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Fossil Fuel Headlines – 8 August, 2005

December 15, 2020August 5, 2005 by Staff

The crystal ball, though murky, is not empty / A half-truth is still a lie / Transcript of Matt Simmons online interview / US targets oil in Africa / Pemex spending on exploration rising, but infrastructure probs catching up / Kerr-McGee to exit North Sea / Howard seizes Northern Territory uranium / Why America Is More Dependent Than Ever on Saudi Arabia / Arab oil producers to increase production: OAPEC / Opec production level hits 26-year high / EU offering to back Iran as major oil route -France / Prices push out premium gasoline / Now anybody can bet on gas prices / Airlines add routes to where the oil is

New group: ASPO-USA

December 15, 2020August 2, 2005 by Steve Andrews et al.

Details of an upcoming Peak Oil conference in Denver organised by a new group: ASPO USA, a non-profit, non-partisan educational association “to study, communicate, mitigate and otherwise respond to the impending Peak Oil phenomenon”.

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 2 August, 2005

December 15, 2020August 1, 2005 by Staff

ASPO August Newsletter / Oil Supplies and the “Infallible” Goddess of the Marketplace / Kuntsler on Yergin / Get ready for return of the bad ’70s / Malaysia: Cut air-conditioner usage / King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies / Long-lived the kings / Appetite for destruction
Our voracious oil consumption corrupts mideast policy / Energy Bill Raises Fears About Pollution, Fraud, Critics Point to Perks for Industry / Democrats and the energy bill / Energy bill criticized as lacking new policy / An energy policy about half right

How to avoid oil wars, terrorism, and economic collapse

December 15, 2020August 1, 2005 by Richard Heinberg

…the global peak in oil production is likely to lead to economic chaos and extreme geopolitical tensions, raising the spectres of war, revolution, terrorism, and even famine, unless nations adopt some method of cooperatively reducing their reliance on oil. The Oil Depletion Protocol provides a way forward…

Peak Oil and the Curse of Cassandra

December 15, 2020July 31, 2005 by Jamais Cascio

…the peak oil Cassandras — Kunstler included — are perfectly positioned to trigger the kind of anxiety-induced focus needed to accelerate a move away from petroleum dependence.

Saudi oil and the world economy

December 15, 2020July 31, 2005 by Live Online staff

Matthew Simmons, an oil industry analyst and CEO of Simmons & Company International, will be online Thursday, August 4, at 3 p.m. ET to discuss Saudi oil supplies.

Second U.S. Conference on Peak Oil

December 15, 2020July 31, 2005 by Staff

The Second U.S. conference on “Peak Oil” and Community Solutions will be held September 23-25, 2005, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The Ghost of Colonel Drake

December 15, 2020July 30, 2005 by Byron W. King

The life and times of Col. Edwin Drake, who drilled the world’s first commercial oil well near Titusville, PA in 1859. It is not overstating the case to say that the seed of the modern world, so dependent as it is upon energy and materials derived from petroleum, was planted by Col. Drake.

Oil: A Hole In The Ground

December 15, 2020July 30, 2005 by Byron W. King

The first oil wells, paraffin and President Lincoln.

The Last Foot of Rail, the End of the Line

December 15, 2020July 30, 2005 by Byron W. King

Using the Trans Canada Railroad as an analogy, King recounts the timeline of geologic history up to the present. Within the span of the last few inches of a 4,500 mile timeline, humankind will have consumed all of the Earth’s oil heritage.

Peak Oil: Geology Is Destiny

December 15, 2020July 30, 2005 by Byron W. King

Peak Oil is a real phenomenon, based on hard science. Ignore it at your peril. At root, the Peak Oil guys are right. How can I emphasize it properly? OK, they are “right, right, right.” Everybody else is “wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Ohio was once oil king, but production peaked in 1896

December 15, 2020July 30, 2005 by John Kuehner

An oil boom swept across the Ohio River when John Newton and Mophet Dye struck oil in 1860 in Macksburg, just north of Marietta…Hundreds of wooden derricks soon poked the Ohio skyline as petroleum speculators and businessmen drilled deep into the ground searching for black gold.