Health Care Options after Peak Oil
A new blog launched recently seeks to explore health care options after peak oil. "Because modern medicine runs on fossil fuel, just like the rest of our society, it is vulnerable to rising oil prices and supply disruptions", says blog founder Paul Roth, a medical professional in Australia.

The Peak Oil Point has Passed!
"I'd like to alert you to the writings of Geonomist GRMorton on why he believes that the Peak Oil has likely passed. "We have now passed the most significant time in human history. For the past million years, every day in the future humanity had more energy than they had yesterday. But from here on out, we will have less energy every day in the future."

Peak Oil Passnotes: Yo! Bombs!
The highlight of an otherwise grim week was the debate between two moronic men in Russia. George Bush and Tony Blair. Their concern over world events was obvious to see as Blair simpered, behind a burger-munching buffoon in charge of the largest army in the world. Blair gave him jumpers in a heatwave.

Today's BP Spill: Timed To Keep Oil Prices Up?
Last summer we pointed out various suspicious instances where incidents happened that would coincidently would boost the price of oil at critical junctures: a refinery shutdown here, a pipeline attack there, saber rattling overseas... always something.

Converging Ecological Crises
There is a very substantial volume of highly credible writing, for anyone that wants to see it, that warns us that humankind has only a few decades left in which to ‘get it right’. We face demographic challenges and global ecological disruptions on scales like nothing that people have seen before. This is no longer news; the information is out there. In spite of this, most people in North America are still ‘sleepwalking’ into the future.

We Can Build A Healthy Global Society
By what name will future generations know our time? Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet's resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?

A Thousand Barrels a Second
Today we take another look at the energy picture and how it will change over the next decade. Just as the world switched from whale oil to kerosene and from coal to diesel, we will see a change in how we find and use energy. That is inevitable. But the transition will not necessarily be easy or smooth. And there are some surprises along the way. The things we "know" and the assumptions we make about conservation of fuel and peak oil are probably wrong, and we need to get some key concepts down as we consider how the world will adjust to rising oil demand but at some point potentially falling production.

Manipulating The Price of Oil
Yesterday's closure of the Prudhoe Field on Alaska's North Slope was followed by a more than $2 jump in the per dollar price of oil to near its all time high. The increase prompts new outrage about the price, and questions about whether the price is manipulated or not, and if so how. Price is a function of supply and demand. That's an ABC we all drink in at our mother's breast. If it ain't there, you cain't have any. But supply and demand of what? Let's look first at the different ways price is determined, and the elements of supply and demand which enter into the picture.