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With oil and food costs rising, it looks like 2008 all over again 19 Feb 2011 | 07:20 am
History repeats itself: food riots are breaking out across the poorer nations, the Middle East is in turmoil and Brent crude has passed the $100 mark – 2011 is opening just like 2008 did. It was a si...
Peak oil, climate change, political turmoil: the lesson from Egypt 16 Feb 2011 | 06:12 am
Were the Egyptian people that bravely took to the streets to overthrow a tyrannical regime taking part in the world’s first peak oil revolution? It seems like out and out hyperbole at first. Hosni Mu...
Oil ‘demand has met supply’ – Saudi Arabia (via Wikileaks) 12 Feb 2011 | 05:12 pm
Wikileaks may have told us what we already knew – that Saudi oil reserves are greatly inflated – but the reports also portray leaders of the highly secretive petro-state feeling “under the gun” as the...
Oil be back! 11 Feb 2011 | 11:44 am
It started with a glut of freelance work, followed by a bout of soul-searching about the blog that could have been confused with acute laziness. . . essentially I’ve taken a four-month vacation from w...
Military reports leading the charge in peak oil debate 2 Oct 2010 | 03:22 am
Another military report is targeting future oil supply concerns. Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Environment, published September 27, is the third m...
Oil analyst tells Forbes: Peak oil by 2017 30 Sep 2010 | 04:02 pm
Respected oil analyst Charles Maxwell has told Forbes – and with it the North American business establishment – to brace itself for peak oil by “2017 or 2018.” Maxwell (left) is rapidly becoming the...
UK government's oil shock warning 29 Sep 2010 | 08:01 am
A UK government minister is preparing for a coming global oil shock – a possible doubling of the price of oil. As Monday’s UK Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, "Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, told ...
Book review: Peak of the Devil 24 Sep 2010 | 06:01 am
It has the greatest title of any peak oil publication I’ve yet come across – but does Peak of the Devil live up to the promise? The 232-page book will be published by Satya House Publications in Octo...
Battle of the think tanks in peak oil reports 11 Sep 2010 | 10:02 am
Two think tanks, on different sides of the world, published peak oil reports earlier this month – generating very different levels of media and web coverage. A draft study prepared for the German mil...
Exponentially on purpose: a century-and-a-half of ignored warnings 4 Sep 2010 | 06:20 am
The peak oil debate is a case of history repeating itself: people have been ignoring warnings about exponential use of finite resources for a century and a half. The concept of peak oil, based on the...
