<p>As much as a quarter of Libyan oil output has been shut down, Reuters calculations showed on Wednesday, as unrest prompted oil companies to warn of production cuts in Africa's third-largest producer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-24/libyan-oil-grinding-halt">read more</a></p>

<p>Protesters in the Arab world have much in common with those reacting to austerity across Europe, as well as the millions who have mobilised in support of ending poverty in the South. What we may be witnessing is an emerging public voice in favour of a fundamental reordering of global priorities.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/storyimages_1296068620_agriculturefoodincrisis.thumbnail.jpg_640x631_310x220" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="71" /></span>-Mexico goes back to the land<br>-Corn's Domino Effect<br>-Stop the global land grab

<p>Libya is one of the smaller oil exporters in OPEC. They were producing 1.65 million barrels per day in 2010 (through October) according to EIA data. However, the very serious political upheaval in this North African country poses a genuine threat to that production.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-22/oil-and-revolt-libya-%E2%80%94-what-if">read more</a></p>

<p>Maybe western leaders are afraid that, having seen what it is like when a people dictate to their government what it should do for them, rather than the reverse, we might start to take our own rights back, wholesale.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-22/our-revolution-too">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Algerian-civil-war-missing2.thumbnail.gif" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="68" /></span>As elsewhere in the region, the main foreign powers involved -- France, Spain, and the US -- don't seem to care much as long as the oil and gas flows, the country implements

<p>Oil prices are going through the roof today, and gasoline prices at the pump will follow, as we get the first regime-rattling news in a major oil-producing state. What's happening is that the sketchy news out of Libya makes the country look like it's on fire - Col. Muammar Qaddafi may be spending his last days in power.

<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>Brent crude surged to $104 this week as anti-government protests spread to Libya and Bahrain, prompting a violent reaction from the authorities in both countries.

<p>Several prominent organizations dealing with peak oil, have just launched a petition drive urging President Obama to mark the anniversary of the Gulf spill with a major speech to the American people on the subject of peak oil.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-17/urge-obama-say-%E2%80%9Cpeak-oil%E2%80%9D-april-20">read more</a></p>

<p><span class="inline inline-right"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/ASPO.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="80" height="75" /></span>A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:<br />
-Developments this week<br />
-Budget struggles in Washington</p>

<p>-How to build a left-wing Tea Party: A guide for Americans<br>-Life in the Water<br>-Paradox: Linchpin of the Long Emergency</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-09/deep-thought-feb-9">read more</a></p>

<p>- How Cyber-Pragmatism Brought Down Mubarak<br>- Another Step Toward Mainstreaming Nonviolence<br>- How to Build a Progressive Tea Party <br>- Wendell Berry Joins Retired Coal Miners and Residents in Kentucky Capitol Sit-in</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-13/making-change-feb-13">read more</a></p>

<p>All is not rosy in global cities where inequalities reach record levels and put such cities at risk. There may consequently be more cycles of disorder and violence if the financial and economic sectors continue to dominate the cities’ agendas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-11/power-and-powerlessness-global-cities">read more</a></p>

<p>The dissertation is a case study of the first official Transition Town, the English market town of Totnes, long a popular tourist destination known for its alternative culture.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image_preview_42.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>These communities are adopting laws that, taken together, are forming an alternative structure to the global corporate economy.