Is Our Collective Oil Dependence an Addiction? Further Reflections on the Matter …
What can we learn from innovative approaches to addiction that might prove to be useful tools for weaning communities off oil? Reader feedback and further thoughts.
Oil
Other energy – June 16
Diversify: Solar power for the Gulf /
Top five oil companies focus on developing existing reserves /
2006 version of BP Statistical Review of World Energy /
Canada wrests oil from sands, but at what cost? /
China: Oil giants plan to cut exports
Peak Oil – Jun 16
Oilmen in troubled waters /
Power shifts to countries with oil reserves /
ASPO-5 Conference Program released /
Staniford: 2005 Advancers and Decliners
Energy crisis and economic collapse – Jun 16
Why the Dollar Bubble is about to Burst (Iranian Bourse) /
The Greater Depression /
Discrepancies in US accounts hide $2,700bn black hole /
UK: Soaring energy costs bust inflation target /
GAO warns U.S. vulnerable to oil cutoff /
High cost of oil could put many jobs at risk
Energy and the economy
“…the supply-demand fundamentals seem consistent with the view now taken by market participants that the days of persistently cheap oil and natural gas are likely behind us.”
Peak Oil – Jun 15
Peak Oil 2010 /
The Real Black Gold (Peak Oil and Coal) /
`Era of cheap energy is over’ – Gazprom /
Oil Plateau Continues /
Simmons on CNN /
‘Heinberg on Peak Oil’ on Free Speech TV
Environment – June 15
Night flights twice as bad for environment / Hungry polar bears turning to cannibalism / Global warming ‘threat to Asian security’ – grim scenario of disease and disaster / Canada wrests oil from sands, but at what cost?
Global Energy Crisis Cooks to Surface
The growing scarcity of oil and natural gas has provoked worldwide political conflict and a mad rush for renewable resources.
Al Gore: we’re at or near peak oil
“We almost certainly are at or near what they call peak oil, defined as having recovered a majority of the oil reserves at a certain price, affordability range.”
Has oil peaked?: Yes
The Texas oil industry knows all about peak oil, because we’ve already gone through it.
Implications of Fossil Fuel Dependence for the Food System
Our current industrialized food system is not sustainable due to it’s over dependence on non-renewable fossil fuel energy and it’s degradation of the natural systems on which it depends for its existence.
The G forces of energy insecurity
The foundation for a possible ‘Perfect Storm’ is a combination of factors that have coalesced to achieve a paradigm shift from the pre- and post-Cold War period of energy security to a new long-term era of 21st century energy insecurity. These factors are “the G Forces of Energy Insecurity”: Growth, Geology, Geopolitics, Guerrillas, Global Warming & Green Energy.
