Peak Oil in the News

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Peak Oil News Friday February 2nd 2007

Saudi CEO sees more oil in world energy future
(The Daily Free Press: Thu, 01 Feb) Abdallah Jum'ah, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, one of the United States' main oil suppliers, assured an audience of more than 300 at the Harvard University Science Center that his company will help achieve a sustainable energy future by increasing oil production.

Main Menu
(Falls Church News-Press: Thu, 01 Feb) It is time for some good news. In recent weeks there has been a spate of announcements about plans to develop electric cars and much better batteries to power them.

The Shock of the Old, by David Edgerton
(Independent: Mon, 29 Jan) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Western world continues to believe the future will be bright, shiny and technologically advanced. In both public and scholarly accounts of technological development and its consequences, we remain in thrall to the science-fiction visionaries of early 20th-century futurism. Novelty, innovation and invention will benignly shape our world, though it does ...

LA Horsepower
(Hartford Advocate: Sun, 28 Jan) I don't make it to all of the auto shows, so I'm experiencing the just-concluded Greater Los Angeles Auto Show vicariously.

My Turn: Bush's reign of terror
(The Burlington Free Press: Sun, 28 Jan) Anyone questioning the details of this incredible tale is said to be a "conspiracy theorist" and is not the be taken seriously. And what about the anthrax scare which followed on the heels of 9/11 and no longer even shows up on the national radar screen?

Amid debate, Professor Barazangi asserts that world oil production could delay its peak 'way ahead into the future'
(Cornell News Service: Wed, 24 Jan) Peak oil production in the Middle East's Arabian/Persian Gulf region could be delayed if oil companies would invest more heavily in drilling and extraction technologies and push to explore new sites.

Level the playing field
(The Aspen Times: Wed, 31 Jan) Dear Editor: Nathan Morse's letter (letters to the editor, Jan. 27) reveals a common misconception about climate change, and about environmentalism in general.

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