Peak Oil News and Articles

News, Commentary. and Links

100DollarOil -- Profiting from the Coming Oil Crisis
321 Energy -- energy market reports
Alternative Energy: News -- Consolidated News Links: Alternative Energy News and Renewable Energy News
ASPO: Association for the Study of Peak Oil
Bloomberg.com: Energy Prices -- current prices for oil, natural gas, gasoline, heating oil, and electricity
BP: Statistical Review of World Energy 2008
China-Iran Energy Relations
The Community Solution
Culture Change
Culture Change: The fall of petroleum civilization -- from the Culture Change site
Drydipstick.com -- "a peak oil metadirectory"
Dieoff -- limited alternatives as fossil fuels are depleted
Empty Wells -- "This site is intended to be a source of balanced information on the decline of oil and gas output and its consequences."
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream (movie site)
Energy Bulletin -- news and articles about oil and other resources
Energy Export Databrowser -- for exploring:
- Where are oil & gas produced?
- Where are oil & gas consumed?
- How has this changed?
Energy Tribune
From the Wilderness -- Site by Michael Ruppert
CRUDE OIL: Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production -- GAO Report
Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting For A Post Carbon World
GOOGLE Search for "Peak Oil" in the News
GOOGLE Search for "Peak Oil" on the Web
Green Car Congress -- "Technologies, issues and policies for sustainable mobility."
Health and Energy
Hubbert Peak of Oil Production
Investor's Diary of Selected Readings on Peak Oil and Oil Prices
It's about the Oil
James Howard Kuntsler
Lifeaftertheoilcrash.net -- "Deal with Reality, or Reality will Deal with You" (Matthew Savinar)
New Urbanism
ODAC: The Oil Depletion Analysys Center
Oil Crisis -- The Coming Global Oil Crisis
The Oil Depletion Resource Page
The Oil Drum -- peak oil blog
Oil Empire -- alleged links between war on trror and peak oil
OilAnalytics
Oil.com -- Oil and gas news
Oilcrash.com -- by Robert Atack
Peak Oil Action -- "People working together to raise awareness about oil depletion and to prepare for a post fossil-fuel age"
Peak Oil - Films to Wake the Sleeping
Peak Oil News and Information -- "Peak Oil News and Information: A resource for the latest news about the coming peak oil crash and peak oil survival"
Peak Oil Scenarios -- "Scenarios for the Future of Oil" from "Polyanna" to "Head for the Hills"
Peakoil.com -- news and message boards
Peakoil.org -- links and articles
Planetforlife.com -- " a family of websites devoted to several aspects of the coming world energy crisis"
Policy Pete: Petroleum Policy and Geopolitics
Post Carbon Institute -- "Learning to Live in a Low Energy World"
Powerswitch -- "is dedicated to raising awareness of the impending & permanent decline of cheap oil supply"
Simmons and Company -- Matthew Simmons, energy investment research
Surviving Peak Oil -- "Grass Root Ideas to Survive"
Truthout -- Environment Links
Transition Culture: An Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
A View from the Peak -- "Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof"
Wolf at the Door -- "The Beginner's Guide to Oil Depletion"
Worldoil.com -- Information Center

