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The Impact Of Rising Oil Prices On Sydney Suburbs
Today's SMH has a prominent article on the impact of rising petrol prices on Sydney suburbs featuring a study by Peter Rickwood of UTS (one of Garry Glazebrook's students (pdf) by the look of it). ASPO Australia's David Bell gets a mention too. There is a good graphic accompanying the article... Read more...
Published 6 hours ago

Shell's Shale Plans...? (or Why I Am an Oil Shale Skeptic)
It isn't hard to see why I am an oil shale skeptic. I outlined my reasons in two essays on oil shale: Oil Shale Development Imminent and Oil Shale = Cellulosic Ethanol. In those essays, I provided some history of oil shale, discussed Shell's unique process, as well as the reasons those "trillions... Read more...
Published 15 hours ago

DrumBeat: May 12, 2008
Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices REARDAN, Wash. - Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials. The pumps, throwbacks to a bygone... Read more...
Published 15 hours ago

What would $120 oil mean for the global economy?
The pdf is a short report written by Robert F. Wescott and published in April 2006 by Securing Americas Future Energy. It was written when oil was ~$60 a barrel and addressed a scenario where the price of oil surged to $120 due to coordinated terrorist attacks on global oil transport... Read more...
Published 1 day ago

The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing?
Quite a few people believe that if there is a decline in oil production, we can make up much of the difference by increasing our use of electricity--more nuclear, wind, solar voltaic, geothermal or even coal. The problem with this model is that it assumes that our electric grid will be working... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

DrumBeat: May 11, 2008
Don't let rising gas prices push you into panic selling Logically, the high cost of fuel doesn't justify drastic lifestyle changes, so don't be too quick to dump your SUV or your suburban home. The rising price of gasoline offers all of us an interesting logic test. What's the right thing to do... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Rising Energy Costs and the Future of Hospital Work
This is a talk given by Dan Bednarz to a group of nurses. The talk was given at the House of Delegates Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals (Pasnap) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2008. Dan is a healthcare consultant who tries to get people in... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

DrumBeat: May 10, 2008
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit DENVER " With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Peak Oil Media: Food v. (Bio)fuel, Fast Money saying "It's Supply, Stupid" and Cramer on Ending the Ethanol Mandate
Thanks to TOD reader Tim R. for pointing out this piece on the food v. fuel problem in the Seattle PI yesterday. One takeaway message (but is it a valid one?) is contained in this chart from a group at The University of Washington (click to enlarge): UNDER THE FOLD, you will find two youtube... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

The ASPO-Italy conference in Torino
The logo of the ASPOItaly-2 conference. It shows, superimposed to the classic ASPO peak, the mythical "post peak car", the battery powered, retrofitted Fiat 500 Conference report, many links and some pictures below the fold. [break] The second national conference of the Italian section of ASPO,... Read more...
Published 4 days ago