Selectboard cuts Peak Oil Task Force
Brattleboro Reformer, United States - 1 hour ago
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO — After thanking the Peak Oil Task Force for a job well done, the Selectboard disbanded the group with the …
Brattleboro Reformer, United States - 1 hour ago
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO — After thanking the Peak Oil Task Force for a job well done, the Selectboard disbanded the group with the …
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New peak oil documentary fluffs the faithful
Grist Magazine, WA - 11 hours ago And when it comes to the Romantic agrarian peak oil evangelism this movie traffics in, the Average Joe needs lots of convincing. … |
 Earthtimes (press release) |
No Respite from Dearer Oil
The Daily Reckoning, UK - 15 hours ago Where would the price go we wonder if Saudi - accounting for 13% - announced peak oil? As it is Goldman Sachs weigh in with another oil price forecast this … $100 a barrel: Going, Going…. The Oil Drum |
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The End of Cheap Oil is Now
People’s Weekly World - 5 May 2008 The real issue that McCain, Clinton and anyone truly serious about gas prices must confront is peak oil. Peak oil theorists do not suggest that the Earth … |
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Peak Oil Review — May 5th, 2008
International Business Times, NY - 5 May 2008 Oil prices hit an all-time high of $119.93 last Monday and then subsided on the prospects that oil-worker strikes in Scotland and Nigeria were about to end. … |
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City waits for committee look at oil task force
Bellingham Herald, WA - 6 May 2008 Officials decided Monday night to hold off on approving a resolution creating an 18- member peak oil task force because some council members were concerned … |
 The Money Times |
We Will Never Have Cheap Oil Again
RedOrbit, TX - 5 hours ago It may become very tight indeed if the “peak oil” advocates are right. These are geologists who believe that the world is close to the technical limits on … Oil Passes $120 a Barrel Daily Green Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculation Online Journal |
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12 steps of Peak Oil
Georgia Straight, Canada - 5 May 2008 Came to believe that a dedication to the facts about peak oil could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to dedicate our will and our lives to the … |
 The Cutting Edge |
Shell Execs Briefed on Peak Oil in 1956
The Cutting Edge, DC - 5 May 2008 When did Shell executives first learn that the world would one day face the moment of peak oil, known to many as Hubbert’s Peak? Answer: as far back as 1956 … |
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What about nuclear in peak oil scenario?
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 3 May 2008 I am far from complacent about ‘Peak Oil‘. After the defence of the realm and the maintenance of civil order, the Government’s first responsibility is to … |
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The ASPO-Italy conference in Torino
The Oil Drum - 14 hours ago The second part of the conference was dedicated to solutions, with a presentation on what we might call the Italian answer to peak oil: high altitude wind … |
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Quenching the world’s growing thirst for oil
Financial Express, India - 5 May 2008 The Association of Peak Oil is crying itself hoarse predicting that we have either reached, or are on the verge of, peak oil. From here onwards, the slide … |
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Gasoline powered robot
EDN.com, MA - 20 hours ago This brings up considerations like peak oil. Peak oil is a concept crated by Luddites and fear-mongers who invariably want to change everyone’s behavior to … |
 Vancouver Sun |
City of Swiss-style hill villages envisioned here
Vancouver Sun, Canada - 6 May 2008 Balfour, a former member of the Vancouver City Planning Commission, belongs to the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive, a group of people convinced that sky-high … |
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End Of Suburbia Is Environmentalist Dream
Grist Magazine, WA - 24 minutes ago As I wrote in a review: How do you get your older Midwest relatives to swallow the Red Pill and understand why you’re obsessed with peak oil? … |
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Come the Zombiepocalypse, I’ve Got a Hand-Cranked Blender and a …
Firefox News, AZ - 5 May 2008 Click on any news website and the top world concerns you’re going to find include Peak Oil and food shortages. We’ll discuss Peak Oil in a few weeks, … |
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Peak oil expert also makes presentation at BCC
Fall River Spirit, MA - 1 May 2008 By Jay Kenney FALL RIVER — In celebration of Earth Day, Richard Heinberg, a world renowned expert on peak oil and its impact on industrial society, … |
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Peak oil pretense
Vancouver Sun, Canada - 25 Apr 2008 Fossil fuels are finite by definition. Eventually, since a growing global population will consume more energy, we’ll run out of oil. … |
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A tricky balance
Oilweek Magazine, Canada - 17 hours ago Peak oil and gas activity has taught employers a lesson, Knight says. Companies that in the past didn´t do long-term workforce planning are now doing it. … |
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Thoughts on Global Weather, Food Supplies and Inflation
FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market, Spain - 5 May 2008 So, when there is talk of Peak Oil, cooler weather or warmer weather (cooler weather is actually worse because the growing seasons are reduced), … |
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Katherine Heerbrandt Getting real about oil
