Looking through peak oil lenses
Once a person assimilates the idea that peak oil and its consequences are imminent, it radically changes one’s world outlook. Nearly every issue one confronts will be affected by peak oil.
Politics
Other energy – Apr 4
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
Peak oil – Apr 1
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
Other energy – Mar 31
Americans at “tipping point” about energy – poll /
Yankelovich on tipping points in “Foreign Affairs” /
Whipple: Gas prices rising! /
Bulls from the sea: ancient oil industries
Other energy – Mar 23
Royal Society energy conference in London April 10-11 /
Gallup: Public sees alternative fuels as wave of future /
Oil majors plan to spend more as costs soar /
Russia signs gas deal with China /
Friedman: some conservatives have a new grip on [energy] reality
Peak oil – Mar 22
Interview: Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips (“American Theocracy”) /
CNN’s “We Were Warned”: the bright side /
Jitters about energy, debt and the housing market /
Anarchism and the peak oil argument /
Food, sustainability, and the environmentalists /
Investments based on peak oil? – yes
George W. Bush and Peak Oil: Beyond Incompetence
While it would be difficult to create an airtight legal case for impeaching George W. Bush based on his ignoring the very real threat posed by Peak Oil, nevertheless I believe that his actions—and inaction—in this regard constitute dereliction of duty on an unprecedented scale.
The oil is going, the oil is going!
Today’s Paul Reveres of “peak oil” aren’t waiting for Washington to save us from apocalypse. They’re already planting gardens and drafting city plans for the days when oil is gone. [Favorable article on the peak oil movement.]
Energy: a burning issue for foreign policy
Speech by the British Ambassador to the United States. He concludes: “energy is central to our foreign policy because it is central to national security. Wherever we look, problems are energy driven. The imperative to collaborate may now be as strong as that which forced us to build collective security structures during the Cold War…This is not a problem that can wait ten years.”
Politics & economics – Mar 20
“American Theocracy” by Kevin Phillips: clear and present dangers /
GM: 2005 loss to be $2 billion higher /
India thanks with oil pledge for uranium /
Dubai construction craze (photos)
Politics & economics – Mar 8
Oil producers reach for more power /
The Middle East after the oil: evolve or die /
Alaska rural-to-urban trend may be linked to high fuel prices /
Oil exporters can help trade balance-Treasury paper /
The India Bush didn’t see /
Venezuela boosts oil rigs, not enough to raise output
The coming resource wars
In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over land, water and energy.
