Energy giant Russia – Oct 21
BBC Europe diary: The gas man /
More thoughts about Gazprom /
Israeli PM raises energy issue in Moscow /
The emerging Russian giant plays its cards strategically
Oil
Geopolitics – Oct 20
Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil \
Iraq: US May Have Weeks, Not Months, To Avert Civil War \
Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? \
Bush signs torture bill; Americans lose essential freedom \
The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas
Oil – Oct 18
Pombo pushes for lower oil fees /
Costs rise for Petro-Canada to refine oilsands feedstock /
Stranded oil recovery and American energy independence /
OPEC to discuss output cut Oct. 19
China – Oct 17
China’s student activist movement
Energy security and sustainability in China
China to start filling 2nd oil reserve
Russia – Oct 17
Shell welcomes Gazprom at Sakhalin, says all issues resolved
Russia to check all oil firms amid Shell row
Experts predict black-out winters in Europe
Peak oil – Oct 17
Lies, damned lies and government oil production forecasts?
Energy depletion & the US descent into fascism
Video: imPOssible mission
Peak oil – Oct 16
Peak oil update: production forecasts and EIA oil production
Fear and money in Dubai
Oil prices: a pause, then up
Unholy trinity set to drag us into the abyss
ASPO: European Union addresses Peak Oil
ASPO: Oil Depletion Protocol
Peak Oil – Oct 14
The world’s shortest Peak Oil article
Large increase of Peak Oil coverage in printed press
NYT: The Deathwatch for Cheap Oil
Kunstler: Swan Dive
Kunstler: Peak oil and tradable paper currencies
Lundberg: Peak Oil naysayers partying on for growth
Peak Moment Television: new episodes
Audio: Andrews & Lawrence on ASPO USA Boston Conference
Audio: Energy expert Hughes gives preview of talk at ASPO
Long live the Pentagon
The US military oil consumption is generally regarded to be a small amount compared to the country’s gigantic consumption. Since oil is and will remain a strategic vital commodity, the Pentagon does not have a luxury of turning its back to oil.
Hubbert’s Defense Department
The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Proposing Plan C
Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”
Oil – Oct 12
World Oil Exports: A Comprehensive Projection
Oil price volatility and possible consequences
Lower gas prices won’t last, say UC-Davis professors
EU oil imports set to grow by 29% by 2012
Putin Suggests Creation of Oil Exchange in St. Petersburg
America’s dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher
How Hot Money Inflames Oil Prices
