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Gasoline Shortages
2008-09-27 04:02:00 This has been brewing for a while, since Hurricane Ike wrecked havoc, but I have not reported on it at all. I’ve simply been too busy. U.S. gasoline inventories lowest since 1967: EIA Post-Ike gas shortage may take weeks to end Gas shortages: get ready for more Major Gas Shortage in North Carolina Gas Shortage Fuels Fights Mexico’s Oil Products Falls ...
New Coup D?Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
2008-09-26 16:45:00 Steve Lendman’s blog has a long article worth reading, on the New Coup D’Etat Rumblings in Venezuela. The oil Empire is undoubtedly slobbering up to it’s stinking armpits in the hopes that it can steal another nations resources.
Peak Oil, Politics, and U.S. Energy Supply
2008-08-29 16:13:00 Western nations - the U.S., in particular - are now experiencing the bow wave of a profound change in the current and future availability of oil. According to recently published data, oil output from all major Western oil companies is…
By: Jutia Group
When Peak Oil and Peak Population Implode the Earth
2008-08-16 11:23:00 (Note: This is a mass media taboo subject)Reader please watch the important videos at the endof this text, to get a complete picture of the info presented here.As the British historian, Toynbee, wrote ... ?The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise and fall of an empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing population against a declining resource base, the United States will be defeated from within.?*The Oil Crash Documentary(See this Trailer first)Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest in the world right behind China and India, and unable to support its population except by taking resources from other countries.The Olduvai Theory states that the life expectancy of industrial civilization is about 100 years. The Olduvai Theory Timeline(1930) the beginning of Industrial Civilization(1979) all time peak of world energy production per capita(1999) the end of cheap oil(2000) eruption of violence in the Middle East(2006) all...
House Fire
2008-08-12 02:49:00 I’ve been much too busy to write or even comment lately and tonight is no exception. My neighbors house burned to the ground today, they lost everything, house, cars, boat, all of it. That kept me preoccupied for a bit and a little busy, thought I could help put the fire out, but ...
Nightly Ramble:I’m number two!; FCC;Peak oil and the end of the world
2008-07-23 01:09:00 A second place at OTB’s Caption Contest. Guess Obama’s an easy target. At least Leno will have some fun if Obama wins. So they tossed out Jackson’s fine for her ummm… “Wardrobe Malfunction’? First, this does show, as everything else does, the uselessness of the FCC. But the real killer here is someone actually argued it was an accdient and some idiot wearing a robe agreed with them. I commented the other day about how Toyota was moving out of California… too much liberalism. can’t run a profitable business there. Now the AAA is doing the same… moving out of California, because of the costs involved. Last sane person out of California, turn the lights out, OK? Oh, wait… you won’t need to, I think. Add Rick Moran to the reaction list on the McCain op-ed rejection by the New York Times I mentioned this morning. “The Times is dying. And the story of John McCain’s discarded op-ed is one of the big reasons w...
By: BitsBlog
Tearing It Down - Part II
2008-07-06 05:07:00 [This is Part II, please read Part I first - Admin] It is probably accurate to say that everything humans set out to do, is really done solely for their own benefit. The premises here is that the advancement of humans, over all other forms of life, sentient and non-sentient, and of human possessions and human ...
Tearing It Down - Part I
2008-07-06 02:21:00 [This is Part I, please read this segment first before reading Part II - Admin] In my last post, I said: The ?solution? seems to be to keep everything going, just as it is, as long as possible, with a total lack of foresight on what this is going to mean in the long run. If we ...
Quote
2008-06-26 12:53:00 It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet ...
Riots!
2008-06-18 14:54:00 Hat tip to the Fall of Civilization for this video of riots and protesters over food and fuel prices. It’s kind of weird (to me anyway) you don’t see Amerikans rioting (yet).
We?re Going To Run Out MUCH Faster Then Expected
2008-06-16 16:50:00 [Contribution by Lonewolf] Back by (necessary) demand, “Arithmetic, Population and Energy” aka “consequences of the exponential function”. You MUST understand this to understand the rest of this blog entry. Video, produced in 1994, based on Albert Bartlett’s paper dated from 1973 (which I revisit annually). HEREhttp://video.google.com/vid-eoplay?docid=237619059773189889-6 [oops! Google has removed it] The Most Important Video You Will Ever See ...
Peak Oil Prices
2008-06-05 22:52:00 Looking at history, previous peaks in oil prices have opened up huge profits for a select few investors. The best way to profit in the current oil price trend is investing in oil equipment. No Related Post
By: Jutia Group
Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?
