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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says his state's efforts to build a new energy economy can provide a model for addressing climate change and other challenges facing the country and world.
The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the country's next speculative bubble to burst, a speaker warned Monday at a conference exploring the notion that the world's oil and gas are diminishing rapidly.
Proponents of the "peak oil" theory are in Denver to discuss the impacts of what they say is the quickly fading supply of the world's oil.
Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five yearsSir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.
20 Reasons to WorryFrom MarketWatch, which is fairly mainstream, this is pretty good doom and gloom. Check it out then sound off if you have an opinion.
Plentiful PetroleumI have written about peak oil before in LRC. The most recent piece can be found here. The basic thesis is quite simple: we are not running out of oil. Hubbert is as wrong as wrong can be.
Climate change reality: The Progressive CrisisMaking climate chaos even more pressing is the reality that it interacts with and impacts on every aspect of modern human existence from our water supplies to our food to our health (linkages health, energy, climate change) to our economy to our energy systems.
For those just joining us and to those that are regular visitors of Urban Survival, greetings. This installment is a bit different, more than just a bit longer and its aim a bit more ambitious than normal.
Apple - Movie Trailers - CollapseAmericans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.
'We have already entered peak oil,' IEA source reportedly claimsTwo International Energy Agency whistleblowers have come forward with startling claims about the world's supply of crude oil, according to a report published Tuesday.
The Peak Oil Crisis: $80 a Barrel Last week oil broke out of a months-long trading range and surged to $82 a barrel.
Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics?[this is almost at the end of the article but the rest is worth the read as well]
The Other Peak Oil: Demand from Developed World FallingOil demand in industrialized countries peaked in 2005 and will not reach that high again, a new report predicts
Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions.
Peak Oil: A Theory Running Out Of Gas One year ago, Congress responded to the chorus of Americans calling for more American energy by lifting the ban on offshore drilling. For the first time in a quarter-century, it became legal to drill for more oil and natural gas reserves offshore.
Revolutionary discovery means world may not run out of crudeA team of scientists based at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have made a "revolutionary" discovery about how hydrocarbon is formed, learning that animal and plant fossils are not necessary to form crude oil. The discovery, the scientists say, means that the world wi …
The First Die OffJames Howard Kunster whines about traffic jams and talks about the end of Happy Motoring, coming soon to a freeway near you.
Oil Supplies Running Out; Could Impact Economic RecoveryThe world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned.
Goldman Sachs Predicts Oil to Rise Near $150 a BarrelGoldman Sachs predicts that due to supply destruction, the recovery of the global economy will cause oil prices to spike to where they were in 2008.
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fastWhile the administration wants to spend trillions on non effective programs, the energy fiddle is playing while the world waits to start burning.
The time has arrived, Peak Oil is here. But Peak Oil may explain more than the price of gas at the pump. US forces are littered throughout the energy producing regions of our planet. Yes they have ostensible political reasons but quite possibly those reasons are a sham.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil | Global Public MediaSince the early 1990s, an urban agriculture movement has swept through Cuba, putting this capital city of 2.2 million on a path toward sustainability.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Watching a Mega-CrisisTom Whipple discusses 4 major problems that the US is wrestling with at the moment, all of which are interrelated and exacerbate the other problems:
The Outlook for the Oil PriceThe precipitous fall in oil prices over the past year may just be paving the way for another spike
Prices likely to rise over fears of 'serious oil supply crisis'A prominent Arab energy analyst has warned of a serious oil supply crisis that could trigger a fresh price spike in the absence of sufficient investments in crude capacity development projects.
Costly alternatives may drive up the price of oil"The Stone Age did not end for a lack of stone and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil."
THE UK government would be acting as a climate criminal if it allows a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent to go ahead, say campaign groups.
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