Col. Fletcher Prouty (JFK’s “Dr. X”)Talks About The History Of The Peak Oil Scam

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Peak renewables

The “peak oil” scare has long been used as an excuse for alternative-energy providers to demand government subsidies. We are told that oil production will reach a zenith and the wells will run dry any day now, so failure to provide billions in handouts to the providers of other fuels would be irresponsible. Forget peak […]

Kunstler: Suspended Agitation

Woe is unto the world. It doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind. The rule of law has been replaced by Murphy’s Law. The story in Greece gets more and more curious. One of the latest proposals is to ask holders of Greek bonds to go along with a voluntary rollover, meaning we will […]

The plan to destabilize Syria

The operations conducted against Libya and Syria involve the same actors and strategies. However, their respective outcomes will differ since the situations in these countries are not comparable. Thierry Meyssan analyzes the semi-failure experienced by the colonial and counter-revolutionary forces, and predicts a pendulum reversal in the Arab world. The efforts to overthrow the Syrian […]

The Deep Green Meaning of Fukushima

Humanity must decrease its use of energy.  The decrease must be a lot (not a little bit) and it must happen soon.  A failure to do so will lay the foundation for the destruction of human life by some combination of climate change and radiation. How long will the disastrous consequences of Fukushima continue?  A […]

Global warming consensus melts in its own heat

Credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, embodiment of the ballyhooed consensus about humanly induced global warming, has suffered another blow. The IPCC hasn’t recovered from past embarrassments: mistaken warnings about melting Himalayan glaciers, disclosures of attempts by data providers to discredit dissenters, and reports that grants flowed to a New Delhi institute run […]

The President, The Media, and Oil Supply

Recently President Obama, under pressure from Republicans and the public to bring down gasoline prices, announced a plan to expand domestic oil production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. The media appeared to joyfully trumpet the idea that with expanded oil drilling in the U.S., oil production would ramp up. No one in the […]

Opec calls for IEA oil release halt

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The oil cartel warned that growth in the global economy is set to slow down later this year resulting in a dive in demand for oil. Member countries of the IEA voted last week to release 60 million barrels of oil onto the market in an attempt to ease price pressure. Today the body said […]

Do Energy/Environment Blogs get read in Government?

Apparently so. From one of the internal EIA email exchanges released by the NYT in association with the Urbina shale gas articles (p33 of here): and from the same document p39: Early Warning

The View From 2050: Growing Economies And a Whole New Set of Major Problems

The rise of developing countries is transforming the global economy. Whereas for the bulk of the world’s population economic stagnation has been the rule over millennia, today’s economic growth is unprecedented. More countries — and people — are achieving rapid income growth than ever before, and developing countries are rising in the ranks of the […]

The Saudi Arabian Protectorate of Bahrain

The small archipelago nation of Bahrain can’t seem to stay out of the news lately, as the government continues its containment of civil protests that it perceives as a threat to its rule. The majority (60-70%) Shi’a population has observed the examples of regime-change elsewhere in the Middle East and were demonstrating publicly about their […]

Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant

A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no water inside the plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory […]

As The IEA-OPEC Nash Equilibrium Collapses, Is A 1973-Style OPEC Embargo Next?

Last week’s dramatic decision by the US administration to strongarm the IEA into releasing strategic petroleum reserves (of which the US would account for 30 million barrels, or half of the total), is nothing but yet another example of the hobbled and incredibly short-sighted thinking that permeates every corner of the Obama administration. Because as […]

Why the world faces a massive traffic jam

Sustainability is the biggest issue facing global business in the 21st century. While breakthroughs like improved battery technology will likely provide a solution to the CO2 challenge, another issue — “Global Gridlock” — is quietly taking its place. Global gridlock can be defined by numbers. The world’s population is growing and is becoming more affluent. […]

Survival Gardening Part 2 peak oil, TSHTF, food storage

In a new series of video we discuss and will show methods of gardening “when it counts.” The first 3 short videos detail some of the pitfalls and perils to the common survival/preparedness thinking of “when my storage food runs out I’ll just grow a garden.” Intermixed throughout the first three videos are also invaluable […]

