Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil for delivery in 5 years rises on supply concern /
E Magazine special issue on Peak Oil /
World Watch Magazine special issue on Peak Oil /
Conservatives: America must end its dependence on oil /
Liberals: Securing our energy future /
Malta: oil end game
Kuwait, long regarded as home to some of the world’s largest reserves of petroleum, may possess only half the amount of oil reserves that it officially has been stating for many years.
Kuwait: Oil reserves ‘report is not accurate’ /
Lester Brown’s book covers “Beyond the Oil Peak” /
Daily Kos on the countdown to 100$ oil – long term vs short term worries /
Deffeyes speech /
Paul Mobbs: Energy Beyond Oil /
Kunstler: Two peckerheads /
Peak Oil event with Heinberg in Ukiah, CA
The proposed Iranian oil bourse is of very little economic consequence.
OPEC producer Kuwait’s oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
…”One major challenge in maintaining, let alone increasing, oil production capacity was Iraq’s battle with water cut, especially in the south,” said the EIA report referring to the excess effluent water produced with each barrel of crude.
Long (10,000 word) and frank article adapted from the book, “Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis”. Makes the problem case well, views will differ on his optimistic take on potential of renewables.
UK MEP demands EU statement on ‘peak oil’ /
Independent: bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out /
BBC on energy depletion, alternative fuels & food security /
Canada’s former Governor General on peak oil /
Kunstler’s backroad trip
The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire.
Petrotheism (animation) /
Peak oil summary for Australia /
Irish Times on unsustainable consumption /
Oil output will depend on investment, not reserves: CGES /
Dave Room (GPM) & Kirstin Miller (eco-cities) on KPFA /
Peak oil advocates shoot themselves in foot
New strategy for peak oil blogging / Chevron: WillYouJoinUs Report / Over the Peak / Planning For the Peak / Norway Sees Dip in 2006 Oil Production /
Find a couple of spare planets or face global oil war / Professor warns about implications of Peak Oil
It’s a good time to review — looking backwards at what we learned in 2005 and forward at what might be in store for 2006.
