Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil

I borrowed a book from him that he had just read energybulletin

Chevrolet To Launch World’s Largest Fuel Cell Vehicle Fleet

General Motors committed to building the world theautochannel

Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice

The Independent – The melting of the sea ice in the Arctic, the clearest sign so far of global warming, has taken a sudden and enormous leap forward, in one of the most ominous developments yet in the onset of climate change. Two separate studies by Nasa, using different satellite monitoring technologies, both show a […]

Making Withdrawls for Retirement Pay Off

Seattle Times – Q: What is your take on some recent warnings about a coming economic crisis due to the price of oil? Billionaire Richard Rainwater talked about this in a December 2005 interview. Stephen Leeb warns of “The Coming Economic Collapse” in his book by that title. These people are “serious Wall Street types,” […]

Capacity Limits to Curb Oil Price Fall

Sydney Morning Herald – THE world should get used to oil prices above $US60 a barrel for at least the next two years due to capacity shortages, said Claude Mandil, the executive director of the International Energy Agency. Speaking from Paris, Mr Mandil told ABC’s Inside Business that increased upstream supplies were not expected until […]

Algeria Sees Oil Over $50 But Watching US Growth

(Reuters) – Oil prices are expected to stay above $50 a barrel in coming months, but producers are watching the U.S. economy closely as the possibility of a recession there cannot be ruled out, Algeria’s energy minister said on Sunday. Asked by reporters for his price outlook for coming months, Energy and Mines Minister Chakib […]

It’s all about the ice

Toronto Star – Ice defines the Arctic. It determines what exists, and how. It shapes the region’s culture and history. It’s highway, birthing ground and hunting platform. It’s what tourists clamour for, and artists strive to paint. It has helped to forge Canada’s identity as a cold, northern nation of strong, resourceful survivors. It is […]

The Good News About Oil Prices Is the Bad News

The sad fact is that just as oil is the lifeblood of Western economies, oil revenue often is the lifeblood of tyranny. Oil-rich regimes that trample the rights of women, finance terrorism and preach intolerance are sustained by what we spend on gasoline and heating oil. The unfortunate paradox is that moderating oil prices, while they may reduce the earnings of despots in the short run, will only support our harmful addiction

Leak fuels Scandinavian nuclear debate

An internal leak was behind the high radioactivity levels that led to the emergency shut-down of a Norwegian nuclear reactor last weekend, officials have said. The Kjellar reactor north of Oslo, a 40-year old experimental facility used for physics research, was shut down immediately after high radioactivity was detected inside the building. Faulty fuel and […]

Lightening the Energy Burden

Oil and natural gas prices continued to decline last week, lightening the load on the U.S. and global economies, boosting stock prices and buoying consumer confidence. The fall in energy prices was part of a broader decline in commodity prices that, over the past three weeks, has been the steepest in 25 years. To some […]

Builders adapt to demand for energy efficient homes

MONTROSE, CO Congour, owner of Colorado Clean Energy Systems, is a trained engineer with experience in plumbing. He wondered about the phenomenon for a long time and finally came to the conclusion solar energy could help solve the nation

Why the laws of economics don

IT Monetary-policy types also want to know about oil prices. The recent decline, they say, provides ammunition to the members of the Federal Reserve Board

Peak oil and investing

Q: What is your take on some recent warnings about a coming economic crisis due to the price of oil? Billionaire Richard Rainwater talked about this in a December 2005 interview. Stephen Leeb warns of “The Coming Economic Collapse” in his book by that title. These people are “serious Wall Street types,” at least to […]

Dutch Moving Wind Turbines Offshore

For centuries, Dutch windmills have pumped water out of the low-lying country, and old-fashioned wooden mills are as closely linked with the Netherlands’ international image as its dikes and bikes. But in the face of a large and growing lobby against the windmill’s modern electricity-generating counterpart _ the wind turbine _ the country has started […]

