August 2006

• August 1st - 8th 2006 Peak Oil Articles
  • Oil prices hover near record
  • Kansas could profit from higher oil prices
  • Largest oil field in US shuts down
  • Why is petrol so expensive?
  • Consultant: oil supply still plentiful
  • Reaction to Peak Oil starts close to home
  • Feel the Beat : A Boshian Peak Oil Canvas
  • New Documentary Film on Cuba
  • A Thousand Barrels a Second
  • On the other side of the oil ‘peak’
  • Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water
  • Peak oil and politics
  • Peak Oil Passnotes: A Peak Oil Critique
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Portland Takes the Lead
  • The New Frontier
  • Why Gas Prices Will Remain High.
• August 9th
  • When Oilmen Turn Sour on Crude
  • Oil supply can outpace future demand
  • Q&A with Jeremy Rifkin
  • Predicting peak oil
  • The World at $100 A Barrel
  • Prudhoe Oil Shutdown: Not Half of ANWR
  • Gold up on higher oil prices, weak dollar
  • Mideast, When chaos replaces oil
  • Sugar, oil prices decouple as biofuel stocks grow
  • King Abdullah’s First Year
  • Oil higher on US fuel stocks
  • First alpine satellite oil field in Alaska
  • Time for an energy transformation
  • Author is more a defender of PR
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Energy & Buildings
  • How Portland is planning to deal with peak oil
  • Saudi Oil: Far from Twilight
  • Crude Lifts on Inventory Data
  • TSX holds above 12,000 in late afternoon trading
  • Is the era of easy oil over?
  • Middle East at a crossroads.
• August 10th
  • Health Care Options after Peak Oil
  • The Peak Oil Point has Passed!
  • Peak Oil Passnotes: Yo! Bombs!
  • Today's BP Spill: Timed To Keep Oil Prices Up?
  • Converging Ecological Crises
  • We Can Build A Healthy Global Society
  • A Thousand Barrels a Second
  • Manipulating The Price of Oil.
• August 11th
  • Oil Rises as Travel Concerns Ease
  • We'll need more ethanol in the future
  • The tipping point is here
  • High oil prices due to low output
  • Heated debate over the warming of the planet
  • An Inconvenient 'Incovenient Truth' Truth
  • If Not Supply-Demand, Then What?
  • Discussion: Alternative Forms Of Energy
  • A shift in forces pushing oil prices higher
  • When Everybody Says Oil Is Going Up
  • More bad news at the pump
  • Horses to fission
  • Sip a Hydrocarbonized Big Gulp While You Can
  • The world enters crisis overload
  • The Threatening Deflation-to-Stagflation Scenario
  • The New Frontier
  • Power systems under stress
• August 12th
  • No more business as usual
  • Feel The Beat : A Boshian Peak Oil Canvas
  • The pay zone
  • Some cities are taking up the issue of "peak oil"
  • Will Coal Replace Oil?
  • Mideast violence drives isle gas jitters
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Where is the Washington Post?
  • Story left high cost of oil a mystery
  • Fog of war obscures way ahead for black gold
  • When fuel is the price of champagne
  • Facing Reality In Derrick Jensen's "End Game"
  • Thoreau's views still hold true
  • oil-igarchy
  • Peak experience
  • Oil prices on the up
  • Towards the International Energy Transition Plan
  • Scholar to give talk on curbing U.S. oil addiction
  • Daniel Yergin Day, July 13, 2006
  • Eight ways that modern medicine is oil dependent
  • How quickly unacceptable becomes status quo
• August 13th
  • Facing Reality in Derrick Jensen's 'End Game'
  • Global Oil Output to Surge 25% by 2015
  • A tank of gas, a world of trouble
  • The real price of oil
  • Alternative energy gets mainstream reatment
  • Biofuels May Not Be Sustainability Panacea
• August 14th
  • Oil price spike to end, you can bet on it
  • Peak oil and fragility of global oil supply
  • Fossil fuel addicts beware - we'll soon be past our peak!
