<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 few days ago, I showed the close relationship between growth in world oil consumption and growth in world GDP.

<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 review including:<br />
- Oil and the Global Economy<br />
- Middle East in turmoil<br />
- The drought worsens<br />
- Quote of the Week<br />
- Briefs</p>

<p>-Alarm bells on the longevity of oil wells in Saudi Arabia<br />
-Doubts on Saudi Capacity May Keep Oil Volatile<br />
-How High Oil Prices Will Permanently Cap Economic Growth<br />
-Total speaks out against Arctic oil</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-01/oil-oct-1">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ODAC.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="45" /></span>Oil prices were once again oscillating between the price depressing effects of economic uncertainty and the price enhancing effects of Middle East political uncertainties this week...Saudi Arabia h

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/wealth_of_the_commons_book_cover_260.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="71" height="100" /></span>It has become increasingly clear that we are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born.

<p>Thousands of people surrounded the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on Tuesday to protest austerity measures and the loss of public confidence in elected leaders. The &quot;Occupy Congress&quot; protest came as the conservative administration of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy prepares to unveil further austerity measures on Thursday.

<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 mid-week update on peak oil news, including:<br />
-Developments this week</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/PALM_Garlic.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="56" /></span>The High Pamir and Pamir-Alai mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan form one of the world’s most remote and beautiful landscapes.

<p>So, we are a long way from Sharon Astyk's Nation of Farmers, but it certainly looks like the giant loss of US farm count in the mid twentieth century has stabilized and perhaps now begun some kind of bounce back.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-09-27/number-farms-united-states">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/jacket_us.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="68" height="100" /></span>-Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone Article Was a Hit — So Why Didn’t It Make a Splash?<br>-When Journalists Are Dying to Expose Environmental Plunder<br>-Haiti and the Shock Doctrine</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/sin_maiz1.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="47" /></span>A viable mechanism to reduce fossil fuel CO2 emissions, such as Cap and Share, is a necessary part of any coherent action plan to avoid catastrophic climate change, and end fossil fuel depende

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/counterpower.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="63" height="100" /></span>I recently spoke with Gee about his use of an old and largely forgotten term, whether the climate movement can win, and how true democracy exists within movements and the spaces they create

<p>This sixth-annual conference begins in the morning on Friday November 16 and continues through Sunday afternoon on November 18. The venue is the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The theme of the conference is Vision, Action, Leadership.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/fig01AlicerunningwithTheRedQueen.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="76" /></span>In this post I present the results from an in depth time series analysis from wells producing crude oil (and small volumes of natural gas) from the Bakken (Bakken, Sanish, T

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/global-land-grab-sm.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="72" /></span>-Land grabbing and food sovereignty in West and Central Africa<br />
-Africa: Land, Water and Resource-Grabbing and Its Impact on Food Security