2008-06-04 21:16:00 This is a great video illustrating peak oil. Where we started and where we’re going to finish.
By: Damon Clifford
How Peak Oil-Ready Is Your City?
2008-06-03 20:00:00 Why have gas prices risen to nearly $4 a gallon (or more) in the U.S.? Is it oil speculation? Rising demand? Or the first signs of peak oil? Whatever the cause (and there’s good reason to blame...
By: Green Options
Survival Acres - Questions & Answers
2008-06-01 02:59:00 [This is a fictional interview entry, written to answer some interview requests I’ve received. In the past year, I’ve had about five requests I think from different media outlets. I have turned them all down as a matter of routine. I do not grant interviews anymore, because I’ve little interest in the limelight ...
Will Peak Water Replace Peak Oil?
2008-05-31 04:32:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.The scarcity of fresh water may drive up prices and fines around the world. Already in Barcelona, Spain, you can be fined ?9,000...
By: Green Options
$15 Gasoline Ahead
2008-05-23 01:24:00 From the Oil Drum: Robert Hirsch, author of Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management (a.k.a. the Hirsch Report), appeared on CNBC this morning. He said flat out that new technologies and new drilling won’t solve the peak oil problem, and that we should expect $12-15/gallon gasoline followed by rationing. $15 Gasoline Ahead HOST: ...
Oil Shockwave
2008-05-22 17:11:00 Michael sent me this link, which is pretty interesting. This could be a blueprint for the Cheney junta to take over this country, not at all hard to imagine. The terrorist threat here I think is grossly overexaggerated, one of the main themes in this document. But more importantly is the idea / reality that ...
Peak oil in the main stream media
2008-05-22 16:39:00 Robert Hirschclipped from www.cnbc.com"The prices that we're paying at the pump today are, I think, going to be 'the good old days,' because others who watch this very closely forecast that we're going to be hitting $12 and $15 a gallon, and then, after that, when world oil production goes into decline, we're going to talk about rationing," Robert Hirsch, Management Information Services Senior Energy Advisor, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "In other words, not only are we going to be paying high prices and have considerable economic problems, but in addition to that, we're not going to be able to get the fuel when we want it." Boone Pickens
By: Revolving Doors
Congress Contemplating Pulling a ?Mugabe? to Hide Inflation
2008-05-22 03:54:00 It didn’t take long for Congress to make an emphatic point that it does not understand the value of a free market, or for that matter, that it fails to comprehend the importance of a freely operating pricing mechanism. Said another way, Congress is proving its members to be the economic jackasses they’ve generally ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Congress Contemplating Pulling a “Mugabe” to Hide Inflation", url: "http://www.ernharth.com/vi/200-8/05/21/congressmugabe/" });
Ignoring the Dollar Problem in the Price of Oil
2008-05-19 04:30:00 No doubt, there are quite a few problems behind why oil has jumped above $128 a barrel. Never mind hooey arguments about greedy oil companies that resonate with the economic illiterates among the loudmouth media and the complaining voters. While we don’t have much good to say about any politician on the matter of energy, we ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ignoring the Dollar Problem in the Price of Oil", url: "http://www.ernharth.com/vi/200-8/05/18/ignoring-the-dollar-pro-blem-in-the-price-of-oil/" });
Peak oil and climate change explained to teenagers
2008-05-15 23:13:00 Here's a guy called Brian Kaller giving a talk about peak oil and CC to a large audience of teenagers. His explanations are very straightforward and explicit.Peak oilClimate changeDealing with itRelated:Running on empty (article by Brian Kaller)
By: Revolving Doors
Peak Oil Is Gonna Make It A Big World After All
2008-05-15 19:49:00 In my talks, I have talked a lot about reinventing normal life and in particular our notions of mobility (among other things)? Part and parcel to this idea that it?s a small world. We get this small...
By: Green Options
Open Thread Newz
2008-05-13 17:53:00 House Approves New Property Seizure Law The Truth About Veteran Suicides Eighteen American war veterans kill themselves every day. One thousand former soldiers receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs attempt suicide every month. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. This site looks very interesting - Rogue Government A bunch of contributions here ...
?Fifty Million Farmers? by Richard Heinberg
2008-05-08 17:55:00 “There was a time not so long ago when famine was an expected, if not accepted, part of life. Until the 19th century - whether in China, France, India or Britain - food came almost entirely from local sources and harvests were variable. “In good years, there was plenty - nough for seasonal feasts and for ...
