Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades’ worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Rob Hopkins talks us through how he helped turn one small town onto the problem of Peak Oil, and how together they created a profoundly positive and practical community plan to deal with it.
Hurricane Rita has caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in history and will force companies to delay drilling for oil in the US and as far away as the Middle East, initial damage assessments show
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Matthew Simmons and James Kunstler are coming to Dallas November 1 to share their vision of oil’s future and how we can adapt and plan for a new era of energy use and sustainable development.
No one knows how much is left, but humankind can’t wait any longer before coming up with alternatives…I have now read 4,000 pages of reports on global oil supply, and I know less about it than I did before I started. The only firm conclusion I have reached is that the people sitting on the world’s reserves are liars.
Good discussion of the dominant worldview in America and some sobering ideas of where we might be headed, and how it may be the best thing for us.
Peak Oil conferences in Yellow Springs Ohio (Sept 23-25), Frederick, Maryland (Sept 26) and New York City (Oct 5).
“Oil is like a girlfriend, you know from the beginning that one day she’s going to leave you,” is how Mr Birol sums up the situation. “If you don’t want your heart broken, you’d better leave her before she leaves you.”
Kenneth Deffeyes, former colleague of M. king Hubbert, frequently tells the story of how he knew Hubbert was right about his US oil peak prediction when he read the headline “Texas Railroad Commission announces 100% allowable” in 1971. The American cartel was pumping full blast.
I wonder what he thought when he read this headline…
MYTH NO. 3: We’re running out of oil.
REALITY: This one is true. Sort of. Unlike wind or water, oil is not a renewable resource. So by definition we’re using it up, in the same way that we are all dying all the time. …
The real problem with the peak-oil argument has less to do with engineering than with philosophy. It lacks imagination.
Can global civilization adapt successfully to degradation of the biosphere and depletion of fossil fuels? I argue that it cannot. …
I conclude that those who seek to preserve civilization should plan for its survival in restricted regions.
