Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Along with most who have read it, I was much impressed with the Chicago Tribune special segment on oil this weekend. I would highly recommend that you both read the articles and watch the hour-long video that accompanies them.
Artists, we need you. We need your vision and your courage to tell the truth. We’ve got plenty of “analysis,” and enough punditry to last us forever. What we lack are the gut-wrenching stories that put a human face on the collapse that is upon us.
It’s not all about oil (there’s more to rising gas prices than the oil supply) /
Oil execs speak out (interviews) / Oil boom puts stress on water supply
What does it take to quench America’s mighty thirst for gasoline? Pulitzer-winning correspondent Paul Salopek traced gas pumped at a suburban Chicago station to the fuel’s sources around the globe. In doing so, he reveals how our oil addiction binds us to some of the most hostile corners of the planet—and to a petroleum economy edging toward crisis. [A milestone in U.S. coverage: multiple articles and high-quality online video. Topics include peak oil, urban sprawl and Saudi reserves.]
Where will big oil’s big profits go? / Big Oil: booming profits, climbing costs /
Shell shocked / European heat wave shows limits of nuclear energy
Is there a relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and the inauguration of the World’s largest strategic pipeline, which will channel more than a million barrels of oil a day to Western markets?
Michael Ruppert on Peak Moment TV / “Canadian Dimension” features peak oil /
New Statesman political magazine covers oil scarcity /
Online video on peak oil / Wisconsin energy plan flunks reality check
Ten members of the Kuwaiti National Assembly last week tabled a motion to link Kuwait’s crude oil production with its oil reserve. The motion bears some resemblance to the Oil Depletion Protocol developed by Colin Campbell.
Everything about the Alberta oil sands development is impossibly big. Monster-sized trucks and giant excavators are carving up hundreds of square kilometres of land, thousands of kilometres of pipelines and roads have been laid, and millions of litres of water are being super-heated to process millions of tonnes of rock and sand.
The best students of peak oil currently put the peak somewhere between last December and 1,500 days hence. Moreover, Hezbollah vs. Israel has an excellent potential to spin out of control resulting at best in a significant reduction in Middle East oil exports.
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
The top 14 oil exporting states experienced high economic growth in 2005 and the first half of 2006, leading to high domestic consumption of oil. The rates of increase in oil consumption are in the high single digits or low double digits in all top exporting countries except Norway.