Frederick News Post (subscription), MD - 2 hours ago The World Energy Council predicts that peak oil production will happen in 15 years. US Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-6, to his credit, has been championing this … |
 Wall Street Journal |
Buffett and Munger Hold Court
Morningstar.com, IL - 4 May 2008 Buffett and Munger also commented on the topic of peak oil. This is the argument over whether the world is soon going to reach a peak in oil production … Oil and energy – Berkshire bosses weigh in National Post |
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Food troubles are here to stay
Ha’aretz, Israel - 1 May 2008 The rise in oil prices betrays a genuine market concern about “peak oil.” Most geologists today agree that world oil production is reaching, or has already … |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Half-Life For Air Travel
Falls Church News Press, VA - 1 May 2008 In recent weeks, airlines around the world have been reporting substantial losses, declaring bankruptcy or completely shutting down. … |
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How not to prepare for peak oil
Salon - 17 Apr 2008 Now that the price of a barrel of oil has topped $115, the words “peak oil” can be found just about anywhere — including in the headline of an April 16 … |
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Natural born survivors
guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 May 2008 Aside from climate change, what underpins all this gloom is a belief that we have nearly reached, or already passed, peak oil - the point at which global … |
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Love affair with oil is coming to an end – now what to do we do …
Kawartha Media Group, Canada - 2 May 2008 My hope is that Council will stay focused on the critical issue of climate change and soon acknowledge that we are also in the period known as peak oil (the … |
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City Council to look at gas-price effects: Goals include education …
Trading Markets (press release), CA - 3 May 2008 Monday night Weiss and other council members will discuss the creation of a local peak oil task force that will study how ever-increasing fuel prices and … |
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City of Maribyrnong: Peak Oil Policy
The Oil Drum - 28 Apr 2008 On Tuesday 15th April, the council unanimously endorsed a Peak Oil Policy and Action Plan. This post summarises the Peak Oil Policy document, … |
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Peak Oil Is a Problem We Can Solve Now
AlterNet, CA - 10 Apr 2008 The peak oil problem will not “destroy suburbia” or the American way of life. Only unrestrained emissions of greenhouse gases can do that. … |
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‘Peak oil‘ crisis, and drastic change, coming our way
Vancouver Sun, Canada - 11 Apr 2008 Something similar needs to happen on the so-called “peak oil” front because the world is running out of cheap oil. So far, that something is not happening. … |
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Time to ask: What are we going to do when oil wells run dry?
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 25 Apr 2008 As climate change did over the past few years, peak oil seems poised to become the next big idea commanding the attention of governments, businesses and … |
 CNN |
Shell Oil president: To cut price, produce more gasoline in US
CNN - 30 Apr 2008 I think Shell sees that coming, but in terms of total oil supply to the world, we’re a long way from reaching peak oil because it doesn’t take into account … |
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2 Peak Oil Plays
Motley Fool - 8 Apr 2008 While only one of the companies explicitly connected its fortunes to peak oil, I find both companies to be sound plays on a long-term increase in the price … |
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Rising oil prices seen as ‘peak’ opportunity
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 27 Apr 2008 Heinberg, author of eight books, including four on “peak oil,” is a motivational speaker of sorts. Espousing the benefits of early action against the … |
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Crude OIl Hits $119- Ways to Profit From Peak Oil
The Market Oracle, UK - 27 Apr 2008 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a few months ago that if the United States invades Iran , we could expect to see oil at $200 a barrel. … |
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Lawmaker to guv: What happens at the end of oil?
MinnPost.com, MN - 1 May 2008 On Wednesday, the House passed a “peak oil” resolution 81 to 7 that calls for the Legislature and the guv to get ready for the day when we run out of gas. … |
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The End of the Oil Age
Dossiers Du Net, France - 29 Apr 2008 The truth is that peak oil has already had an impact on all of the major events of this young century. And it will have a major impact on all of our lives … |
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Right-wing journalists, Jeremy Leggett, Bill Clinton, and peak oil
Georgia Straight, Canada - 25 Apr 2008 By Charlie Smith For years, right-wing journalists have been dismissing peak-oil theory as a bunch of hogwash. The Economist magazine’s environment and … |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Case for 2008
Falls Church News Press, VA - 24 Apr 2008 It is conventional wisdom for most of the people following the peak oil story that we still have a few years to go before the real troubles begin. … |
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Rising prices spread fear at the pumps
Ottawa Citizen, Canada - 2 May 2008 It sounds very much like what experts in the field call peak oil. That is, the world is producing as much oil as it ever will and that production will … |
 BBC News |
Do you need to stock up the bunker?
