What are our alternatives, if fossil fuels are a problem?
Answers questions like “I love my SUV. Why can’t we continue to use oil and gas as in the past?” and “Won’t ethanol cover our fossil fuel shortfall?”. Good educational material.
Oil
Peak oil – March 31
Swedish PhD thesis: World oil production close to peak
Helicopter industry watching peak oil
Congressman Bartlett Warns Of A Energy Crisis
Oil industry – March 30
Marseille dispute threatens fuel supplies
Big Oil spends more, only some see 2007 output up
From what was once Yukos, Russia builds state-owned oil giant
Pertamina acknowledges LPG scarcity
Bartlett elaborates on GAO peak oil report
Address to U.S. House of Representatives, giving background on peak oil and concluding: “with proper leadership, I think that Americans could be exhilarated by the challenge.”
Peak oil – March 30
End of oil heralds climate pain
Pickens: Fundamentals pushing up oil
Kunstler at the Commonwealth Club of Calif
Review: “Crude Impact”
Arbitrage – insights into Saudi knowledge
Good golly, Ms Moly
GAO: U.S. needs a peak oil strategy
Highlights from the just released GAO report on peak oil: “Uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline in oil production.”
Coverage of the GAO peak oil report
Reactions from Matt Simmons, CNBC, The Oil Drum, Tom Whipple, AP, UPI, Wall Street Journal, EV World and Congressional Quarterly.
Associated Press picks up on peak oil
The Associated Press (AP) has just put out a story on the peak oil report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The story will be published by dozens or hundreds of newspapers and news sites.
70s oil crisis was a ‘perfect storm’ for U.S.
“What does the energy crisis teach us? That it’s hard for meaningful change when few think there is a problem,” MIT author Meg Jacobs said. The challenge today, as much as it was then, is to “create a market and momentum for new ways of thinking about energy.”
Peak oil – March 28
Variety gives thumbs up to “Crude Impact”
Peak oil – Who to believe?
Review: “The Last Oil” Shock by David Strahan
Peak oil scenario paints frightening future
Middle East – March 28
Saudi king slams ‘illegitimate occupation’ of Iraq
Why is King Abdullah saying No to Bush’s dinner?
The Strait of Hormuz, Iran and the risk to oil
GAO report on peak oil to be released
Reps. Roscoe Bartlett and Tom Udall will hold a new conference Thursday to discuss the release of an embargoed GAO report on peak oil. The report will reveal the U.S. is particularly vulnerable and the U.S. federal government is unprepared to respond to severe consequences from an increasing risk of significant disruptions to world oil supplies from peak oil and other factors.
