Peak Oil Review – Sept 29
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– The bailout
– Gasoline shortages
– Venezuela and its friends
– Briefs
Politics
Solutions, solutions, solutions: Motivating college students, and the future of ASPO-USA
“Young people are turned off by the doom and gloom that comes with haggling over the peak date and imagining how difficult and different life will be on the other side of Hubbert’s curve. We believe you when you say it’s going to peak, and those who don’t will when it’s properly explained. We don’t need to be converted, we need to be motivated.”
Deep Thought – Sept 29
The new sage of Wall Street: author of The Black Swan
Reinventing Reality (or Collapse Sandwich) – Orlov and Pinchbeck (podcast)
Portland Freedom Tribe 2010: from Palin to Paradise
A crash course
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has earnestly explained this past week that bad lending practices are the No. 1 cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system. What would he prefer to have as the primary cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system?
Peak oil in the New South Wales parliament
“New South Wales and Sydney’s over-reliance on petrol makes us extremely vulnerable to impacts [of peak oil], and we must protect current and future generations.”
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 26
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Crisis of Confidence
Be it be peak oil, climate change, cigarettes, coal, the state of the economy or the latest toothpaste, we are constantly being lied to.
I can imagine the offices of Wall Street ringing with the song “Happy Days Are Here Again”. Sometimes, the most dangerous lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
Coal – Sept 24
Africa’s hard black gold
Labour conference: John Hutton criticised for comments on coal fired power stations
Obama declares support for ‘clean’ coal
United Kingdom – Sept 24
Mayor wants to close Heathrow
British public ‘unwilling’ to pay for climate change bill
It needn’t cost the earth
United States & Canada – Sept 23
Carbon tax? How about a Carbon Dividend?
US companies see climate risk, but lack plan
McCain and Obama supporters largely agree on approaches to energy, climate change
Persuasion – Sept 22
NY State Senator Klein to meet with No Impact Man about making NYC streets livable
A Speech for the Next President
Self-doubts paralyze activists
