Plan now for a world without oil
It is hard to envisage the effects of a radically reduced oil supply on a modern economy or society, writes Michael Meacher, UK environment minister from 1997 to June 2003.
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The Global Record (excerpt)
The gap between the promise of petroleum wealth and the perversity of its performance is enormous. Study after study demonstrates that, as a group, countries dependent on oil as their leading export have performed worse than other developing countries on a variety of economic indicators.
Fueling Conflict
PetroPolitics Special Report: More than any other commodity, oil is the lifeblood of modern economies and the engine of military machines.
Fiction: Sixty Days, Next Year
Fiction: You’ll have to excuse me, but I don’t usually keep a diary. These events began before I understood what was happening, and where it was all headed. It was only later, after it was all going on, that I thought that maybe I should be keeping some sort of record–as if no one else was. We live in The Information Age, or did. Now it’s just The Dim Ages. Welcome to my world.
The Bottom of the Barrel
Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it.
Cuba-A Hope
The Cuban experience with an artifical ‘oil peak’ gives some hope for how a society can re-organise around organic agriculture to avoid the worst possible consequences.
What was there in the famous “Report to the Club of Rome” ? (excerpt)
Looking back and correcting some of the misconceptions about the 1972 “Report to the Club of Rome.”
Eating Fossil Fuels
As Peak Oil and its effects become a raging national controversy it’s time everyone reads the story that puts the most serious implications of Peak Oil and Gas into perspective. Your biggest problem is not that your SUV might go hungry, it’s that you and your children might go hungry.
The Caspian Oil Myth
Caspian Sea region oil “riches” exposed as a convenient myth manufactured by various United States agencies, governments of some of the newly independent Soviet states of the Caspian Region, and Western oil companies.
Petro-Logistics is very well connected in the gulf and the Black Sea
From his spare office over a grocery store in Geneva, Conrad Gerber can sway world oil markets. Mr Gerber runs a small firm, Petro-Logistics, that collects and analyses data on the world’s supplies of oil. His confidential reports, which cost his select list of clients as much as $ 5,000 a month, often find their way into the business press, typically causing jumps or dips in the volatile petroleum markets.