Ugo Bardi: The Limits to Growth Revisited

In some respects, “The Limits to Growth Revisited” is a rather technical book. It goes in some depth in describing the controversy that flared between critics (mainly economists) and supporters of the system dynamics methods used for the 1972 study “The Limits to Growth” (LTG). But “LTG revisited” is not just a technical book. It […]

Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush

Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the United States. But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according […]

Bank says Saudi’s top field in decline

Speculation over the actual size of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves is reaching fever pitch as a major bank says the kingdom’s – and the world’s – biggest field, Gharwar, is in irreversible decline. The Bank of Montreal’s analyst Don Coxe, working from their Chicago office, is the first mainstream number-cruncher to say that Gharwar’s days are […]

Bill Ford at TED 2011: The Issue of Global Gridlock

Bill Ford believes sustainability is the biggest issue facing business in the 21st century. While breakthroughs made in recent years have made him confident that technology will provide a solution to the CO2 challenge, another issue – “Global Gridlock” – is quietly taking its place. The problem can be defined by numbers. The world’s population […]

China eyes Canada oil, US’s energy nest egg

In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs. China, with a growing appetite for oil that may one day surpass that of the U.S., is ready to spend the dollars for a big piece of it. The oil sands […]

U.S. gas is artificially cheap

What’s the true price of gasoline? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting explores the “external costs” of gasoline use in the U.S. — including pollution and the health problems caused by it. “The Price of Gas” video was reported by me, produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo, and illustrated by Arthur […]

Cracking the Permian to provide oil supplies for future

While oil patches from the Bakken shale to the Eagle Ford have been getting a lot of attention in recent years, the oil industry is focussed increasingly on one of the oldest and richest basins in the country – the Permian Basin. Permian formations have long trapped hydrocarbons in shale and other tight sands and rock in what […]

Mike Ruppert: The Arrival of The Post-Petroleum Human

Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star and subject of the documentary “Collapse”, Mike […]

Lies Our Leaders Tell Us – “Nobody Could Have Predicted”

There has been a lot of commentary within the peak oil movement as of late noting that the concept seems to be creeping ever closer to mainstream acceptance. While we should be heartened that the logic of our arguments is finally beginning to shine through the fog of denial and obfuscation, we also need to […]

Kingdom Must Curb Its Energy Appetite

The Kingdom needs to curb its energy appetite and redouble its efforts to use alternative energy streams, a leading investment banker told oil-industry professionals in Alkhobar. Gulf One Investment Bank founder and CEO Nahed M. Taher made the remarks to the Society of Petroleum Engineers and cautioned them about the consequences about Saudi Arabia’s current […]

Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control

Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world.  In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of “sustainable development” and with the goal of promoting “the green agenda”.  An international ruling body has centralized […]

Playing Cat and Mouse with Global Oil

Oil markets took another dose of global geopolitics this week when the International Energy Agency (IEA) unexpectedly announced that it would be releasing 60 million barrels of oil from strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) around the globe. Thursday’s surprise announcement gave oil prices a 4.5 percent hair cut and oil prices closed Friday at $91.25, down […]

Peter Schiff is Bad for the Economy: Oil’s Endless Bid

Just to be clear, we should emphasize decreasing consumption of oil. Global warming is a bigger problem than what’s going on in our economy. The point is that we are well supplied. Maybe it would be better if the peak oil people are right. Here is the link to the Iraqi Oil Minister talking about […]

Nation’s Military moved West In Defence Plan

WA is to become the front line in the defence of Australia under a review that will reposition the nation’s military in response to growing fears about China and security in the Indian Ocean. Under a so-called “force posture review” to be announced by Defence Minister Stephen Smith this morning, the Australian Defence Force will […]

US, Other Countries Battle OPEC With Release From Oil Reserves

While Robert continues his trip to Europe and across the Continental U.S., a significant piece of news has been dominating the headlines. Although we’ve been closely monitoring the release of 60 million barrels of crude on our Energy Ticker page, we also wanted to generate some discussion on the topic, here, on the R-Squared Energy […]

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