Peak Oil in the News

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Peak Oil News Sunday December 31st 2006

David Roberts: The top ten green stories of 2006
(HuffingtonPost: Sat, 30 Dec) grist.org 10. A Stern reminder In October, venerable economist and senior U.K. government adviser Sir Nicholas Stern released a major report on global warming. Its claims were explosive. On the grim side, global warming stands to shave up to 20 percent off the world's annual GDP by the end of the century. On the bright side, it will only cost 1 percent of the world's annual GDP to ...

Should we still be in Iraq?
(Ridgecrest Daily Independent: Sat, 30 Dec) With everything that's been going on in our country, should we still be trying to save Iraq or should we be concentrating on saving our selves?

Energizing America
(Sierra Club: Fri, 29 Dec) {Editor's Note} In the following pages, Sierra explores what our nation can do to meet the challenge of global warming. "Everything hinges on our ability to somehow gracefully make the jump from fossil fuel to ... something else," says author Bill McKibben in our opening story. But to what?

Briefly in Tompkins
(The Ithaca Journal: Fri, 29 Dec) Carol L. Seligmann, who served on the Ithaca Youth Bureau Advisory Board, Community Police Board and the Board of the Fire Commissioners, died Wednesday at her Ithaca home. She was 61.

Options Trader: Tuesday Wrapup
(SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Thu, 28 Dec) Phil Davis submits: What a way to end the year! Dow 12,510! If only this weren't a low volume week I'd be really psyched right now, but we'll certainly take what we can get and we got a lot today...

Report claims high oil prices threaten UK food security FWi
(Farmers Weekly Interactive: Thu, 28 Dec) Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes and could cause food shortages in the UK, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.

Peak Oil Passnotes: 2006 - A Year of Confusion
(Resource Investor: Fri, 29 Dec) RI predicted an oil price of $61 on Christmas Day back when crude was lapping around the $75 mark. Amazingly ... or should that be, of course, we were right. It was one of the few predictions in 2006 that actually came true.

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