The Politics of Peak Oil and Fascism
At the recent “Peak Oil UK” conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, one attendee stood out from the usual peak oil crowd: Nick Griffin, chairman of the far-right British National Party.
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Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy (Commentary)
Hitting all the points in a noted GOP pollster’s playbook, the President’s plan is driven by politics not policy. Worse, it won’t cut oil dependency.
A Community Solution to Peak Oil: An interview with Megan Quinn
Megan Quinn is the Outreach Director of Community Service, Inc. Community Service is a non-profit organization founded in 1940 that has advocated for small, local communities as the most fulfilling, healthy way to live. Its lastest program, The Community Solution, seeks to bring about the re-emergence of the small community and a more agrarian, low energy-use way of life, as the solution for “Peak Oil.”
Experts highlight oil supply problems
A conference on oil supply difficulties just held in Edinburgh, Scotland, witnessed a lively a debate about supply and demand in energy markets.
Pricey Oil’s Path to Your Pocket
Well before crude hits $100 a barrel, retail prices would soar, and stalled consumer spending will likely weigh down the economy (Special report on $100/barrel oil)
Richard Heinberg on megaprojects update
Can the world’s new oil projects match demand? Richard Heinberg comments on Skrebowski’s latest Oilfields Megaprojects Report and its implications for local and global security (or lack of it) and discusses the need for relocalization.
Timing is everything
There were two possibly significant energy events yesterday, Crown Prince Abdullah’s trip to Texas, and The Oil Depletion Conference in Scotland. Unfortunately it does not appear as though much that was new transpired at either.
Production theory could make $100 oil a reality
…Mr. Groppe is not so much a fan of such history as a witness to it. He is 79, landed in the oil and petrochemicals industry in 1946 and became an oil consultant in 1955… That probably makes him the oldest active oil guru in the United States. The man knows a thing or two about oil production and prices and what he will tell you in his charming Texas drawl isn’t pretty: The “peak oil” theory is no theory, son — it’s happening.
Gas goes up; thinking cap goes on
Lifestyle changes — including how we drive, where we shop and how we invest — can ease the squeeze as the world’s oil supply shrinks
Experts hear oil depletion fear
The world’s oil reserves are running out much faster than industry and governments are admitting, a conference in Edinburgh has been told.
Analyst fears global oil crisis in three years
One of the world’s leading energy analysts yesterday called for an independent assessment of global oil reserves because he believed that Middle Eastern countries may have far less than officially stated and that oil prices could double to more than $100 a barrel within three years, triggering economic collapse.
No extra oil as Saudis cite full capacity
United States President George W. Bush has failed in his effort to get the Saudi Government to increase oil production in the near term. The Saudi Government has said there is nothing it can do because its production is already at or near full capacity, and that the long-term solution to the oil price problem is for the US to increase its investment in refining capacity.
