Peak energy? What peak energy?

One of the other lies told by Watermelons – when they’re not bleating about the fast-fading ‘crisis’ of “Man-Made Global Warming” – is that the earth is fast running out of scarce resources. “Even if AGW isn’t quite as true as we pretended it was a few years ago, that’s still no excuse for not […]

North, South Korea exchange fire

South Korea – North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter. The skirmish began when Pyongyang warned the South to halt military drills in the area, […]

Obama Administration ‘Hiding’ Massive Saudi Arms Deal

The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal. The massive arms deal would be the single largest sale […]

Saudi king to seek medical treatment in U.S.

Saudi Arabia’s elderly King Abdullah will leave for the United States Monday for medical checks for a back ailment, and Crown Prince Sultan is returning from holiday abroad, state media said Sunday. Western diplomats in Riyadh said the prince’s return indicate that kingdom, the which has no political parties or elected parliament, is trying to […]

Peak Oil: why the Pentagon is pessimistic

“Twilight in the desert” is a book summing up the arguments of a Texan oil banker who suggests that Saudi Arabia is overestimating its future oil production capacity. I’ve learned through the American Department of Defense that this book is the source of two recent Pentagon reports envisaging a severe lack of oil starting in […]

Oil shock warning to government from UK business

An industry taskforce has called on the government to act to protect the UK economy against a new threat of rising oil prices. A consortium of British business, including retailers Kingfisher and transport group, Stagecoach, say the UK must prepare for the next oil shock. It says not to do so would present energy security […]

Iraqi Political Maneuverings

Among the sovereign ministries, Oil appears to be the biggest prize, with all three blocks angling for it. The current oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, is part of Maliki’s State of Law coalition. “Of course we are thinking of the Oil Ministry,” said Kamal Saidi, MP and top ally of Maliki, “But will the political agreement […]

IEA urges G20 to end fossil-fuel subsidies

The International Energy Agency wants to wean the world off fossil-fuel subsidies that it says artificially inflate global energy demand. The agency is urging Group of 20 nations to slash their estimated $312-billion (U.S.) in annual support. G20 leaders, who will be meeting in South Korea this week, have committed in the past to phase […]

Carbon Taxes Are Here (Even If You May Not Know It.)

Today I received a note under the door. It says there is going to be “a mandatory energy savings audit of the entire community.” The memo says this is “good news” because “the audit will take approximately less than 1 hour per unit and will be completed at NO COST to you.” It is not […]

That Vision Thing Again

“America’s infrastructure needs are dauntingly large, complex and urgent. Ultimately, if we are to regain not only economic stability but also prosperity, if we are to remain a creative and competitive nation, we will need to demonstrate the capacity for holistic thinking and integrative action.” [1] “What this election suggests to me is that the […]

Jeff Rubin: Oil and the end of globalization

The video can be viewed at ASPO.TV. You know, knowing the nature of the disease is usually an essential first step to finding a cure. And so too, it is with a recession. Knowing the true nature of a recession goes a long way in helping us to avoid falling into another one. Particularly when […]

Noam Chomsky: No Evidence that Al-Qaeda Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks

Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV: “The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban…they requested evidence…and the Bush administration refused […]

Raytheon to sell up to $4 billion in arms to Saudi

The United States said last month Saudi Arabia wants to spend as much as $60 billion on aircraft, helicopters and other arms, kicking off a spending spree in the Gulf anticipating an escalation of the West’s row with Iran over its nuclear plans. Raytheon, which makes missiles and radar systems, said its share in the […]

US Military Leadership Acknowledge Peak Oil, Develop Alternatives

Two reports this week clearly indicate that the U.S. military is aware of the peak oil threat and is seriously pursuing development of alternative fuel and energy sources. The immediate costs of transporting fuel on the battlefield as well as the long-term costs of foreign oil dependency (and oil scarcity) have prompted a pragmatic shift […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Midterms

As we approach another round of Congressional elections, it is a good time to review how the peaking of the world’s oil supply fits into the American political scene. It has been obvious to anyone who cared to look at the issue that for the last six or seven years something has been seriously wrong […]

Ingredients of Transition: Respectful Communication

The challenge: There are few things more off-putting for newcomers to an organisation, nor more destabilising for the initiative, than for those involved to lose their ability to listen to each other, or to communicate in the without kindness. Any organisation that fails to maintain levels of respectful communication between its members runs the risk […]

