A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Iraq
-Iran
-Power shortages
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

Earth Day Network is organizing a huge event on the Mall in Washington D.C. on April 25.

-Ritter OKs bill on natural-gas power plants
-Three themes emerge from Algeria’s gas exporters’ meeting
-Gas exporters push for prices to be linked to crude
-A contrarian makes another call – this time, natural gas
-UK natural gas storage: The politics, and the pundits

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Principle mechanisms driving collapse
We currently live within an integrated complex globalised economy. We have framed the process in which this occurs as a catastrophic bifurcation, driven by a series of reinforcing positive feedbacks. The final point will be a de-globalised (localised) economy of much reduced complexity.

It's fair to say that lot of people, from shale gas operators to Pennsylvania state revenue collectors, see $$$ every time they think about the Marcellus shale. Only recalcitrant environmentalists worried about polluted drinking water do not salivate at the prospect that many years of U.S. gas supply will come from the Marcellus. Today I will not deal with the environmental issues.

The notion of ‘peak demand’ is often invoked to suggest that the US or global economy is somehow less in need of affordable oil today or that Americans are simply finding car ownership passé.

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Isolating Iran
-Defense turns pessimistic
-Energy stat of the week
-Briefs

I'm sure many of you are aware that there's been an enormous amount of hype accompanying the coming Shale Gas Revolution.

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Concerns are mounting about peak oil, and there continues to be much debate over when the peak will be reached, whether a plateau can be sustained or whether the onset of decline would occur quickly, whether we will hit peak demand before we hit peak supply, etc.

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A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-International Energy Agency

As Paul Krugman's New York Times Magazine cover story on environmental economics, "Building the Green Economy," was ricocheting around the enviro blogosphere last week, t

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China's drought
-Venezuela's power crisis
-Oil prices and economic recovery

One of the world’s foremost educators on Peak Oil, Richard Heinberg, in an exclusive interview for MMNews: “We are currently seeing the end of economic growth as we have known it.” Further on, he talks about the financial / economic crisis, monetary changes vis-à-vis a shrinking energy supply, and the Century of Declines: “Peak Everything.”

A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Droughts
-Eruption in Kyrgzstan

In this final installment of the Minimum EROI series we calculate the minimum EROI required from our energy sources to support the current transportation infrastructure of the U.S.

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