Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
In the interview of Daniel Yergin by Tom Ashbrook, on Point Radio, one of the giants of the opposition to the Peak Oil theory stood forward.
Only after listening to the interview, I got the feeling that not only did he not understand the theory, it’s premises, or even its full assertions and facts, but that he hadn’t really given it enough gravity to even study it. Perhaps he “wiki’d” it. Further, I got the feeling that he was run on high octane optimism mixed with a small amount of BS.
The Sept 26 conference was covered in CSPAN, local news and broadcast outlets and Peak Oil blogs.
Speaker: Engineer/author John Howe. General question-and-answer session.
Transcript of the Sept 26 energy conference held in Maryland. This section focuses on the nature of the problem, with talks by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, Dr. Kenneth Deffeyes, Matthew Simmons and Richard Heinberg.
