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Peak Oil News Monday September 4th 2006

Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong
"I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak, posted recently on the ever indispensible Energy Bulletin, perhaps it is time to deconstruct the whole survivalist argument, which is still a strong theme in the peak oil movement. Imagine you and a number of other people are in a house and the house catches fire. Do you look around the house for other people and help those out that you can, or do you bolt out of the house at the first sniff of smoke?"

Is there an alternative route to energy independence?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could surf our way to energy independence? Complete freedom from fossil fuels is a pipe dream - for the next few decades, anyway. But maybe we can get to a place of significantly less dependence on them. As demand relentlessly outstrips supply in the coming years, we’ll have to cut back no matter what. It will merely be a question of how rough the ride turns out to be.

An American View: Looking For A Miracle
"Peak oil, the point at which we've extracted exactly half of all the petroleum Mother Earth holds, may already be here. If you think gasoline prices are bad now, you haven't seen anything yet. But as our society rages, as Dylan Thomas wrote, against the dying of the light, more innocent blood will carpet the Middle East because, after all, that's what we're there for ­ to delay the day of reckoning."

The Demise of a Techno-fix Psyche
"My early approach was data driven as I am familiar with an engineer's need for numbers. Later discussions evolved through possible social, political and ecological events to come. We discussed the End of Suburbia DVD and, after some lobbying, I convinced her to read Powerdown by Richard Heinberg. Last summer I met her at the Solfest gathering in Hopland, California where Heinberg and Michael Ruppert were speaking. She was quite attentive but I could tell she wasn't buying it."

When our oil dries up
Oil is close to running out, and chaos will follow, according to a US expert. Richard Heinberg is an unlikely latter-day Jeremiah. The contrast between this quietly spoken Californian college professor and accomplished classical violinist and his explosive message couldn't be more marked. Heinberg, who is embarking on an Australia-wide speaking tour, is a leading proponent of the "peak oil" theory.
   Peak oil is shorthand for the premise that the amount of oil left for us to use has "peaked" (or is just about to peak). Once worldwide production begins to fall and with no corresponding decrease in demand, oil prices will skyrocket, leading to widespread chaos.

Green Consumer choices in the current economy
We needn’t and shouldn’t feel helpless in front of the daunting problems of peak oil, global warming, and climate destruction. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can change the way we live. We need to be catalysts for this change. The general public doesn’t know what we know, but we can educate them. We are capable of progress, but only if we commit ourselves without hesitance to progression. The quest for a better life begins today.

World War III more likely from oil grabs than radical Islam
Recently, with midterm elections just two months off and the war in Iraq more unpopular than ever, President Bush has begun to reframe the war on terror as a "war on Islamic fascism." But clever rebranding aside, and with all respect due to our brave troops, by now everybody knows that invading Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with oil.
   Of course, ongoing civil unrest has kept America from getting much oil out of Iraq even after Bush announced "Mission Accomplished" in 2003. But whatever Iraq's problems, its location provides a base for U.S. operations near the largest remaining oil reserves on earth at a time when instability in the Middle East has reached an all-time high.