The Myth of Peak Oil
2008-05-07 06:20:00 Peak oil is a scam to create artificial scarcity and drive prices up. Meanwhile, alternative fuel technologies which have been around for decades are intentionally suppressed.Read MoreLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
Peak Oil and the '08 Election
2008-05-04 11:02:00 The headlines this month have been taken by the most insidious of America's vices: black gold. Oil futures are now projected to exceed $100 a barrel until 2016, and continue to sit comfortably near the $115-120 a barrel mark. Many different causes have been blamed for rising prices at the pump, ranging from massive speculation to supply instability in some oil-producing nations. However, one factor must surely be worrisome to most every American: oil companies haven't been getting enough of the stuff out of the ground. Exxon Mobil's $11 billion quarterly profit disappointed Wall Street and investors alike, their shares falling 4 percent on May 1st. The largest oil company in the US has seen stagnant margins in most quarters since 2005 without being able to increase production. In fact, their overall production fell 10 percent. Demand in the US has also contracted 2 percent since the beginning of the credit crunch last summer, so Exxon's profits have been reaped in large part be...
Preparing for the age of peak oil
2008-04-17 15:12:00 In Russia, the problem is not so much a lack of oil but an investment drought. This has been caused by high taxes and hostile treatment of foreign and some domestic companies by a government reasserting control over its energy sector. Russia will have to act quickly if it is to avoid a long-term decline in ...
By: 1913 Intel
Open Thread - Doom News
2008-04-08 17:57:00 Most of these links were submitted by Vaughn, this guy is always sending me tons of info, they’re worth reading: Why food prices will go through the roof in coming months Food riots fear after rice price hits a high Warning over food price ‘time bomb’ Haiti: protesters demand food The cupboard is running dry US, Israel and Canada to Boycott ...
Peak Oil: From Pemex to Petrobras
2008-04-03 16:34:00 Oil and Energy Mexico is struggling with a very important question about its future. Does the country want to be Brazil or Venezuela? On the one hand, you have authoritarian rule and government-controlled natural resources. On the other, you have a liberalization of state control and a booming economy. Hmm. That?s a tough decision. Right now, the president ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peak Oil: From Pemex to Petrobras", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/archive/-2008/04/03/648/" });
By: Jutia Group
Peak oil and aviation
2008-03-23 23:54:00 There is a man aiming to open a new airport in my hometown Uppsala. Considering the oil situation I wonder if his operation is a wise one.
By: Revolving Doors
The Changes We Seek - What Can Be Done - Part I
2008-03-23 04:29:00 I hope this blog entry is one of the most important entries I have ever written, because it is my hope that this will break through some of the gridlock and indecisions and most importantly, the daily time wasters that consume our lives. This blog and many others sources have revealed that huge, cataclysmic changes are ...
Peak oil meets climate change
2008-03-23 00:13:00 Jeremy Legette gives a lecture about peak oil and climate change. In the first part of his talk he gives a straight forward summary of why we should fear climate change. See all segments here. Related:Crude: the incredible journey of oil. Superb documentary on oil and its link to global warming. A must see.
By: Revolving Doors
The real problem
2008-03-10 17:40:00 Today we have this:Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide.Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emis...
Climate Change Impact Assessment of Meath County Development Plan
2008-03-07 14:32:00 We were struck in the last week with the utter absurdity of the government’s approach to climate change. It is now accepted that if the average global temperature rises by more than 2 centigrade then 10’s of millions of people will die and many millions more will be impoverished. Ultimately it could destroy the conditions ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Peak Oil - True or False
2008-03-07 01:52:00 by Stephen Lendman The arguments are so one-sided, it's practically a given that "peak oil" is real and threatening. Or is it? This article examines both sides. It lets readers decide and deals only with supply issues, not crucial environmental ones and the need to develop alternative energy sources. First some background. The name most associated with "peak oil" is M. King Hubbert. He became the world's best known geologist when he worked for Houston-based Shell Oil Company from 1943 to 1964. His theory goes something like this. Oil is a finite resource. Peak oil, or Hubbert's peak, is the point at which maximum world production is reached, after which its rate terminally declines. Hubbert first presented his theory in a February 4, 1949 Science magazine article called "Energy from Fossil Fuels." He gained prominence, however, from his 1956 American Petroleum Institute presentation titled "Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels." In it, h...
My Warning To The World
2008-03-04 00:25:00 [retitled, as I think it is much more appropriate with this title - Admin] I am referring a lot of callers to review some of the data found on this blog, and therefore, am going to state some things here that might be “old ground” for regular readers, but need to put refreshed near the top ...
If everything is so s**t why are you so happy?
