Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
US energy bill OKd in raucous vote /
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group /
Gas row between China and Japan escalates /
Boom times await new BRIC powers /
Fool shortage? Not in Georgia /
US revs up the China threat /
Chavez interview – has ‘strong oil card’ /
High oil prices met with anger worldwide /
Pombo proposes offshore drilling
Report from the Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
Speeches and reports from the Petrocollapse conference held in NYC Oct 5: Ruppert, Kunstler, Darnell, Lundberg.
Washington DC and Peak Oil /
Peak-oil scenario fuels “go local” campaign in Vermont /
Unraveling the gas ‘conspiracy’ /
International Energy Agency confronts PO /
Philadelphia Church of God on PO /
October ASPO newsletter /
PIMCO: Got energy? /
Oz Greens call for inquiry into oil supply /
Happy birthday M. King Hubbert /
Vancouver: Running on empty /
Big names in Texas PO roundtable /
Syriana: the next oil awareness movie
After you discover oil, you can only produce it out of the ground one time… You have depleted the pores of the rocks, emptying them of the oil and gas that were formerly contained within. There is no “inflation” when it comes to the supply of oil. There is only depletion.
While al Husseini’s comments about when peak oil might hit us are more optimistic than those of ASPO-Ireland and a host of others, they certainly strike a vastly more realistic chord than the typical fare from Saudi Aramco press releases and presentations.
Solid roundup that manages to sneak in a mention of oil depletion; worth reading if only for the quote from Tony Radich of the US Dept. Energy, told The Business: “It looks like ethanol is going to be the biggest alternative fuel. We’ve got a long way to go on hydrogen. …”
With global oil reserves set to run out within decades, governments must act now to avoid an energy crisis of indescribable proportions.
High time for a single GCC currency / Russian oil producers to freeze gasoline prices until year-end / Fueled again / Rupiah ills and oil costs eat into Indofood profits / Was Jimmy Carter right? / Being President in an Age of Limits
Adam Fenderson meets the man who predicts the end of life as we know it, and comes away feeling strangely optimistic. Also: a conference devoted to Peak Oil, where the mood was positive, and offered a sense of opportunity.
Heinberg and Staniford / The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett’s Conference / Triple J Radio Australia covers peak oil / Jack Zagar on Saudi oil production and peak / A Nice Counterexample [of Hubbert Linearization] / Organizing Ecological Revolution / Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drives it back into steam age / The Five Minute Guide: Oil
Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference (Sunday) / A peek at Peak Oil, Inc. / Matt Simmons Issues a Wake Up Call / Apollo Alliance update / Peaknik and Doomer make WikiPedia
