What Does Energy Inequality Look Like?

In 2011 the average American used 4,569 kWh of electricity in their home. In the same year the combined residential electricity use per capita of Brazil, India, China and the 21 other countries was 4,485 kWh (click the image to expand). So one American uses 84 kWh more in their home than those 24 nationalities […]

Peak Waste: What You Need to Know About This Important, Shifting Problem

You may think about peak oil every once in a while when filling up your car, but do you ever think about peak waste when you put the trash out on the curb?  The U.S. definitely has a waste problem problem — it produced 250 million tons of it in 2011, 13 million tons of […]

OPEC Still Undecided on Whether to Change Quotas

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, producer of about 40 percent of the world’s oil supply, remains undecided about whether to change output quotas at a meeting next month, Ecuador’s oil minister said. Ecuador, the smallest-producer in OPEC, is considering what it will propose at the Dec. 4 meeting in Vienna, Pedro Merizalde, minister for […]

Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing

A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done.  He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street.  Instead, he says that it has been “the greatest backdoor Wall Street […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: So, Why is Gasoline So Cheap?

There are many zigs and zags, twists and turns, and unintended consequences along the path to higher priced and scarce oil. Only three months ago it seemed we were headed towards an aerial bombardment of Syria’s armed forces which would likely send oil and gas prices towards the sky in anticipation of a response. Well, […]

Shale’s Effect on Oil Supply Is Not Expected to Last

The boom in oil from shale formations in recent years has generated a lot of discussion that the United States could eventually return to energy self-sufficiency, but according to a report released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency, production of such oil in the United States and worldwide will provide only a temporary respite from […]

U.S. to Be Top Oil Producer by 2015 on Shale, IEA Says

The U.S. will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer by 2015, and be close to energy self-sufficiency in the next two decades, amid booming output from shale formations, the IEA said. Crude prices will advance to $128 a barrel by 2035 with a 16 percent increase in consumption supporting the […]

Our Army of Invisible Helpers

A human power station from the BBC’s ‘Bang Goes the Theory’ where human energy slaves were made to power a single household for 24 hours When I started this blog almost three years ago it had a different title to the one you see today. Scratching my head for a good name for it I […]

For Poland the Right Way Is Coal

These are busy days in the Polish capital Warsaw, even if it doesn’t show. The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 19 has opened at the National Stadium, while on the other side of the river Wisla the Polish far right gathered for their annual march on Independence Day on Monday. But bar a large […]

Why the world will never change

As the world population reaches in excess of 7 Billion people of which China and India make up over 3 billion alone, one has to wonder how the world would change in the next few years.  Well, it won’t. You see, the world exists cause everybody on earth plays an integral part in how the […]

What are Transition Towns?

MP3 – Listen 53:02 On today’s Your Call, we will discuss the growing Transition movement. It emerged in 2005 in the UK in response to ‘peak oil’, global warming and economic instability. The concept of alternative living has since been replicated across 44 countries and thousands of towns and neighborhoods. Are transition towns the best […]

IMF Lowers 2013 Mena Growth Forecasts on Oil Production, Instability

The economic outlook for the Middle East has weakened this year amid expectations of lower oil production in crude-exporting countries and continuing political upheaval in Syria and Egypt, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. Oil exporters are dealing with domestic supply disruptions and lower global demand, which has led to reduced output even as political […]

Unsustainability Now!

Concerns over sustainability are usually directed towards the future–a pattern I have often been guilty of participating in. We talk about the environmental costs to our children and the world we will leave to them, the future consequences of our current action and inaction. Peak oil activists were likewise still using phrases like “after peak […]

The Peak Of The Oil Wars

Fossil fuel use has damaged the Global Climate System and continues to do so (Will This Float Your Boat – 3). The war on Oil-Qaeda has yet to be declared, even though commerce in the products of Oil-Qaeda is the greatest threat to the U.S. Navy (Has The Navy Fallen For The Greatest Hoax?). In […]

Breaking the Fixation on Fossil Fuels

There’s an interesting thought exercise titled Renewable Energy: Shifting Sources of Power initially published in the Government Gazette and reprinted in the Energy Post about the role that renewables can play in global energy policies.  This article triggered some thoughts about what renewables do and should mean to energy policies in the USA. We should think about […]

Sky News: As Gas And Oil Begin To Run Out visits The Baddage Platform

Sky News! very subtly reminding us north sea gas won’t last forever! 12 November 2013