Electrification and Expansion of Railroads as a Response to Peak Oil, By Alan S. Drake

One of the quickest and most effective responses to the realities of a post-Peak Oil economy is to electrify and expand the main-line railroads (about 35,000 miles in as little as 6 years) and later the busy branch lines (another 35,000 miles). The railroads burn slightly less than 300,000 b/d and inter-city trucking uses about […]

ASPO-USA: A Citizen’s Guide to an Oil Free Economy

First Chapter of Serialization – A draft soliciting comments An American Citizen’s Guide to an Oil-Free Economy A How-To Manual for Ending Oil Dependency With valuable bonus information on Saving Our Economy, Our Planet and Strengthening Our National Security by Alan S. Drake Foreword “Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18 […]

China’s Pipelineistan “War”

Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009.  That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China’s far west. Hyperbole did not deter the […]

DEBBIE COOK: A Life Dedicated to Peak Oil Awareness

Debbie Cook served eight years on the Huntington Beach, California City Council, serving as Mayor in 2002 and 2008. She held leadership positions on many regional boards and commissions including the Southern California Association of Governments, League of California Cities, and California Desalination Task Force. As the Democratic Party nominee for the 46th Congressional race […]

Surprise! I’m your new President-for-Life: The post-peak military coup & beyond

Our military appears to be taking the risks of imminent peak oil shocks seriously. Our ‘civilian’ government, deep in the thrall of corporate short-term profiteers, appears incapable of processing such risks. When the shocks come like a kick to our collective American gut, I suspect that only one of these entities may survive. Guess which […]

U.S. Military Plan: Get Off Oil By 2040

In September, the Center for New American Security (CNAS) issued a 36-page study entitled Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era (PDF). Now if the title weren’t suggestive enough, the target date of 2040 — 30 years from now — should set off klaxons from Maine to Guam. Prepared […]

The Military Perspective of Peak Oil Risks

The recent leak of a German military report on peak oil has generated much interest among peak oil analysts. The study was written by the Future Analysis department of the Bundeswehr Transformation Center, and is entitled “Peak Oil: Implications of Resource Scarcity on Security”. While some analysts view the German study as significant, others have […]

WPC’s participants call for ‘visible, transparent’ global governance

The participants in the third World Policy Conference (WPC) called, on Saturday in Marrakech, for a “visible and transparent” global governance in order to find pragmatic and practical solutions to the issues challenging today’s world. Speaking at the first plenary session on “Population, environment and health”, the participants underlined the interaction between demographic trends, climate […]

A Peak Oil Lament

In conjunction with the recent ASPO annual conference in Washington, two articles (here and here) were offered on the subject of getting the Peak Oil message out, and what some of the strategies might be, given that, as the article by Molly Davis suggested: “… almost all of the messaging experts say the movement’s narrative […]

New Zealand Parliament peak oil report: The next oil shock?

Introduction The US Department of Energy (DoE) calls oil “the lifeblood of modern civilisation”. Around 86 million barrels (13.7 billion litres) are consumed each day. Oil supplies 37 percent of the world’s energy demand, including 40 percent of New Zealand’s energy demand. It powers nearly all of the world’s transportation, without which production and trade […]

EPA raises allowable ethanol limit to 15%

The US Environmental Protection Agency partially waived its 10% limit on ethanol in motor fuels, allowing up to 5% more for model year 2007 or newer cars and light trucks. Fuel ethanol advocacy organizations said the move fell short, while the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association and American Petroleum Institute criticized it. Gregory M. Scott, […]

Chicken Little and government regulations: The sky is always falling

Over the last several months, the American Petroleum Institute, among other industry groups, have mounted a full-court press against several Obama administration proposals and initiatives in Congress, including Environmental Protection Administration rules to tighten federal standards for ozone; proposals to eliminate oil industry tax breaks; EPA’s plans  to control greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act; […]

White House Lifts Ban on Deepwater Drilling

The Obama administration lifted its moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil and gas on Tuesday, after imposing new rules intended to prevent another disaster like the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in American history. “We have made and continue to make significant progress in reducing the risks […]

Iran may be ready for nuclear talks by late October

Iran is ready to hold talks with six major powers over its nuclear program “in late October or early November,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday. “We think late October or early November will be an appropriate date for the talks by the representatives of Iran and 5+1 countries,” Mottaki told a news conference. […]

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