Articles and Presentations

$80 Oil, Here We Come!!! -- by Bill Powers
2005 oil outlook: Is this the year when demand outstrips supply? -- Matthew R. Simmons
*Another picture that tells a story
The Big Picture -- by John J. Riley
China's Quest for Energy Security -- by Erica Strecker Downs
Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US -- by Dmitry Orlov
The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies -- by
W. Zittel, J. Schindler (pdf file)
The Disastrous Local and Global Impacts of Tropical Biofuel Production -- by Lucas J. Patzek and Tad W. Patzek (3/06/07)
Durango Bill's Energy Analysis: The Great Rollover Juggernaut:World Oil Depletion and the Inevitable Crisis
The End of Cheap Oil -- by Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrère,
Scientific American, March 1998 (also, a pdf version)
The End of the Age of Oil -- by David Goodstein
Energy Prospects after the Petroleum Age -- Deutsche Bank Research (pdf file)
Financial Sense Online: Recognition, Revaluation, & Reallocation -- by Jim Puplava
Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields -- By Jeff Gerth
Germany Launches Its Transition To All Renewables -- by Donald Aitken
The Global Nutcracker Called Peak Oil -- by Jan Lundberg
Greatest Oil Reserves by Country, 2006
Heading For Peak: Skrebowski's Oilfield Megaprojects Update
Hubbert on the Nature of Growth -- by M. King Hubbert
Inevitable Oil Squeeze Draws Near -- by David R. Francis
Iraq and the Problem of Peak Oil -- by F. William Engdahl
Jimmy Carter's Undelivered Speech on Energy (1979)
Living with the Age of Entropy -- by George Monbiot (at Monbiot.com)
The Long Emergency -- by James Howard Kunstler
Market Failure: Global Warming and Peak Oil -- by Bill Henderson
More on the Oil Crisis -- by Glenn R. Morton
The New U.S. - British Oil Imperialism -- by Norman D. Livergood
The Oil Crash and You -- two page summary of peak oil data by Bruce Thomson (.pdf) and html version
Oil Depletion -- by David Delaney
Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran -- by Michael T. Klare
Oil History -- Introduction to Oil History, by Samuel T. Pees
Oil in Iraq -- from the Global Policy Forum
Oil on Ice
Oil Price outlook: Over a Barrel: Complacency and the Threat of Diminishing Oil Reserves -- by Charles Whall
Oil Wars -- by David Chapman
Oil Wars: U.S. military is being remolded into an oil-protection force -- by Michael T. Klare
Peak Oil -- Presentation at the Technical University of Clausthal, by C.J.Campbell
Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress -- by Roscoe Bartlett
Peak Oil Theory -- by Noam Chomsky
Peak Oil 'To Do' List: Why We Should Do These Things Anyway -- by Kurt Cobb
Peak Oil UK: Entering the Age of Oil Depletion -- 25 April 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland: Conference Proceedings
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management -- report sponsored by the Department of Energy and written by Robert L. Hirsch
*Petrocollapse - chaos or sustainability -- by Jan Lundberg
Pipeline dream: The emerging connection between oil plans and the 9-11 attacks -- by William Rivers Pitt
Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game -- by Pepe Escobar (in Asia Times)
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century -- by Dmitry Orlov:
- Part One of Three
- Part Two of Three
- Part Three of Three
Sixty Days, Next Year -- by C. Haynes
Twilight in the Desert: The Fading of Saudi Arabia’s Oil -- Presentation by Matthew Simmons
What happens when oil does peak? -- by Joel Bainerman
*What the mainstream media are not telling you about the run up in oil prices -- by Jeffrey J. Brown
Will declining oil production plunge our planet into a Depression? -- by Ronald R. Cooke
Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil -- by Norman Church

More Recent Articles

Big Oil in, stability out under new Iraqi law -- by Antonia Juhasz and Raed Jarrar
China's Car Sales Forecast to Rise 20 Percent in 2007 (Xinhua)
Food or Fuel? The Ethanol Scam -- by Robert Bryce
Get Ready for the Next Oil Price Surge -- by Jay Taylor
Great risk in our oil delusion -- by Simon Ratcliffe
High gas pump prices no longer deter U.S. drivers -- by Clifford Krauss
The Hydrogen Hoax -- by Robert Zubrin
Iran planning to stop using U.S. dollar to price oil, central bank governor says
Northern exposure: As the Arctic melts, vast deposits of oil and gas may be opened up for exploration. Will an Arctic without ice only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels? (Boston Globe)
A Nosedive Into the Desert (decline in Saudi oil production) -- by Stuart Staniford
Peak Oil, China, & India Will Send Oil Prices to the Moon -- Jay Taylor
Peak Oil: An Update -- by: Ryan McGreal
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil (Financial Times) -- by Carola Hoyos
Tapped Out: World oil demand is surging as supplies approach their limits -- from National Geographic (June, 2008)
Total, Shell Chief Executives Say `Easy Oil' Is Gone (Update1) -- by Stephen Voss and Tara Patel
US military oil pains -- by Sohbet Karbuz
US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal -- by Pepe Escobar
We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars -- by James Howard Kunstler
What Do Falling Oil Prices Tell Us about War with Iran, the Elections, and Peak-Oil Theory -- by Michael T. Klare

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