Oil Espionage: How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC

America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ are both spying on the OPEC oil cartel, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal. The security of the global energy supply is one of the most important issues for the intelligence agencies. Documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that both America’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have […]

Kunstler: The Turning

    In these northern climes, this turning into the year’s final quarter feels written in the blood, or at least into the legacy code of culture. The leaves skitter across the streets in an early twilight, chill winds daunt man and dog, the landscape buttons itself up for the long sleep, and human activity […]

Meet The Firm Whose $95 Billion In Assets Keeps Iran’s Ayatollah In Power

Bloomberg may be in hot water for scuttling an article that “might anger China” as exposed over the weekend, but that was only after winning investigative prizes for its series of reports exposing the epic wealth of China top ruling families in 2012: a topic that has received prominence at a time when the forced […]

The Fossil Fuel Welfare State.

While world leaders gather in Warsaw to fight climate change, their governments spend half a trillion dollars on carbon subsidies. When we talk about the Great Energy Shift to a shiny green future, keep in mind that there’s plenty of green bankrolling the dirty power past. That point was driven home yesterday by the release […]

What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation

It is well-known that potassium iodide works to protect against damage from radioactive iodine by saturating our body (the thyroid gland, specifically) with harmless iodine, so that our bodies are unable to absorb radioactive iodine from nuclear accidents. For example, the World Health Organization notes: The thyroid gland is at particular risk from irradiation from […]

Iran nuclear talks fail: Where next for oil?

The fallout from the failure of a high-profile international meeting over Iran’s nuclear ambitions could be most felt in the cost of oil. The Brent crude price of oil rose towards $106 a barrel in early trading Monday morning, following the conclusion of the weekend’s meeting. Any signs that Iran is coming into the international […]

North Dakota’s Salty Fracked Wells Drink More Water to Keep Oil Flowing

It’s well known that water has been key to the shale oil and gas rush in the United States. But in one center of the hydraulic fracturing boom—North Dakota—authorities are finding that the initial blast of water to frack the wells is only the beginning. The wells being drilled into the prairie to tap into […]

Three reasons why America is using less oil

The United States is the largest consumer of oil in the world by a wide margin. In 2012, we used around 18.5 million barrels of oil per day (that’s nearly 800 million gallons !). That represents around 20% of global oil consumption, and is still nearly twice as much oil as China uses. Until the […]

More Oil and Gas Drillers Turn To Water Recycling

When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up. At first, the drought that took hold a few years […]

Baker Hughes Issues Force Majeure in Iraq

Baker Hughes Incorporated announced Monday that a protest incident by local residents occurred last Saturday at a subsidiary’s facility near Basrah, Iraq. No injuries were suffered and the facility was secured. The incident is currently under investigation. Due to the significant disruption of business, Baker Hughes has suspended operations in Iraq, and has issued force […]

Dmitry Orlov Reviews “Collapsing Consciously”

Carolyn Baker’s CollapsingConsciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times is perhaps the most approachable book on collapse you are likely to find. Compared to Jarred Diamond’s Collapse, which weighs in at just over 600 pages, Baker’s is well under 200. And yet in these few pages Baker manages to tackle a topic which Diamond studiously avoids: […]

Jeremy Leggett: “Make No Mistake, This Is An Energy Civil War”

Jeremy Leggett’s new book ‘The Energy of Nations: risk blindness and the road to renaissance‘ is an inspirational, page-turning telling of the evolving tale of peak oil, climate change, and economic crisis, and how the three issues intertwine and interweave. I found it gripping, and what comes through strongly is firstly the huge potential of […]

Faith and trust in the system is collapsing

I began reading Dimitry Orlov’s recent publication, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit, last week and it has got me thinking about his thesis with respect to the revelations around the U.S. surveillance system being used globally by the-powers-that-be (both corporate and political), in combination with the ongoing exposure of manipulation of various markets and […]

Peak Oil : A Look At “Peak Demand” # 5

U.S. oil demand rose 2.7% year-on-year in September to 18.571 million barrels a day, reflecting modest economic improvement in the world’s biggest oil consumer, the American Petroleum Institute said Friday. For the entire third quarter, demand gained 1.7% from a year earlier, to 18.909 million barrels a day, the trade group said. ‘Demand for petroleum […]

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