BBC News, UK - 2 May 2008 “There is the problem of peak oil, peak gas, peak food, peak corn, peak everything,” he says. In some green discussion circles, those concerned about “peak” … |
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Ready for peak-oil refugees?
Georgia Straight, Canada - 24 Apr 2008 By Matthew Burrows When Kitsilano-based strategic planner, architect, and peak-oil proponent Richard Balfour talks about environmental refugees, … |
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It’s time to relocalise our lives
Sunday Herald, UK - 26 Apr 2008 If we ignore this, then peak oil is the slap on the face that should bring us to our senses. Instead of driving miles to the supermarket to load up on food … |
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Peak-oil planning counterintuitive here
Georgia Straight, Canada - 24 Apr 2008 There is a book-publishing frenzy on the topics of peak oil and global climate change. The scientific consensus is that the future will not be a … |
 Wall Street Journal Blogs |
Peak Oil? Saudis Squeeze the Stone Even Harder
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 22 Apr 2008 As oil reserves get harder and more expensive to suck out of the ground, one big question looms: Is Saudi Arabia facing “practical peak oil” or the real … |
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Peak Oil: Why Oil reserves are depleting
Commodity Online, India - 22 Apr 2008 MUMBAI: Do you know what is Peak Oil and how the decline in oil production is affecting companies and countries across the globe? The term Peak Oil refers … |
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Oil aplenty, but investment needed
The Australian, Australia - 27 Apr 2008 The “peak oil” theorists, who maintain that world production is headed inexorably lower, have been captivated by reports that the biggest Saudi field, … |
 Daily Green |
70% of People Believe We’re At Peak Oil
Daily Green - 21 Apr 2008 By Dan Shapley Around the world, 70% of people believe in peak oil, the theory that says the supply of oil is about as abundant as it will ever be, … |
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Peak oil problems need facing now
Bega District News, Australia - 21 Apr 2008 AN audience at a recent meeting in Candelo was advised not to wait for the impacts of Peak Oil to hit Australia, but to plan and act now to cushion its … |
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Peak oil hits Russia?
Transport and Logistics News, Australia - 21 Apr 2008 The ever-increasing oil price is not likely to result in increased output, with most suppliers experiencing flat output and Russian production in steep … |
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Quickly for 05/06/08
Gary Post Tribune, IN - 23 hours ago Why would they build new? Google “peak oil” and tell me what is so bad about holding back on developing every last oil deposit. |
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Peak Oil Review — April 21st, 2008
International Business Times, NY - 21 Apr 2008 It was another week of steadily rising oil prices with crude moving from a low of $109.74 a barrel on Monday to new high of over $117 a barrel by Friday. … |
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An Age of Transition The United States, China, Peak OIl, and the …
Monthly Review, VA - 20 Apr 2008 The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, Newsletter No. 86 (February 2008); The Germany Energy Watch Group, “Coal: Resources and Future Production … |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Silly Season Is Upon Us
Falls Church News Press, VA - 17 Apr 2008 Rather than presenting imminent oil depletion as a fact, the major papers are writing “balanced” stories in which somebody says peak oil is imminent, … |
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SMH Editorial Mentions Peak Oil
The Oil Drum - 22 Apr 2008 … to linkrot shortly I’m afraid - I’m not sure what permalink scheme they have for editorials) mentioning “the threat of peak oil clouding the future of … |
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More than peak oil or financial crash, I fear angry men armed to …
Grist Magazine, WA - 23 Apr 2008 “I urge readers to use less than lethal means when safe and practicable, but at times there is not a satisfactory substitute for well-aimed lead going down … |
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Peak Oil Comes to Russia, New Oil Surprises Brazil
Sovereign Society, FL - 15 Apr 2008 The concept of Peak Oil is increasingly becoming conventional wisdom among global investors this decade as crude prices continue to hit new … |
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Hillary ‘Big Govt.’ Clinton Wants America to Sue OPEC
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition, Australia - 5 May 2008 But getting OPEC to pump more oil isn’t going to solve the problem of Peak Oil. It will only accelerate the rate at which we deplete existing reserves. … |
 Torontoist |
Hot Broccoli, Hide Yer Smokes, Peak Oil Again
Torontoist, Canada - 22 Apr 2008 Brazen thieves stole a truck containing about $11000 worth of broccoli from a parking lot near the 427 on the weekend. Police are warning residents to keep … |
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The Fermi Pardox and the End of Cheap Oil
Technocrat.net, MA - 5 May 2008 Tim O’Reilly has made an interesting post relating the Fermi paradox to peak oil. Perhaps, he reasons, our period of oil-blessed economic growth and … |
