Cheated by the Heat
“Hot gas” is costing consumers like you and I billions of dollars every year. Is this just an oversight, or a scheme devised by gas stations to milk consumers of more money?
Oil
Energy sources – Jan 23
Oil sands projects steam ahead in Alberta, despite Harper
Rogers: oil will rise to $100 after `correction’
Coal combustion: nuclear resource or danger
Chernobyl churches
Hungarian gas field could turn country into gas exporter
Portland releases draft of peak oil plan
The City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force released its 88-page draft report for public comment.
Where Is the energy for freedom?
The future is coming fast, and we’ll choose it through our actions as citizens, consumers and voters. The question remains: Do we have the energy for freedom?
Whither oil? – Jan 21
What happened to the oil boom?
Reality check in a tumbling oil market
Trying to make sense of the new GSCI
Peak oil – Jan 21
Update from Kenneth Deffeyes
Conoco reserves disappoint analysts
Modern economic theories unable to tackle peak oil, global warming
Rep. Bartlett supports H.R. 6 energy bill
Oil sands – Jan 21
U.S. urges ‘fivefold expansion’ in Alberta oilsands production
Close energy ties to U.S. limit action on climate change
Du sable dans l’engrenage – good Canadian broadcast (French)
Nuclear power in oilsands extraction questioned
Peak oil – Jan 20
Revenge of the Shia?
Cubic Miles of Oil (CMOs): Getting a grasp on oil production volumes
Pemex predicts production drop
Pemex faces change or drying up
Nigeria – Jan 17
65m barrels of crude oil missing
Nigerians groan as fuel scarcity bites harder
The peak oil crisis: Congressional hearings – round #2
The heart of the hearings focused on the idea that 75 percent of the world’s oil reserves are now in the hands of national state-controlled oil companies and this percentage is expected to keep growing.
A post-oil man
Strangely compelling video-art featuring a peak oil survivalist.
Is energo-fascism in your future?
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
