ODAC Newsletter – 23 May 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Transportation
Transport – May 23
Cheap flights boom over, says BA chief
Crisis for US airlines as oil prices defy gravity
Ford cuts production, moves back profit goal
Why bikes are a sustainable wonder
Australia – May 23
Time for the price of fuel to rise above politics
No silver bullet for fuel prices: Rudd
How petrol is putting Sydney under the pump
Hard times – May 23
Economic tide is rising for repo man
If $4 gas is bad, just wait
Oil threatens to pile ÂŁ700 onto average fuel bill
High prices won’t stop the world growing
Consumers cut driving but not diets: poll
Cars – May 23
Is Japan facing a post-car society?
Ford’s Mulally calls pickup retreat `fundamental’
Hybrid sales are zooming
Gas prices shorten trips for U.S. Memorial Day
Air travel – May 23
Airlines face battle for survival
9 airlines face threat of a credit downgrade
Airlines and alternative fuel
Byron King: Silent spring for aviation
United Kingdom – May 22
Road policy oil assumptions attacked ($70 a barrel in 2020!)
Put UK airport expansion on hold, demands green group
Erosion of Britain’s peatlands
Solutions – May 22
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Air travel downsizing – May 21
Oil price forces American Airlines to scrap 75 planes
American Airlines’ plan to save the planet
Airlines’ cuts making cities no-fly zones
American to charge for 1st checked bag, cut flights
Suburbia and cars – May 20
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Jamais Cascio: The suburban question
The American car culture is running out of gas
Don’t buy that new Prius! Test-drive a used car instead
Food & agriculture – May 19
Growing pains for farmers
World’s poor pay price as crop research is cut
California farm exporters face shipping squeeze
Fears over Victoria’s food security
Climate change threatens French truffle
Confusing, arbitrary rules hinder local farmers
Dysfunction – May 19
Flying cars
The Surge (in lame excuses)
When cars compete with people for food
