Ireland’s ‘Hirsch Report’ Released
Ireland is among the most sensitive nations to rising oil prices and therefore will be among the most vulnerable post-peak. Rob Hopkin’s take on the Forfas report on the impacts of peak oil on the Irish economy.
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James Woolsey, hemp advocate
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
Open letter to Texas newspapers about peak oil: ‘Why aren’t you listening?’
The US media have two choices regarding the Peak Oil issue. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, you can now have either your honor or the status quo. If you do nothing regarding Peak Oil, you will soon have neither the status quo nor your honor.
Other energy – Apr 4
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
Peak oil – Apr 3
‘There’s no planet B’ (UK comedian Robert Newman interview) /
Heinberg in Peoria /
African Union: ‘Era of cheap oil is over’
Other energy – Apr 3
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
Energy modeler speaks to U.S. Senate
A Stanford study estimated that the odds of a foreign oil disruption happening over the next 10 years are about 80 percent. As a general rule, strategies that reduce our dependence on oil consumption are more effective than policies that reduce our imports.
Other energy – Mar 31
Americans at “tipping point” about energy – poll /
Yankelovich on tipping points in “Foreign Affairs” /
Whipple: Gas prices rising! /
Bulls from the sea: ancient oil industries
Peak oil – Mar 30
Canadian tar sands: the good, the bad and the ugly /
Orion interviews with Kunstler /
Global Public Media: Jan Bosak, Ray Anderson, Simmons, Ireland and PO /
La Fin Du Petrole (Oil No More) on Australia TV April 1 /
Recent PO publications in Dutch
Peak oil – Mar 29
The global oil disaster scenario /
Global Public Media: Savinar, Maori Party, Bartlett, Cooke, Wright, more /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango)
Carbon: too much, not too little
Suppose that availabilty of oil is going to decline to levels far below those of today. The question is, so what? The US has enough easily accessible coal to supply hundreds of years of consumption at current rates, and the same is true of the rest of the world.
NYT: Bush’s $28 billion giveaway to oil companies
Recent executive decisions, and smart use by oil companies in lawsuits of ambiguous wording of the applicable laws, threaten to leave up to two thirds of Gulf of Mexico gas production paying no taxes, at a loss to taxpayers of $28 billion, according to the New York Times.
