Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
Oilmen in troubled waters /
Power shifts to countries with oil reserves /
ASPO-5 Conference Program released /
Staniford: 2005 Advancers and Decliners
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
“…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 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
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?
The growing scarcity of oil and natural gas has provoked worldwide political conflict and a mad rush for renewable resources.
“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.”
The Texas oil industry knows all about peak oil, because we’ve already gone through it.
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.
Even in a very optimistic scenario Canada’s oil sands will not prevent Peak Oil. If a crash program were immediately implemented it may only barely offset the combined declining conventional crude oil production in Canada and the North Sea. (Study from Uppsala University, Sweden)
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.
