<p>-Saudi Arabia Can Raise Output 25% If Needed, Naimi Says<br />
-Tech Talk - Going Back to the First Look at Saudi Arabian Oil Production<br />
-Saudi Arabia sends tankers to US with pledge to bring down oil price<br />
-FACT CHECK: Does more US drilling ease gas pump pain? Math, history show that hasn't happened<br />
-Tapping Petroleum Reserve has gotten trickier

<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>Finally, a plausible explanation for the Obama-Cameron political orgy &mdash; 'love-in' doesn't quite do it &mdash; in Washington this week.

<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 midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:<br />
-Developments this week</p>

<p>America's movement toward empire was anything but straightforward, not least because of the deep divisions among regional settlement patterns sketched out in last week's post. Those divisions drove an equally profound split between competing modes of expansion -- a split that finally exploded into America's most costly war.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/rising-oil_0.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>In the spring of 2011, when Libyan oil production -- over 1 million barrels a day (mpd) -- was suddenly taken offline, the world received its first real-time test of the global pricing syst

<p>The principal cause of higher prices -- a fundamental shift in the structure of the oil industry -- cannot be reversed, and so oil prices are destined to remain high for a long time to come.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://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 />
-The Iranian Confrontation<br />
-Gasoline prices<br />
-China's coal<br />
- Quote of the Week</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>For the oil industry this was CERAweek.

<p>- Stop blaming oil speculators and start listening to them: A war with Iran would devastate the economy<br />
- We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran<br />
- Oil creeps toward top of Asia’s economic worry list<br />
- 10th ASPO-International Conference in Vienna May 30 - June 1<br />
- Ölreserven: Der "Doomsday" war gestern</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 midweekly roundup of 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/220px-Braun_Hormus_UBHD.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="94" /></span>About a month ago, when Iranian officials started venting the idea of closing the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, Western media was prompt in reviewing the events of 1981

<p>Whenever North Americans fill up their vehicles with gasoline these days they should reflect on their ongoing contribution to the dysfunctional status of petro states and the Islamic Republic of Iran in particular.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-03-05/iran-canada-and-petro-state">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://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 Iranian confrontation<br />
-Gasoline and election 2012<br />
-A New EIA Report on East Coast Refining</p>

<p>- NYT: Obama Warns Against ‘Loose Talk of War’ With Iran<br />
- Heinberg: $5 Gas, Iranian Poker, and the Peak of 'Peak Oil' Denial<br />
- Glenn Grenwald: Iran, Threats and the UN Charter<br />
- 2600 years of history in one object<br />
- Chomsky: What Are Iran’s Intentions?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-03-05/iran-oil-and-threat-war-march-5">read more</a></p>

<p>- Global mining boom is leading to landgrab, says report<br />
- Do Environmentalists Have an Interest in Who Controls Oil Resources?<br />
- Deforestataion, agroecology and Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-03-03/whose-resources-march-3">read more</a></p>