Peak oil – May 18
What Stern got wrong (ignoring peak oil)
Tool for understanding gas prices: This Week in Petroleum
Exxon’s risk-averse stock-buyback strategy is the new profit model
Peak oil now? New data leads to speculation
Energy Infrastructure
Oil industry – May 15
Moving oil and gasoline is a dangerous business
Shell exec: Oil prices could continue to rise
Electrifying change
The electricity industry is building momentum toward its next evolutionary leap — to an electronically-enabled electric grid delivering digital-quality power. This shift … will have the most profound effect on the electricity industry in its history.
Gas and oil – May 6
Is U.S. natural gas headed toward excess supply?
Where gasoline is cheap
Interview with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil On the Brain
Oil Industry – Mar 20
PetroChina Co posts record profit
BP says oil and gas recovery crucial
Safety chief ‘terrified’ by culture at BP plant
Gulf governments plan oil pipelines
Houston’s role in energy evolves
Angola, oil industry darling
Renewables – Mar 8
What’s So Bad About Big?
PG&E sees power in North Coast waves
Analysis: Nile Basin energy future
Green energy deals ‘mislead customers’
Oil industry – Feb 11
Russian about going nowhere
Venezuela tries to attract nore oil rigs
Shell commercial: No easy oil any more
Oil companies open up at CERA conference
Exxon Mobil warms up to climate issue
Energy international – Jan 9
Belarus cuts off Russian oil to Europe
Intl oil groups face new terms in Venezuela
Energy independence – S. America’s dream
Resource wars (leftist analysis)
France consumes less electricity in 2006
Collapse – Jan 9
Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes
Climate change killed off dynasties in China, Mexico
Apocalypto: a movie review
The ripening
I sat excitedly at the speakers’ table for the press conference unveiling the Southern California Association of Governments’ (SCAG) 2006 State of the Region Report. The usual group of reporters, both print and broadcast was there. I had spent many hours formulating responses to anticipated questions regarding my remarks and the inclusion of an important new section acknowledging “peak oil.” (Debbie Cook is Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Huntington Beach)
Hydrogen – Dec 24
Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense
What’s wrong with hydrogen
Lovins: 20 hydrogen myths
Cuba’s strange path
Cuba has become the poster child for a transition away from an agricultural economy based on fossil fuel inputs and for a society focused on self-sufficiency. Strangely, it may owe much of its success in this regard to its relative backwardness and its isolation from the world community.