Ramblers demand an end to spread of wind farms

The Ramblers’ Association is set to announce its opposition to the construction of onshore wind farms across the country. The move is a major blow for the government, which is struggling to maintain its pledge to increase the amount of electricity generated by renewable energy sources. The decision to try to block large wind farms […]

Bush ‘prepares emissions U-turn’

President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say. After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources. Administration insiders privately refer to the planned volte-face as Mr […]

Petrol-hungry Iran still eyeing rationing

Major crude producer Iran is still aiming to enforce petrol rationing to curb crippling domestic fuel consumption, as long as it wins parliamentary approval, its oil minister said Saturday. “If the parliament approves, the current situation will continue for the next few months and then rationing will be implemented,” the minister, Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, said […]

Could sugar cane save the planet?

For the past few months, motorists in Somerset have been taking part in an unusual experiment: filling their cars with fuel made of fermented Brazilian sugar cane. Only a handful of cars, including 10 police vehicles, can use the resultant ethanol and only five pumps – on Morrison’s forecourts – can supply it. Nevertheless, the […]

UK and Belgium in talks to pump up winter gas supplies

Energy minister Malcolm Wicks, National Grid and the industry’s regulator Ofgem are to hold a summit with their Belgian counterparts tomorrow to try to ensure that gas continues to flow to the UK this winter. The UK relies on the Interconnector, a pipeline between the two countries, for most of its gas imports. But only […]

Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to play a more proactive role in regards to the oil market. Chidambaram, who is leading the Indian delegation (comprising of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka) to the IMF arabnews

Pain at pump can push America into oil detox

Across the country, politicians and ordinary citizens want to lower taxes on gasoline to ease pain at the pump. This idea is tempting, but it is precisely wrong: There is no better time to raise the national gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon than now, if done correctly. I have a plan. chinapost

Polar bears drown, islands appear in Arctic thaw

Polar bears are drowning and receding Arctic glaciers have uncovered previously unknown islands in a drastic 2006 summer thaw widely blamed on global warming. “We know about three new islands this year that have been uncovered because the glaciers have retreated,” said Rune Bergstrom, environmental adviser to the governor of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago about […]

U.S. Says Plan to Expand Alaska Oil Drilling Should Proceed

The Bush administration said a Sept. 27 sale of oil drilling leases in Alaska should go forward and rejected a court’s objections that environmental effects have not been properly addressed. The U.S. Interior Department said in a court filing yesterday that the impact of expanded drilling on air, water, wetlands and wildlife had been properly […]

Countdown to $100 oil (31) – $15 oil? The cornucopians are fighting back

Recently, there has been a quite visible backlash in the media against peak oil theory. If the past few months had seen the sudden emergence of the concept in the mainstream press, the recent fall in oil prices (from a high of $78 to about $62 today in just a few weeks) has brought back […]

Krauthammer: Attack on Iran Inevitable

Responding to a question on Iran, President Bush said on Tuesday: “It’s very important for the American people to see the president try to solve problems diplomatically before resorting to military force.” “Before” implies that the one follows the other, Charles Krauthammer notes in the Washington Post. “The signal is unmistakable. An aerial attack on […]

California Argues Case for Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Limits; Moves for Ruling

San Jose Mercury News. California Deputy Attorney General Mark Melnick defended California greencarcongress

Poplar Genome Sequenced and Published; Model Crop for Biofuels

A paper highlighting the analysis of this first complete DNA sequence of a tree is published in this week greencarcongress

Syntroleum needs a Savior

There have been numerous findings of oil in the Gulf recently. In Cuba carlist

Oil giant says biofuel could cost Kiwi motorists millions

New rules requiring oil companies to meet specific targets for the sale of biofuels or face massive fines are under attack from Shell. The oil giant says proposed mandatory targets outlined by the Ministry of Transport last week could increase the cost of petrol and diesel by at least 5c a litre. “That would mean […]

Fox News Acknowledges Peak Oil

In the entire history of the world, human beings have produced about one trillion barrels of oil. That leaves about 4.7 trillion barrels left. So whatNow, there is an argument that crude oil output is about to plateau. Something called the

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