How Highly Oil-Dependent Nations Will Get Hurt By Peak Oil More Than Others

There’s been a lot written lately about more and more people in high places recognizing peak oil isn’t just something cranky ex-petroleum geologists and environmentalists reading too much Jared Diamond go on about. In fact both those groups have probably been right all along about peak oil, and it increasingly looks like we are either […]

John Williams: Hyperinflation and Double-Dip Recession Ahead

Economic recovery? What economic recovery? Contrary to popular media reports, government economic reporting specialist and ShadowStats Editor John Williams reads between the government-economic-data lines. “The U.S. is really in the worst condition of any major economy or country in the world,” he says. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, John concludes the nation […]

130000 acres of farmland lost for 2011

With a series of blasts that briefly illuminated the night sky like lightning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began blowing up a Mississippi River levee overnight, flooding about 200 square miles of rich farmland in an effort to bring down historic river levels and spare the city of Cairo, Illinois and other communities. The […]

14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun

A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end of the world; it means the closing of […]

Fears of Japan Fallout Are Overblown, Experts Say

The nuclear disaster in Japan has sent waves of radiation and dread around the globe, prompting so many people to buy radiation detectors and potassium iodide to fend off thyroid cancer that supplies quickly sold out. The fear is unwarranted, experts say. People in Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have reason […]

The New Global Food Wars

In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2 loaf of bread and a loaf costing maybe $2.10. If, however, you live in New Delhi, those skyrocketing costs really matter: A doubling in the world price of wheat […]

Interview: Chris Vernon from The Oil Drum Europe

Chris Vernon from The Oil Drum: Europe answers questions on the impact of peak oil for poorer countries, how peak oil will affect the UK, the potential contribution of biofuels and the relationship between peak oil and climate change. Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas Interviewee: Chris Vernon

EIA cancels 2011 US reserves compilation as it cuts budget

The US Energy Information Administration will not prepare or publish US oil and gas reserves data for 2011 as it cuts $15.2 million, or 14%, from its budget, the US Department of Energy information and analysis agency said on Apr. 29. The reductions are part of Congress’s latest continuing resolution that was signed into law […]

Gail Tverberg: The Context of Hubbert’s Peak in World Oil Forecast

Recently when I was reading some of the papers M. King Hubbert wrote, one thing struck me was the context in which he made his forecast regarding how world oil supply would peak and decline. He made this forecast in the context of having plenty of other fuel supply from other sources already developed, to […]

The death of Osama bin Laden and the threat of peak oil

With the death of Osama bin Laden, can America now face threats to our future more dangerous than Al Qaeda — peak oil and climate change? After the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush called for the American people to show our unity with each other and our defiance of terrorists who would target the American […]

Peak Psychotherapy, Abundant Human Connection, By Carolyn Baker

In a world of unprecedented resource depletion, climate change, and economic catastrophe unseen since the Great Depression, each day manifests yet another reduction in energy, materials, services, opportunities, and funds for maintaining the status quo. We witness the almost moment-to-moment deterioration of every institution’s infrastructure, and the reality of the privatization of these entities becomes […]

Rob Hopkins Interview:Climate Change & peak Oil

Transition Town instigator Rob Hopkins is interviewed by Adrienne Campbell in Lewes, East Sussex in the day Transition Town Lewes is unleashed. Question 3, How do Climate Change & Peak Oil inter-relate and why do they demand a certain type of response.

Ugo Bardi: The ghost of ASPO-9

ASPO, the association for the study of peak oil and gas, has been around for more than ten years by now; from when it was conceived first by Colin Campbell, at a conference in Germany in 2000. In these years, ASPO has grown from a small group of petroleum geologists to a remarkable association of […]

Lithium Drive: Shai Agassi on Green Transport in the 21st Century – Electric Cars

It is the best interview with Shai Agassi we have seen so far. Audio quality in this video is not the best, but content will keep you glued to the screens. As you remember, we start to express doubts in the commercial success of the “better place” approach, while always praising Shai Agassi and his […]

Saudi Arabia to Pump 9 Million Barrels of Oil in 2011

Saudi Arabia’s oil production may reach 9 million barrels per day on average in 2011 as global demand increases, said an official at National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia’s largest bank by assets. Average prices for Saudi’s crude are expected to reach $95 per barrel, Said A. al-Shaikh, the Jeddah-based lender’s senior vice president and its […]

Will Humanity Survive?

Ben Goertzel Interviews Paul Werbos on Existential Risks So, I’ll start off with a little tiny innocuous question: What do you think is a reasonable short-list of the biggest existential risks facing humanity during the next century? Paul: Number one by far: the risk that bad trends may start to cause an abuse of nuclear […]

Plan to turn Alaska’s natural gas into gasoline for less than $3/Gallon

With an increasing air of pessimism around the prospects for a pipeline to export natural gas from the North Slope, there is talk of alternatives for monetizing the vast quantities of gas stranded in Arctic Alaska. One alternative was discussed by Deo van Wijk, chairman of Swiss company Janus Methanol AG, before the state House […]

Australia’s peak oil broadcast

The infrastructure Australia needs to respond to the world’s dwindling oil supply is not the sort we are building. Peak oil is forcing its way to the top of the agenda with stark warnings from the International Energy Agency and others repeated on ABC radio and television this week, after an investigation by the Catalyst […]

Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began

Bloomberg has an update on the Fukushima nuclear disaster – Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began. Weirdly this story has changed since it was first published, which initially claimed radiation readings had fallen to zero – http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html. Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi station rose to the highest since an […]

Interview with Kunstler: The Small Cities at the End of the Tunnel

We all know there’s a conventional worldview out there—call it consensus reality. It’s football on Saturdays, Bud Light, Banks that Care, America the Greatest Country of All. A lot of people—more and more every day, it seems—view consensus reality as bogus. You’ve got your conspiracy theorists (Mossad!!! The Trilateral Commission!!!), and then there are those […]

Peak Oil and Soil

When discussing the value of soil especially in the context of Peak Oil, the devil is in the details. There are two parts to this: First is that readers may not realize the gravity of the situation concerning food and Peak Oil. There is a wing of the Peak Oil argument that statistically demonstrates how […]

Why Water Will Never Be the Next Oil

If you want to glimpse what the future of water will look like, start with a cruise ship — where it is a carefully measured commodity. Every drop of water used on a cruise ship is either purchased at a dock or manufactured using on-board desalination systems fired by expensive fuel. Ships are closed loops […]

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