US: Lawmakers Want Daylight-Saving Time Change
A House committee voted on Wednesday to expand U.S. daylight-saving time by two months to help reduce energy consumption, but rejected a plan to shave total U.S. oil demand by 1 million barrels a day.
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Current food production system due for collapse
World grain yield fell for four successive years from 2000 to 2003, bringing reserves to the lowest in thirty years… The Independent Science Panel (ISP) and the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) are launching a Sustainable World initiative to engage with all sectors of civil society to make our food production system truly sustainable.
A spike in prices, a peak to output – will oil be the downfall of global growth?
What we cannot see is whether this expansionary phase [will be] stifled by an oil squeeze, by a more general burst of inflation, by a loss of confidence in the markets, or conceivably by a trade war. What we can see is that oil at over $50 a barrel is an amber light, and were it to rise to over $100, the light would flip to red.
Goodbye To All That Oil
The peak oil idea – which says that world oil production will go into irreversible decline sometime in the next decade or two – is quickly morphing into conventional wisdom.
Peak Oil UK – entering the age of oil depletion
A conference will be held in Edinburgh April 25 to discuss the impending peak then decline in global oil production and its implications for the UK.
Superspike report raises questions
A widely reported briefing by US investment house Goldman Sachs alerted markets to the possibility of an oil price superspike – a spike as high as $105 per barrel.Yet the full report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, paints a more complex and volatile picture.
Oil Price Stoke Push for Policy
Congress begins work Tuesday on a bill to boost production and conservation.
Avoiding the Energy Issue
A bad program with serious design flaws is threatening to crash the whole energy system. Do we choose to fix it or not?
New Zealand: No easy solutions in sight to keep oil prices in check
During the debate about the 5c-a-litre rise in petrol excise, politicians and commentators have suggested deferring the increase until oil prices stabilise at lower levels. No one, however, has been able to offer a valid reason why prices should come down.
The Great Phase Transition: The Post-oil Era
Jorge Figueiredo argues that Peak Oil will exacerbate a crisis in capitalism, and the as yet unwritten result could either be fascistic or ‘revolutionary’.
IEA warns against possible acute oil shortage
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has come to the conclusion that the world economy is facing a serious threat of acute oil shortage.
Video: Rep. Bartlett’s Peak Oil Presentation to the US Congress
[UPDATE APR 9 – new date for next speech] On the 14th March Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett made a presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress. Online video of the presentation and a text version with graphics are now available. Rep. Bartlett will be giving a second presentation on solutions in about a week.
