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Peak Oil

Guardian Asserts Conspiracy to Hide the Peak

A. Siegel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Truthiness, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Analysis, Oil, International Energy Administration, Disinformation, Green News
A. Siegel

A recent Guardian article raises the question: has there been a conspiracy to inflate IEA numbers and thus distort the global conversation about our energy challenges?

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World 2.0

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, America 2.0, World 2.0, Bill of Rights, Global Warming, 11th Amendment, Barack Obama, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The fact of the matter is that millions did not perish this summer from excessive heat and there is no discernible sea level rise. The flaw that World 2.0 needs to overcome? Society can presently only react, when it's too late.

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The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil

Michael T. Klare | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Renewable Resources, Energy Bill, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Green News
Michael T. Klare

Barring a staggering surprise, we will remain for years to come in a no-man's-land between the Petroleum Age and an age that will see the great flowering of renewable energy.

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Can You Survive Life After Cheap Oil? It May Be Time to Find Out

Tara Lohan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Transition-Towns, Energy, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Warming, James Howard Kunstler, Green News
Tara Lohan

Andre Angelantoni is among the crowd of geologists, oil-industry experts and numbers crunchers that believes we are at or near peak, and the way down will be a painful and bumpy ride.

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Oil and a Never-Ending Recession

Diane Francis | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Saudis, Crude Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Supply and Demand, Oil, Environment, Oil Prices, Oil Demand, Gasoline Usage, Green Energy, China, Opec, Recession, Oil Consumption, Business News
Diane Francis

Higher oil prices mean recessions, recessions mean less consumption, then lower oil prices, which leads to less exploration and supply, which leads to higher oil prices and recession again.

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The Future of Sustainable Aviation

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, U.S. Sentor Daniel Inouye, Hawaii, Global Warming, National Hydrogen Clipper, President Barack Obama, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

If jet fuel becomes so expensive that tourists stop visiting Hawaii, it will become the first state to enter into a prolonged depression.

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The New York Times on Peak Oil - Don't Worry, Be Happy

Gabriel Rotello | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fatih Birol, Peak Oil, Global Warming, The New York Times, Climate Change, Michael Lynch, Green News
Gabriel Rotello

If the Peak Oil proponents are correct, it amounts to one of the biggest stories of our time, right up there with global warming

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Michael Lynch, Wrong on Oil Prices for Over a Decade, is Wrong About Peak Oil

Joseph Romm | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peak Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Peak Oil Theory, Crude Oil Prices, Michael Lynch, Politics News
Joseph Romm

The future is just like the past, until, of course, it isn't. We aren't making more oil; we are, however, consuming more and more.

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Peak Oil Agonistes: The New York Times Finally Comes Around to Where HuffPost Never Feared to Tread

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, The Huffington Post, President Obama, The New York Times, Oil, Fatih Birol, Michael Lynch, Abiotic-Oil, International Energy Agency, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

At last, one of the great misnomers of public disinformation bordering closer to brainwashing has been brought to heel.

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Is This "The Age of Stupid"?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Consumerism, Age of Stupid, Peak Oil, War, Oil, Climate Change, Ecopsychology, Film, Ecotherapy, Human Stupidity, Entertainment News
Linda Buzzell

Why all the hullabaloo? Many believe The Age of Stupid could be the next, far hipper "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Blackout: Dwindling Coal Reserves and the Siren Song of "Clean Coal"

David Roberts | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Peak Coal, Clean Coal, Energy Return on Investment, Peak Oil, Eroi, Hubbert Curve, Energy Crisis, Richard Heinberg, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

If we don't begin massive investment in renewable power sources, civilization could be at risk before the end of the century. Such is the stark conclusion of Blackout, one of the scariest books I've ever read.

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The End of the Age of Oil: Will It Be a Soft or Hard Landing?

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Suburbs, Christopher Steiner, Crude Oil Prices, $20 Per Gallon, Sustainable Food, Peak Oil, Nuclear Power, Electric Cars, High Speed Rail, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, Airlines, Wal-Mart, Farming, Mass Transit, Alternative Energy, Green Living, Green Energy, Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Green Cars, Oil Prices, Better Place, James Howard Kunstler, Business News
Anis Shivani

Reading Steiner's $20 Per Gallon makes us realize how contingent our way of life is, and how uncertain its future prospects are.

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Are We Getting Too Old?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Russia, Aarp, China, Peak Oil, Health, Global Warming, Retirement, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Eternal Life, Business News
Patrick Takahashi

Another huge economic crisis is looming because, for developed countries, in the 80's, 5 workers supported a retired person. This has dropped to 4:1 and will crash to 2.2:1 in 2050.