2008-03-02 10:47:00 A lot of people have asked why so many things for the majority of people are so bad? Why do we endure spirit sapping commuting, high prices, lack of schools, a desperate housing bubble, corrupt politicians and so on. When FF were re-elected last year there was wonder that people returned the dominant political power ...
By: EastMeath.Org
When Peak Oil and Peak Population Implode the Earth
2008-02-22 17:07:00 (Note: This is a mass media taboo subject)Reader please watch the important videos at the endof this text, to get a complete picture of the info presented here.As the British historian, Toynbee, wrote ... ?The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise and fall of an empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing population against a declining resource base, the United States will be defeated from within.?*The Oil Crash Documentary(See this Trailer first)Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest in the world right behind China and India, and unable to support its population except by taking resources from other countries.The Olduvai Theory states that the life expectancy of industrial civilization is about 100 years. The Olduvai Theory Timeline(1930) the beginning of Industrial Civilization(1979) all time peak of world energy production per capita(1999) the end of cheap oil(2000) eruption of violence in the Middle East(2006) all...
Iran To Open Oil Bourse On Sunday
2008-02-19 00:50:00 This Sunday, apparently. The “big deal” is the U.S. dollar is not welcome. Hard (impossible) to see how this can bode well for the United States, but actually, I’m silently laughing (it hurts my throat to much to do anything more right now).
Planning for development 10% size of Drogheda submitted
2008-02-17 10:43:00 The Tribune reports that planning has been submitted by a developer for 1200 houses on the North side of Drogheda. The development would increase the number of houses in Drogheda by 10% in less than six years. It is part of a massive 7000 houses plan for the “Northern Environs” of Drogheda that could add ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Big Ideas in Engineering
2008-02-16 18:46:00 We love big ideas and we love great engineering. Sadly both are in short supply in East Meath. Anyway we found this website from the American National Academy of Engineering. It is posing the big challenges in engineering for the 21st century. We were very much taken by the challenge to restore and improve urban ...
By: EastMeath.Org
My Day
2008-02-15 20:50:00 I’m really sick today and can hardly speak. This isn’t making callers happy, but there is little I can do about it. I’m all caught up now on orders (shipping from here) and price changes and everything else. I think working long hours didn’t help my health situation, but I’ll recover. There will be a few ...
Big Oil Lies
2008-02-14 17:12:00 Another link from Carolyn I found, but I have to post this here, ’cause it’s a doozy: Simmons, reached by phone in Houston, says he feels equally vindicated?and increasingly alarmed. He based his book largely on information dug up in old technical journals. In recent weeks he has hit the archives again, with thoughts of writing ...
Venezuela Cuts Of Oil Sales to Exxon
2008-02-14 16:57:00 Venezuela has halted sales of petroleum to Exxon Mobile. This is apparently the ‘alternative’ option he took to cutting sales off the the US. Funny how Exxon “brags” about this: “Hugo Chavez is sorely mistaken,” Gheit said. “Exxon buys oil in 35 different varieties — more flavors than Baskin Robbins.”Since Venezuelan oil is a heavier grade ...
Chavez Threatens to Stop Shipping Oil to U.S.
2008-02-11 01:44:00 CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an “economic war” if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets. “If you end up freezing (Venezuelan assets) and it harms us, we’re going to harm you,” Chavez said, turning ...
Peak Oil Maybe true after all
2008-02-01 15:31:00 The industrialised countries’ oil watchdog has admitted that it has been paying insufficient attention to supply bottlenecks as evidence mounts that oil is being discovered more slowly than once expected. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
Big Oil - Still Raping The Planet And The People
2008-02-01 05:01:00 Compare this: Each member of parliament is being offered $5 million dollars to vote for the law, that would give big oil up to 88% of Iraq’s oil income, a deal no other major oil producing country would take without a gun to their head. Big Oil Tries To Bribe Iraqis to this: The Management Rule is the ...
Peak oil game
2008-01-27 00:13:00 Frontlines: Fuel of War"Not too far in the future? The global natural resources are on the brink of depletion. As our economies and our way of life tumble into chaos, the superpowers clash to gain control?"Shooter game for Xbox.
By: Revolving Doors
Shell calls Peak Oil by 2015? sort of
2008-01-25 17:36:00 First it was Jim Mulva from ConocoPhillips. Now the head of Royal Dutch Shell is also seeing, if not Peak Oil, certainly a fundamental supply-demand imbalance: World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according to Royal Dutch Shell. The oil multinational is predicting that conventional supplies will not keep pace with soaring population ... |
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