A roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Deepwater Horizon
-Venezuela continues nationalizations
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

For most of their history, labor unions opposed
attempts at loosening immigration laws and often threw their weight
behind restrictionist measures.

-Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
-The Dead Hand of Ronald Reagan Rises in the Gulf
-Here's another fine mess
-The Journey from Anger to Anguish, responding to eco-cide

In this series’ previous post, we discussed making wine at home as a possible solution to wine availability in an age of declining cheap energy. In this the final post of this series, we will discuss in some detail the advantages of home grape growing and wine making.

The future most people are living into is beginning to disappear. The financial crisis threw the first punch, but oil depletion will deliver the knockout blow. The moment people realize that the society they have known their whole life can no longer function the same way without the energy provided by oil, it will become glaringly apparent that the future will be very, very different.

It seems that the increased number (already 10) of locations of persistent joint struggles
reported in the Israeli media, and especially the struggle in Sheikh Jarrah, resurrect the
Israeli radical left. The Friday joint demonstration of about 500 participants in Silwan
against home demolitions was the largest one seen so far.

Mac and Jack, shared with bright, articulate people willing and able to discuss important issues of the day and intermixed with daily physical activity. Is there a better way to live? If so, where can I find it?

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