Are we destined to soon be crushed by the dual hammer of Peak Oil and Global Warming, crippling our civilization forever?
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
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...
Clusterstock | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
The sudden collapse of oil prices has made people really quiet about peak oil and superspikes and various theories that were popular during the run-up...
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
After the Energy Crises of 1974 and 1979, there was a flurry of activity, followed by a general abandonment of anything sustainable. Hopefully, we can be smarter this time.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green
Bloomberg sees January delivering crude oil below $20/barrel and oil traders are today purchasing gasoline for $0.97/gallon. What does all this mean?
Scott Thill | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
For years, we have been exporting pollution and excess to the rest of the world, in the form of gas hogs that don't work, suck up cash and destroy the environment.
Paige Donner | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green
Fuel is definitely a must-see. It's a conversation starter in this all-important crash course our nation must take on issues of alternative fuels and our planet's future.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
Do you get a sense that we are beginning to lose control?
Andrew Winston | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
So supply is a problem, but it's not actually the biggest one. The real story is demand. The growth of India and China is impossible to grasp and will drive prices of everything up and up.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
I never cease to be amazed by the vehemence of opinions expressed on energy by people who are spectacularly underinformed. Let's first begin with a top ten list of clear-cut facts.
Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
On the banks of the River Thames, just on the edge of Greater London is a lesson the energy industry could well do to heed.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.14.2008 | Green
Peak oil is the point at which worldwide oil production is reached. Once the oil supply peaks, petroleum extraction will decline, prices will increase...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business
Clearly something is afoot in the attempt to quash any and all discussion of the "Abiotic Oil Theory."
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green
One would think that members countries from the OEPC in the Persian Gulf who are sitting on a quarter of the world's oil reserves would like to stall the development of clean technologies and thereby the creation of alternatives to oil, right? Nope.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.12.2008 | Business
Were we to learn that the supply of oil is limitless, the emperor's clothes would evaporate and the price of oil would collapse.
The Oil Drum | Ugo Bardi | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green
How best to explain the concept of Peak Oil? How about this: There is a finite amount of oil in the ground and at a certain point, we'll increase prod...
Gabriel Rotello | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Many peak oil folks warn that there is no energy source or combination of sources on the horizon that can fully compensate for the decline of oil over the next few decades.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
"I've never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today." General Richard Cody, Army Vice Chief of Staff TIME, April 14, 2008 Let me see ...
Bob Ostertag | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
Gas went up to $4 a gallon and Americans cut out nearly 10 billion miles of driving in one month. This is real, measurable, verified data that shows that we can solve the climate crisis.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
Laid end to end, a billion one dollar bills would circle the globe at the equator four times. How far does a sum of one billion dollars go these days?
Matthew Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green
At the current price, a whopping $1.5 billion gets sent out of our country each and every day to keep America "well oiled."
Debbie Cook | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
If we fail to adapt intelligently to the post-CO2 era, the next few decades will see even higher energy costs -- leaving us with a ruined environment and a shattered economy, unable to face a future without fossil fuels.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 07.27.2008 | Green
Lost amongst all the "solutions" to the energy crisis lies the fact that the energy crisis is simply one component of a much broader ecological crisis.
Debbie Cook | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green
More people are now moving past the denial stage and are beginning to consider intelligent responses to the env=ergy problems we will face in the coming decades.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green
This is the fifth and final article of my HuffPo series on finding an optimal solution for Peak Oil and Global Warming.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green