Peak Oil News

If the world is to reduce CO2 emissions then the world's reliance on fossil fuels will have to reduce.

The next Tequila Crisis will be a peak oil crisis. Mexico's government is dependant on revenues from declining oil fields.

Canadian taxpayers subsidize oil and gas interests by $1.4-billion a year. Photograph by: Canwest News Service, Canwest News Service Many National Post readers are committed to the free-market system.

We've been seeing increased coverage of peak oil in newspapers, magazines, and online in the past few years.

Environmental action group Transition Carrboro-Chapel Hill will put in an appearance at Saturday's Chapel Hill-Carrboro Holiday Parade.

Note: This post is based on a portion of my presentations at the recent Association for the Study of Peak Oil conference in Denver .

After a task force's 18 months of work and more than 100 meetings, City Council members heard how limited energy resources globally could have an impact locally.

Indeed, during the first debate MSPs held on transport issues, climate change was mentioned only once, but it was still not seen as a reason to refrain from big increases in road-building. Peak oil, the fact of finite supplies, was still dismissed as a fringe idea by the oil companies, which privately knew better, and energy debates in Scotland ...

Peak oil theory predicts that production will reach a maximum point and then fall fairly sharply as demand outpaces possible supply.

Bryony Worthington explains what the public announcements of China and US mean : China's impressive-sounding target to reduce its carbon intensity refers to cutting the CO2 that is emitted per yuan of economic activity.

You don't have to be long Renewable Energy stocks to have a green portfolio. Shorting, selling calls, or buying puts on companies and industries which are heavily dependent on dirty and finite fossil fuels not only makes a portfolio greener, it can protect against the effects of a permanent global decline caused by peak oil.

The events currently tearing the Liberal Party apart are indications of the new politics emerging out of the global energy crisis.

Some in the United States shiver when they hear the words 'global citizen'--many Americans unfortunately feel they have communistic connotations.

The Tragedy of 21 Darts [PDF] This is a long article on the subject of oil & gas reserves and due diligence.

Oil. It's a nonrenewable resource, but only in the last decade or so has the "non" part really begun to hit home.

In the last two years, US oil consumption has fallen some 9%, down nearly 2 million barrels per day from 20.7 mbpd in mid 2007, to about 18.8 mbpd in October 2009.

As the keynote speaker at the Singapore Energy Lecture, Dr. Daniel Yergin was toeing his usual line of optimism on the subject of oil and energy.

With last year's high gas prices fading in our memories , and with the Copenhagen climate talks grabbing the headlines, the peak oil meme seemed, until recently, to have been taking a bit of a breather.

David Gardner called it. He's up 1,334%! See what David's recommending that you buy NEXT.

Saudi Arabia's oil production company is Saudi Aramco. Its former Vice President of oil exploration and production, Sadad al Husseini, recently made the following comment on oil prices at the 30th Oil & Money Conference, held in London on October 20-21: ... as you go up to say $90 a barrel, you're consuming 4.5% of the global economy [for oil].