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<p>Global oil production has been on a plateau, at historically high prices, for so long now that it seems unlikely that it will ever resume sustained growth at the rates we saw in the decades prior to 2005. The only possible outcomes are prolonged stagnation, which some like to call the “bumpy plateau”, or decline of global production.

<p>The latest twists and turns in the saga of the Greek debt crisis are signs that the brief honeymoon the Fund enjoyed in the wake of the “Great Recession” has ended.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-11-15/gridlock-in-europe">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/aspologo_0.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>A midweek update.</p>
<div class="image-clear"></div><p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-11-15/peak-oil-notes-nov-15">read more</a></p>

<p>Yes, the most effective way to slow climate change is to shrink the economy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-11-15/you-can-t-say-that">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/shutterstock-energy-puzzle-blog-sq.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>What we really need is to invest our capital (both financial and sweat) in community-owned, distributed, and small-scale renewable energy. Why?

<p>If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is the confused position of consumer capitalism today, which has a fetish for economic growth but no answer to the question of what that growth is supposed to be <i>for</i>.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/costa-welcome-to-clone-town.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="63" /></span>Yesterday was a day that produced the most extraordinary news.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/CASSE-logo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="77" height="100" /></span>Environmental journalists are like doctors. Doctors run from patient to patient, harried, dealing with symptoms more than causes.

<p>In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO -USAlogo80.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="80" /></span>A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:<br />
-Oil and the global economy<br />
-The Middle East<br />
-China<br />
-Europe<br />
-Quote of the week<br />
-Briefs</p>

<p>AP Wire--As it heads rapidly towards energy independence, the US has been dubbed "The New Middle East" by Energy Department officials, hoping desperately that it will be true.

<p>-Narcissism, Consumerism and the End of Growth<br />
-Spain's next threat: Losing 20% of its economy<br />
-How Transition is starting to rebuild Ontario<br />
-Amid the Echoes of an Economic Crash, the Sounds of Greek Society Being Torn</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-26/economics-oct-26">read more</a></p>

<p>On October 21, 2012, the New York Times published an article delving in depth into the relationships between large Wall Street investment banks and shale gas operators. The article is outstanding but so much more needs to be said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-25/financial-co-dependency-how-wall-street-has-kept-shale-gas-alive">read more</a></p>