BBC poll on what to cover: Vote Peak Oil!
BBC Online are holding a poll on which story readers want to see more coverage of.
Oil
How oil is changing the world
The world’s thirst is not sustainable as experts predict an imminent decline and fall in oil production. In this seven-day series, the Globe investigates what awaits the world as the reserves dry up.
Ed: BIGGEST COVERAGE OF PEAK OIL YET in a mainstream publication. More than a dozen articles appear on the first day of the series.
Oil, Jihad and Destiny: Will declining oil production plunge our planet into a Depression?
Since neither production nor consumption have historically followed a smooth curve – up or down – and since there is an economic interaction between demand, consumption and production, we should expect the peak of consumption to be characterized by a series of alternating cycles. Periods of shortage will be separated by periods of surplus. [Chapters 1 and 2 of Ronald Cooke’s Oil, Jihad and Destiny]
Reversing the Polarity – Bretton Woods revisited?
… The requirement is therefore for an Energy “Clearing Union” comprising all market participant constituencies whether producers, consumers or intermediaries, constituted as an “International Energy Trade Association” (“IETA”) and served by a consortium of providers of services such as communications, technology, risk management and so on.
U.S. places large bet on pipeline
American-backed plans to build a nearly 1,100-mile-long oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean are about to go from what skeptics once called a “pipe dream” to a reality.
Laherrère: Peak in 2008
A critical evaluation of M. King Hubbert and a projection of 2008 as the year of Peak Oil in this confernence paper by Jean Laherrère.
Billion barrel baby–But is it enough?
You might think that the last thing on the mind of someone sitting on a newly discovered billion-barrel oil find would be alternative fuels. You would be wrong.
Italy sent troops to Iraq to secure oil deal: report
ROME – Italian troops were sent to Iraq to secure oil deals worth 300 billion dollars, and not just for post-war humanitarian purposes, an Italian television report by RAI claimed on Friday.
Audio: Looking Beyond Oil for Energy
An hour long Peak Oil radio program featuring ASPO president Kjell Alekett, Blood and Oil author Michael Klare and American Petroleum Institute chief economist, John Felmy.
USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan, promises $100mil for Caspian guard
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Azerbaijan (an Asian republic of the former USSR) on April 12th. It became Rumsfeld’s second visit to the republic in four months — that is why it can hardly be treated as a formal visit of no particular importance.
Transcript: Fourth Peak Oil Presentation by US Congressman Bartlett, collegues.
The Fourth Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, accompanied by Rep.’s Ehlers, Gilchrest, Inglis, and Wamp.
$4 a gallon
America is over. America is like Wile E. Coyote after he’s run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he’ll take a few more steps in midair before he looks down. Then, when he sees that there’s nothing under him, he’ll fall. Many Americans suspect that they’re running on thin air, but they haven’t looked down yet. When they do …
