How Long Will Cheap Oil Last?
Some experts express even greater concern and caution that oil may run short much sooner than the IEA forecasts.
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Oil pinch threatens to bring changes
If oil production is about to peak, America’s transportation-dependent economy appears
headed for a crippling crisis in coming decades.
Finite fuels threaten life as we know it
If predictions are correct, no future generation will forget 2005 – the year the world began eating into the second half of its oil reserves. Interview with Pr. David Goodstein.
US: Oil still tops for beating the cold
Rather than seeking alternatives to heating with oil — the cost of which has increased by 31 percent — folks this year are finding thrifty, creative ways to keep warm air in and cold air out, area retailers say.
Audio: Geopolitics and Moonshine: Peak Oil and Community Solutions (Part 1)
Second set of audio recordings from the First US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, this time featuring Pat Murphy on the geopolitics of oil and permaculturist David Blume on home grown ethanol production.
Fuelish choices – Expanding hybrid choices can slow slide to oil’s end
In October, International Truck & Engine Corp. announced plans to help build diesel-electric hybrid industrial trucks that consume 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and release fewer toxic emissions. The upward movement of oil prices at the pump can be explained by a theory called Hubbert’s Peak.
Energy Supply and Pricing for a Sustainable Future
The reality is, that for all the paper wealth being generated by the so-called knowledge-based economy, Canada’s entire post-industrial economy still floats on an ‘old economy’ pool of oil and gas.
All For Oil
The momentous challenge facing the Bush Administration and America is the very real danger to the continuing supply of America’s very lifeblood: oil.
Clarifying the Hubbert model
A useful clarification of the strengths and limitations of Hubberts model of oil depletion, with concise references to flaws of ‘cornucopian’ arguments.
Big three to fight `Asian premium’ on Saudi oil sales
China, Japan and South Korea are mounting a new combined challenge to the “Asian premium”, long a scourge of regional oil-importing economies.
Canadian natural gas reserves continue to fall despite record drilling activity
Canada’s known natural gas reserves continue to decline even though a record number of wells were drilled in 2003, the energy industry announced Thursday.
How secure is Saudi oil?
Though oil prices have retreated from their record highs of October, a terrorist attack on oil installations in Saudi Arabia could send them soaring to new heights, according to a leading industry analyst.
