Peak Oil Passnotes: Normalising $70 Oil
(Resource Investor: Thu, 31 May) These days as prices bounce around just under $70 we are hearing politicians say that the “low price” of energy is helping dampen inflationary pressures. So is $65-$70 oil now low? What will be the next high?

Economic View: Self-interest will do more to cut carbon emissions than all the low-energy light bulbs in the world
(Independent: Sat, 02 Jun) The wind has shifted direction. The acknowledgement last week by President Bush that the world needed a new treaty to curb carbon emissions, and that the US would support this, is an important back-cloth to this week's G8 economic summit in Heiligendamm on Germany's Baltic coast.

What's behind the 'perfect storm' of rising gas prices?
(Navasota Examiner: Fri, 01 Jun) As gasoline prices surge past the $3-a-gallon mark, it's tempting to blame "Big Oil" for "price-gouging," the idea being this is all part of a conspiracy to control oil supply.

LETTER: Cost of rejecting clean power is too high
(The Standard-Times: Fri, 01 Jun) Cost of rejecting clean power is too high