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LaDuke focuses on climate change, peak oil and food security in …
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - 16 Apr 2008 LaDuke spoke about this vision in her keynote address, “Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Security: Challenges and Strategies for this Millennium,” … |
 Wall Street Journal Blogs |
Peak Oil: “Da” Say Russian Oil Execs
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 15 Apr 2008 The WSJ reports today on more bleak peak news: Russia could be the newest member of the peak-oil club. The International Energy Agency reported that Russian … |
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Oil is expensive because oil is scarce
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 May 2008 None of this should come as a surprise since all the evidence now suggests the world is rapidly approaching “peak oil“, the point when global oil production … |
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A series of ‘green’ lunches – and not just the salad
Kilkenny People, Ireland - 30 Apr 2008 This series of talks, workshops and films is open to the general public and aims to raise awareness about climate change and peak oil. … |
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Postponing Peak Oil
Hot Air, MD - 15 Apr 2008 Will Peak Oil eventually arrive? Presumably; crude oil is not a renewable resource. However, we have a lot more places to explore, as Brazil proved. … |
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There is plenty of Oil
Macedonia, Canada - 21 Apr 2008 The optimistic view of the world’s oil resource was also given support by BP’s chief economist, Peter Davies, who dismissed theories of “Peak Oil” as … |
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World Renowned Environmentalist Delivers Impassioned Plea at …
South Florida Caribbean News, FL - 18 hours ago Looming ahead for the entire world is the great crisis of our economy, peak oil, the moment when available oil supplies are all known and being exploited so … |
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Where the Oil Rally Goes: Facts and Speculation
Seeking Alpha, NY - 23 Apr 2008 They are also devastating the arguments of the “don’t worry about peak oil” crowd that the Saudis will supply the growth in oil demand projected for future … |
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Russia Hits Peak Oil
The Daily Reckoning, UK - 15 Apr 2008 Russia was the new frontier for oil production a few short years ago. Not any more it seems, according to an FT report today… 10m barrels a day from the … |
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If Peak Oil comes, my family is screwed
AOL Life & Style Canada, Canada - 10 Apr 2008 Peak Oil refers to the (many say) looming oil crisis. I’m trying to go all survivalist, but, you know, I don’t think I’ve got the right stuff. … |
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Peak Oil in Russia?
New Republic (subscription), DC - 15 Apr 2008 The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Russia–long viewed as a likely candidate to pick up the slack in oil production as fields in the North … |
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Are we at peak oil?
American Chronicle, CA - 8 Apr 2008 Peak oil, the point at which oil production reaches its maximum and begins to decline may have passed as oil continues to rise in price. … |
 Emirates Business 24/7 |
Consumption reform only way to curb oil price
Emirates Business 24/7, United Arab Emirates - 3 May 2008 The key driver to easing this pressure is whether we are past peak oil. And the answer is we are past cheap oil, but not past peak oil. … |
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Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
International Business Times, NY - 7 Apr 2008 Last week Chairman of the Committee on the Environment of the Massachusetts legislature hosted a meeting on Peak Oil. The standing-room-only meeting heard … |
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Peak oil, future of food and land use
The Bridge, MA - 11 Apr 2008 Following each talk the audience is invited to participate in a discussion of local/community solutions to peak oil currently underway. … |
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Fermi’s Paradox and the End of Cheap Oil
O’Reilly Radar, CA - 5 May 2008 Either global warming or peak oil will lead to an urgent transformation of civilization as we know it, or our failure to transform quickly enough might well … |
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Our Lives Without Oil
Valley Advocate, MA - 24 Apr 2008 When Heinberg published The Party’s Over just three years ago, the concept of “peak oil” - the idea that soon the world will have used up most of its finite … |
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Transition towns
CNN - 30 Apr 2008 “It has grown into a vacuum — there is nothing else that looks at ways to respond to peak oil and climate change that feels good,” Hopkins says. … |
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The future of energy
Fall River Spirit, MA - 1 May 2008 WHAT TO EXPECT:Peak oil expert Richard Heinberg speculates that within 10 to 20 years, oil exports may decline to zero. By SEAN McCARTHY If you believe … |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The First Shortages
Falls Church News Press, VA - 10 Apr 2008 It clearly will take outright shortages with lines at the pumps, curtailed deliveries and many other misfortunes before serious measures to deal with … |