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A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Juliet Jeske, Swine Flu Pandemic, Al Franken, Peak Oil, 12 Monkeys, Global Warming, Minnesota, Will Menaker, Avian Flu, RJ Eskow, Jesse Ventura, World Health Organization, The Venus Syndrome, Jeff Horwich, World Wide Web, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, World News
Patrick Takahashi

Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.

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My Year With The Huffington Post

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Too High Cost of National Security, Renewable Electricity Cheaper Than Nuclear Energy or Coal Powerplants, The Venus Syndrome, Peak Oil, National Defense Cost, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Optimal Biofuel, Ethanol Versus Methanol, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Blue Revolution, Plug-in Electric Car, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

As miserable as the world has been over the past year, we have no Cold War, we will soon exit Iraq, the economy is rising, there is change in D.C. and the sun will continue to shine.

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President Obama's Pledge to End "The Tyranny Of Oil"; "Peak Oil" Mutating to "Peak Consumption"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Norway's National Oil Trust, Gasoline Consumption, Lee Raymond, World Oil Demand, Biofuels, Exxonmobil, Norway, Wall Street Journal, National Oil Trust, Peak Oil, Peak Consumption, Oil, Petroleum Based Fuels, Nuclear Power, Obama Oil, Barack Obama, Ethanol, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.

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We're Running Our World Like a Ponzi Scheme!

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Sustainability, Bernard Madoff, Ecology, Financial Meltdown, Crash, Apocalypse, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Green News
Matthew Stein

If our world is to maintain its current rate of oil consumption, then we would need to find and develop a Saudi Arabia's worth of oil every year for the next year or two from now to eternity.

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The Oil Patch Vaudeville Act

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy Information Agency, James Simmons, Oil Industry Public Relations, Norway, American Petroleum Institute, Opec, Wall Street Journal, Statoil, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Price of Oil, Goldman Sachs, Norway Oil Trust, Peak Oil, Jad Mouawad, Gazprom, Oil, T.Boone Pickens, New York Times, Petoro, Crude Oil Prices, Oil Prices, Matt Simmons, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The current oil price of $52 per barrel reflects an increase of 400% from one decade ago. What else in your day to day experience has gone up that steeply in the past 10 years? Think about it.

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The Perfect Crash Course in The Economy

Charles Shaw | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Population, Internet, Peak Oil, Economy, Economic Crisis, Banking Crisis, Federal Reserve, Climate Change, Media, Business News
Charles Shaw

Chris Martenson created a three-hour long internet video that is a literal "crash course" in the economic, environmental, and societal "crashes" that are unfolding all around us.

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Evolution, Global Warming, Doomsday and the Afterlife

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Economic Collapse, Creationism, Peak Oil, Doomsday, Evolution, God, Global Warming, Afterlife, Environment, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The majority of Americans believe in both creationism and an afterlife, the potential of some sort of religious doom, and think they are not causing global warming,

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The 10% Solution

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, Global Warming, Cold War, Berlin Wall, The 10% Solution, Obama Stimulus Plan, Bush Rescue Package, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

If each country can reduce defense spending by 10% each year, with the resultant savings being applied to renewable energy and climate change, that would be a nice start.

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Blue Revolution

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, Otec, Patri Friedman, Ocean Sunrise Program, Seasteading Institute, Global Warming, Blue Revolution, Sea, Seatopia, Ocean, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

As land-based societies attempt to cope with economic, environmental and assorted other problems, the notion of a totally new initiative to do it better next time seems enticing at sea.

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Trillions and Quadrillions

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Economy, Peak Oil, Warren Buffett, Bernard Madoff, Global Warming, Apollo Project, Business News
Patrick Takahashi

The world needs to spend $45 trillion to halve planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2050.It's hard to focus on global warming when oil is selling for $40 a barrel and it is freezing outside.

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The Sun will Continue to Shine...

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, Obama Administration, Manhattan Project, Global Warming, Apollo Project, President Obama, Doomsday, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Are we destined to soon be crushed by the dual hammer of Peak Oil and Global Warming, crippling our civilization forever?

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Simple Solutions for 2009

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza Strip War, Peace on Earth, Saving Planet Earth and Humanity, Buy American, Saving the National Economy, Obama's Cabinet, Peak Oil, Obama Transition, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Auto Bailout, The Biomethanol Economy, Isreael-Hamas, Chevy Volt, G8 Naitons Summit, Automakers Bailout, Biofuels, Gas Tax, Obama Administration, Green Energy, Recession, PO/GW, Obama Environment, Gaza Strip, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Biomethanol, G8 Nations, Detroit Bailout, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

By now you have no doubt read a dozen reviews of 2008 and projections for 2009, all pure guesses for the latter, unless someone was carefully predicti...

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