Oil supply report to be released (drive.com.au: Mon, 05 Feb) A Senate report into Australia's future oil supply will be released on Tuesday. It comes as peak oil theory experts and environmentalists prepare to link growing concern about global warming to the over use of oil.
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Peak Oil Passnotes: The Iraqification of Iran (Resource Investor: Fri, 02 Feb) Oil production is strong, new capacity is coming onstream. The market is looking for a new range, so do not expect $75 any time soon. Bombing runs notwithstanding.
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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.
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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.
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Kathleen Reardon: Where Among Us Is A Truly Courageous Leader? (HuffingtonPost: Mon, 29 Jan) There are those who believe that courage is inborn. Aristotle was not one of them. And it wouldn't hurt to revisit his thoughts on courage before this country augments, escalates or perpetuates the war in Iraq. Aristotle argued (Ethics) that none of the virtues is engendered in us by nature, "since nothing that is what it is by nature can be made to behave differently by habituation. For ...
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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 ...
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