices
MoveOn: Are you feeling gouged?
House passes gasoline gouging bill
