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

<p>-US presidential debates' great unmentionable: climate change<br />
-Energy &amp; the Election<br />
-Ten Charts That Make Clear The Planet Just Keeps Warming</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-24/climate-oct-24">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/May Boeve-Photo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>May Boeve calls herself a commoner because she wants "to be part of a movement that’s trying to create something different than what we stand to inherit right now."</p>

<p>-Insight: Is Ohio's "secret" energy boom going bust?<br />
-Russia Off Limits to Big Oil After BP Wins Putin Approval<br />
-Delta Boys: Powerful Documentary Chronicles Niger Delta Oil Struggle</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-24/oil-oct-24">read more</a></p>

<p>-Whistleblower forced investigation of TransCanada Pipelines<br>-Aging Pipeline Poses Threat to Great Lakes, Report Says<br>-Enbridge, B.C. pipeline spat gains new traction</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-22/pipeline-safety-oct-22">read more</a></p>

<p>You are not alone if you think it's odd that Canada--the world's ninth largest exporter of crude oil and petroleum products and the main supplier of oil imports to the United States--is itself a longtime oil <em>importer</em>, importing more than 40 percent of its oil needs this year. That may be set to change.</p>

<p><img src="http://www.culturechange.org/cms/images/stories/CornfieldShutterstockcomTHUMB.jpg" width="100" height="57" align="left" hspace="6" alt="Image">Bioplastics are simply plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, like plants and microorganisms, whereas conventional plastics are synthesized from non-renewable fossil fuels, either oil or natural gas.

<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 remained steady this week as the closure of the Keystone pipeline in the US to address possible safety issues balanced bearish news on the Chinese economy.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/scapegoat.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="69" /></span>The energy world portrayed in the debates—in which coal is “clean” and oil and gas companies will lead the U.S.

<p>-Congress applies pressure to BP over Gulf oil sheen<br />
-US Oil Rig Boom Levelling Off?<br />
-Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big Oil<br />
-Deepwater Permits in U.S. Gulf Exceed Pre-BP Spill Level</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-17/us-oil-oct-17">read more</a></p>

<p>An analysis of Leonardo Maugeri's optimistic forecasts on oil production, which have been trumpeted in the media. </p>
<p>Jean Laherrère, a retired petroleum engineer, worked 37 years for TOTAL on exploration and production of oil and gas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-10-16/comments-maugeris-oil-revolution-part-ii">read more</a></p>

<p>-How To Destroy Rivers Communities Softly, Softly<br />
-Nigeria oil spills: Shell rejects liability claim<br />
-Top Kill [Afternoon Drama]<br />
-Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects<br />
-Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier<br />
-Richmond Refinery Fire Unites Communities Divided</p>

<p>But there is a curious sensation around. You know, it is like one of those disaster movies; those where you know that the tsunami will arrive, or the dam will burst, or the volcano will erupt right under Los Angeles. Before the catastrophe, you see people worried about their everyday things; oblivious of the impending disaster.

<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 />
-The Middle East<br />
-IEA Reports<br />
-Fuel Prices<br />
-Quote of the Week<br />
-The Briefs</p>

<p>With gasoline scaling $4 a gallon recently, plans announced last week by international oil giant BP to export U.S.-produced crude oil ought to have Americans howling. For such a plan to be good energy policy--rather than merely profitable for the oil industry--the United States would have to be producing more than enough oil to meet its own needs.