Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. The lesson to be learned from these two Communist states is change or die. [Former Washington Post columnist von Hoffman jumps on the peak oil bandwagon.]
Richard spoke on the morning of the first day of the ASPO 5 conference and gave a clear and passionate overview of the Oil Depletion Protocol. Here is an overview of what he said.
The first proper speech of ASPO 5 was by Dr. Colin Campbell, and was called ‘Peak Oil in Perspective’.
Bob Hirsch is the author of the deeply influential Hirsch report which has been referred to here on many occasions. I had really been looking forward to hearing him speak but found his talk hugely disappointing.
Skrebowski in Australia: Petrol $2/l by Christmas /
New blog: Peak Oil Blues /
David Holmgren interview on the Heinberg-Holmgren speaking tour of Australia /
Peak Confidence /
Peak Oil Passnotes: Supply ‘Cushionitis’
Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
IF WE ARE reaching the Peak Oil phase of the Age of Oil, perhaps it is useful to return to its origins to understand how it all began. What brought mankind to the point where we now find ourselves? It is not overstating the case to say that John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co. invented the Age of Oil as we know it.
Life in a Post-Carbon World /
The more precious commodity in 2050: Water or oil? /
CorpWatch: Bye Bye Petroleum /
The Politics of Dancing (Peak Oil in music) /
Michael Ruppert in exile: A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
Making Santa Monica a sustainable city in the face of peak oil and global warming /
CERA study disputes peak-oil arguments /
The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide /
Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities /
Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
What created the modern petroleum industry was a confluence of circumstances, and certainly of events. Col. Drake’s innovation in driving a hole into the earth was just one of many things along a long chain of events.