  • Oil-addicted America finds a temporary fix in Africa
  • Senior Oil Exec Warns Of Collision With Oil Supply
  • The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

• August 15th
  • Peak Oil and Relocalization in Ohio
  • Facing reality in Derrick Jensen's "End Game"
  • The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide
  • Petroleum: Why We'll Never Run Out
• August 16th
  • Oil binds U.S., Latin nemesis
  • Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities
  • Robert Rapier talks about Vinod Khosla, Proposition 87, peak oil, and the need for transportation electrification
  • American dependence on oil
  • Rough ride after oil production peak
  • Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
  • Kicking Butt by Kicking the Oil Habit
• August 17th
  • Don't go cool on global warming
  • The Politics of Dancing
  • The more precious commodity in 2050: Water or oil?
  • A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
  • Bye Bye Petroleum
  • Coal to oil conversion gaining interest in China, U.S.
  • Mapping The Deal: Talking Locally
  • Prepare for Peak Oil says energy expert
  • Hamilton CNG stoush highlights Govt policy vacuum
  • Oil scenario is scary, except for book sales
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Rethinking America's Cars
  • Sure bet that oil spike can't last
• August 18th
  • From The Wilderness
  • relocalization, permaculture, earth ethics, and bioregionalism
  • Peak oil - get used to it
  • Peak Oil Passnotes: Supply 'Cushionitis'
  • The Price of Oil is Falling and the Oil Patch Drums Are Beating
  • Now America goes cap in hand, as Britain once did
• August 19th
  • Petrol $2 Aus/Litre by Christmas
  • Hirsch on responding to peak oil
• August 20th
  • Unlimited energy for free: Steorn in a teacup?
  • Ford Cutting North American Vehicle Production By 21%
• August 21st
  • The Skanner Blog
  • The new age of sail
• August 22nd
  • ASPO 5. Robert Hirsch scares me out of my wits…
  • ASPO 5. Colin Campbell Puts the Oil Age Into Perspective…
  • ASPO 5. Richard Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
  • CERA's Rosy Oil Forecast – Pabulum to the People
  • Katrina, global warming and peak oil
• August 23rd
  • Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World’s Leading Oil Producer
  • An Open Letter to my Friends in the Media
  • Oil output set to peak, but no fuel shortage
• August 24th
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Conserving Light
  • Peak Oil prophecies: Rise of the eco-engineers
  • They Walk the Line
  • The Promised Land
  • People find ways to live more lightly on Earth
  • Look ahead 50 years to maintain livability
• August 25th
  • Actor/environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., talks about a wide range of environmental and energy issues [Video]
  • Oil crisis by 2010
  • DOE predicts gasoline shortages
  • Peak Oil Passnotes: Peak Pipelines
  • When oil dries up
• August 26th
  • "Planet Earth is finite"
  • Oil crisis by 2010
  • Helping cities, towns and municipalities adapt to peak oil
• August 27th
  • Simmons-Kunstler interview
  • Oil crisis by 2010
  • Family Business
• August 28th
  • Growing public support for action on peak oil
  • Agriculture, the cutlass industry
• August 29th
  • ASPO 5. Skrebowski tells us there’s 1,500 days until the Peak, & closing thoughts on ASPO 5
  • ASPO 5. Dennis Meadows - Peak Oil and Limits to Growth
  • ASPO 5. Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change
  • Oil is close to running out, and chaos will follow, according to a US expert
  • Think Small, Think Local
  • Venezuela Is The New Cuba
  • The Limits to Gold and Silver Growth
• August 30th
  • Absence of an ill wind blows some good
  • An American view: Looking for a miracle
  • Commentary: Peak Oil and the Fall of the Soviet Union
  • End of an era
• August 31st
  • Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food?
  • Broad Based Organizing in Hamilton
  • Peak Oil Forecasters Win Converts on Wall Street to $200 Crude
  • The Peak Oil Crisis: Labor Day 2006
  • Sun Total
  • The Four Phases of Transition
  • Reality Bites
  • The Case For and Against "Peak Oil"