World War III more likely from oil grabs than radical Islam
Richard Heinberg’s new book offers a plan to stand down from oil-war brinksmanship.
Oil
Commentary: Underestimating Demand, Overestimating Supply
The world of oil has turned out very different from what the experts at EIA, IEA, CERA, BP, EXXON and others all thought.
Urgent action is needed to avert the looming oil wars
While the world’s attention is focused on the aftermath of the Israel-Hizbollah war, more far-reaching and dangerous threats to global security are growing dramatically. In July, Samuel Bodman, US energy secretary, said that for the foreseeable future “we’re going to see oil demand exceeding supply”.
Other Energy – Sept 4
Is The NYMEX Oil Market Being Manipulated?
Re-inventing nature for cheaper solar power
Plasma arc vanishes garbage
Electrical outages hurting Austin manufacturers
Geopolitics – Sept 4
US Army journal says ethnic cleansing works
Chavez’s whistle-stop world tour
Pakistan to develop coal as gas pipelines stall
Peak Oil – Sept 4
Thriving in the Age of Collapse
CEO of Sharp says fossil fuels ‘totally out’ by 2030
Conveniently, we’re seeing the hard truth
The End of the Oil Era Looms
Saudi Aramco Buys First-Ever Fuel Oil Cargoes
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco, a major fuel oil exporter to East Asia, has imported its first-ever cargoes of the residual fuel, taking a total of around 160,000 tonne for August and September deliveries, to meet peak summer utility demand. . .
Geopolitics – Sept 2
U.S. Army War College: Strategic Competition for the Continent of Africa
Kuwait-China energy ties backed
Cash-strapped Cambodia eyes black gold
Black Gold (and the U.S. self-image)
Welcome to world peace
Stats of Confusion
There has been some discussion in various Peak Oil circles suggesting that the amount of global petroleum available for export to other nations may have peaked late last year. But you’d never know that moment had passed from looking at EIA’s data.
Peak oil forecasters win converts on Wall Street to $200 crude
As energy prices soar and violence convulses the Middle East, the peak-oil movement — an unlikely alliance of geologists, physicists, oil industry consultants and environmental activists — is winning converts. Peak-oil ideas are bubbling up from scientific journals and offbeat Web sites, much the way warnings of global warming did a decade ago. For the first time, the peaksters have begun to grab the attention of Washington and Wall Street. (excerpt)
Commentary: Peak Oil and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Was the cause of the cataclysmic collapse of the Soviet Union really the result of communist inefficiency and U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military build up? Or was there an oil crisis that shocked the Soviet system?
Thoughts from Shell
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