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Rednecks and peak oil: Valuing the farmer’s contribution
Whitman Pioneer, WA - 17 Apr 2008 As peak oil approaches and our world moves to a place where wheat from China, asparagus from Chile and sugar from Costa Rica cease to make sense, … |
 Raise the Hammer |
Planning Over a Cliff
Raise the Hammer, Canada - 30 Apr 2008 Even four years ago, the evidence of peak oil was not as obscure as you may think. There were many books and energy experts warning the world that the … |
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Oil prices are not going to fall much, ever
MSN Money UK, UK - 22 Apr 2008 This isn’t directly an argument in favour of the “Peak Oil” theory, the idea that we will in the next few years began an irrevocable fall in oil output. … |
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First Wind Power Skyscraper - peak oil
Cherry Creek News, CO - 18 Apr 2008 Bahrain’s World Trade Center is a giant skyscraper, with two twin towers, and its partially wind-powered, comlete with an architectural design to maximize … |
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Peak Oil: Russia’s oil production is coming down
Commodity Online, India - 7 Apr 2008 MOSCOW: Oil production in Russia, the second largest oil exporter in the world, is coming down drastically, says a new study. … |
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Inexpensive residential wind power - peak oil
North Denver News, CO - 16 Apr 2008 Don’t look now but it appears residential renewable energy systems and wind power technology are getting cheaper. California based Freetricity’s E2D … |
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Rob Hopkins: Eco Worrier
Building.co.uk, UK - 1 May 2008 Its message is that once the world hits peak oil production – that is, when there are no big reserves left to discover and supply is heading downhill … |
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Peaking supply of oil warned
The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 22 Apr 2008 The executive branch in cities is not sufficiently up to speed on global warming or peak oil.” He said officials have the day-to-day details to worry about. … |
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Renewable Energy facts - peak oil
North Denver News, CO - 15 Apr 2008 • Renewable electricity generation capacity reached an estimated 240 gigawatts (GW) worldwide in 2007, an increase of 50 percent over 2004. … |
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Renewable Energy accounts for 2.4 million jobs, 204 gigawatts …
Cherry Creek News, CO - 15 Apr 2008 The renewable energy industry is stepping up its meteoric rise into the mainstream of the energy sector, according to the REN21 Renewables 2007 Global … |
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Wiley Publishing Releases New Book “Profit From the Peak: The End …
Market Wire (press release) - 23 Apr 2008 Chris Nelder is a self-taught energy expert and solar designer who has intensively studied peak oil for years and written hundreds of articles on peak oil … |
 International Business Times |
Oil Prices Set to Increase Further
International Business Times, NY - 14 Apr 2008 One of the more high-profile debates in the crude oil market today and at the EIA conference is the concept of “peak” oil. Peak oil is simply the idea that … |
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Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 2.5
Grist Magazine, WA - 26 Apr 2008 The goal of this post is to explore how peak oil and, yes, peak coal might affect the world’s effort to stabilize CO2 concentrations. … |
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It’sa myth that the world’s oil is running out
Times Online, UK - 26 Apr 2008 We might have reached the age of peak panic about oil supplies, but not of peak oil. One thing we think we know about the oil business is correct. … |
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When the oil runs out
Waikato Times, New Zealand - 14 Apr 2008 “Our settlements and communities lack the resilience to enable them to weather the severe energy shocks that will accompany peak oil. … |
 Supply Chain Digest |
Logistics News: Is Dramatic Slowdown in Russian Oil Production …
Supply Chain Digest, OH - 16 Apr 2008 According to Peak Oil theorists, who have been arguing global oil production has already or soon will reach its maximum output (See Is Saudi Arabia Running … |
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If you think $1.31 is high, wait for summer
BCLocalNews, Canada - 2 May 2008 He cites exploding demand for cars and rising incomes in the developing world that will push up fuel consumption and drive prices higher even if “peak oil” … |
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The Four Day Work Week: Sixteen Reasons Why This Might Be an Idea …
The Oil Drum - 2 May 2008 Peak oil and climate change could make for turbulent business waters ahead. This country needs more business leaders willing to navigate these waters not by … |
Two factors mean the end of air travel as we know it
Vancouver Sun, Canada - 17 Apr 2008
The world is starting to be affected by the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil, but many involved in transportation planning are looking the …
Vancouver Sun, Canada - 17 Apr 2008
The world is starting to be affected by the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil, but many involved in transportation planning are looking the …
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