Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Vampire memo” reveals coal industry plan for massive propaganda blitz /
Power group promoting global warming skeptic / Hey NASA, what about us? / Interview with Revkin of NY TImes / Carbon credits for the Joneses: UK politician advocates domestic emissions allowance.
Where will big oil’s big profits go? / Big Oil: booming profits, climbing costs /
Shell shocked / European heat wave shows limits of nuclear energy
Our wasteful ways will finish us off / William A. McDonough talk: Designing the next industrial revolution / Welcome to “braided” time /
David Korten and Joanna Macy: the great turning – from empire to earth community
The risk-premium concept is, in my opinion, the convenient smoke-screen used to prevent discussion of the real issue: this is a supply and demand driven problem, and we are rapidly approaching or passing peak oil. (Seeking feedback on an economic argument)
And to their shock, the car companies built probably the most advanced car Detroit ever built, and the most maintenance-free car. And when all the car companies were forced to do it, they realized that it threatened their business model. It also threatened the oil industry. So they wanted to dismantle it. (Wide-ranging discussion on many energy issues.)
A Russian view of energy tensions /
Military move on Iran could triple oil price-Saudi /
Gas redistribution in Eurasia /
China’s first foray into Russian oil / Oil firms debate Gulf leases /
Exxon Mobil CEO calls for an end to ethanol subsidies
Peak Oil passnotes: the oil wave ripples / A Megaproject list from the “Oil and Gas Journal” / The most powerful force on earth (population & inflation) / Foreign oil woes drive trend toward deepwater drilling / Swiss television journalist Basil Gelpke on his new 90-minute PO documentary
Iran grants Lukoil rights on oilfield exploitation / Looming energy crisis requires new ‘Manhattan Project’: US scientists / Popular Science: 10 steps to end America’s fossil-fuel addiction / “Oil shale development imminent” (skepticism) / Heads of Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron on Meet The Press
Korea: addicted to oil /
Urgency picks up for oil alternatives in Australia / Thailand – an energy case study / Nate Hagens – ecological economics and fossil fuels /
We are cutting energy use – but it is dirtier (BP report) / Oil-supply anxiety overblown, BP chief says
Night flights twice as bad for environment / Hungry polar bears turning to cannibalism / Global warming ‘threat to Asian security’ – grim scenario of disease and disaster / Canada wrests oil from sands, but at what cost?
Chevron CEO doesn’t see oil crisis looming /
China: ‘Three-nos’ call to help save energy / Energy price increase is good news for China / India: Left holds countrywide protests against fuel price hike / Debunking nuclear myth of greenhouse friendliness
The other night Bill O’Reilly expounded on the price of gasoline. He wants to boycott Exxon Mobil because he believes the company is charging too much for its gasoline. And besides, the company makes too much money. Nonsense. Bill, You have spun into orbit.
