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The geopolitics of 'energy independence' More than meets the eye	Jon Rynn	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If you think that the current governmental and corporate interest in ethanol has something to do with global warming, think again. It is dawning on the U.S. government that (1) most of the remaining supplies of oil are in unfriendly hands, and (2) that there isn't enough oil remaining to feed a constantly growing global demand. With oil production plateauing, governments can turn to three main strategies to maintain fuel supplies: (1) consume what's left of the planet by ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, international politics, oil (all these topics)

Easing off the gas? Well, sorta	Clark Williams-Derry	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
One of the most striking findings from this year's Cascadia Scorecard from Sightline Institute (just released Tuesday, by the way) is that Northwesterners -- or, more properly, the residents of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia -- are using less gasoline. In fact, per person gas consumption on the Northwest's roads and highways has fallen by nearly a tenth since the late 1990s. To put the recent declines in context: cutting gas consumption by n ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, energy, oil (all these topics)

Don't worry about biofuels Say the developed countries to OPEC	David Roberts	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Biofuels will provide only a small proportion of the world's demand for fuel in the next decade, the developed countries' energy watchdog has said in an attempt to reassure OPEC that the need for oil will continue to grow.Well I feel reassured.
Topics: biofuels, energy, oil (all these topics)

Where to gas up around the globe (Or take the bus)	Sarah van Schagen	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
From Wired: How much are you paying for gas? Depends on where in the world you're parked. In oil-producing nations like Venezuela and Iran, you can fill up for as little as 17 cents a gallon. But in tax-happy Germany and South Korea, you'll pay more than six bucks. So even when prices hit near-record levels in the US, American drivers get off cheap compared with European motorists. This summer's bargain road trip: a tour of the Zagros Mountains, from Tehran to ...
Topics: cars, energy, oil (all these topics)

Ecuador to world: Help us, and we won't drill in the rainforest Ultimatum to the rest of the world	Kit Stolz	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
In response to intense pressure from indigenous and environmental organizations opposed to drilling for oil in an Amazon rainforest, this May Ecuador asked the world for financial help, according to the Environmental News Service. The oil fields under Yasuni National Park are estimated to contain 900 million to 1 billion barrels of oil, about one-quarter of Ecuador's total reserves. In about a year, international oil companies will be allowed to bid for the right to dr ...
Topics: biodiversity, Ecuador, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

OPEC threatens cut in investment because of biofuels Agrifuels creating insecurity of demand for their oil	Ron Steenblik	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
According to an article by Javier Blas and Ed Crooks in the Financial Times (London), the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdalla El-Badri, warned Western countries yesterday that their efforts to develop biofuels as an alternative energy source risked driving the price of oil 'through the roof'. Oh, the irony of it all.One of the main arguments used by proponents of the U.S. Government's heavily subsidized drive to d ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, international politics, oil (all these topics)

What if Hurricane Katrina had hit the Persian Gulf coast? Stormy weather ahead	Jon Rynn	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well, we might find out, according to an exclusive from The Oil Drum and Chuck Watson of KAC/UCF, also using a weather blog, where Margie Kieper writes: An unusual event is happening over the next 48 hours, as the first tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds, and major hurricane-force winds at that, is approaching the Gulf of Oman, to strike the eastern coast of Oman, curve northward, and make landfall on the coast of Iran. In the tropical cyclone best tracks and th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

On the unity between peak oil and climate destabilization A reality TV show that will knock your socks off	JMG	03 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Crude: a great overview of how, when, where, and why oil is obtained, and a fascinating look at what happens when you burn a bunch of it real fast. Think The End of Suburbia meets An Inconvenient Truth.
Topics: oil, energy, movies (all these topics)

O Canada! Imagine a politician leveling with citizens about something	JMG	30 May 2007	Gristmill
This is a great column from a former Winnipeg mayor: 'Higher oil prices or carbon tax: Take your pick.' Imagine if all politicians were as frank. Why, we might even have the kind of discourse Al Gore mourns losing in The Assault on Reason.
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil (all these topics)

Global warming, peak oil, and coal-to-liquids Coal companies try a fast one	Jon Rynn	29 May 2007	Gristmill
There is no better reminder of the perils of the end of the cheap gasoline era than the article in today's New York Times, ''Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process,' i.e., coal-to-liquids. This is the process that converts coal to diesel fuel, and while doing so, according to the NYT, emits 119 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional diesel. (David discussed the article this morning.) Of course, the coal companies will allegedly 'try' to sequester the ...
Topics: climate, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Are Republican presidential candidates taking global warming seriously? Brownback's plan is not promising	David Roberts	23 May 2007	Gristmill
He hasn't released a detailed plan yet, but Republican presidential contender Sam Brownback gave a speech yesterday to the Set America Free coalition that outlined his thoughts on energy policy. (There's more info in this Greenwire story, but it's subscription only.) Republican candidates haven't talked about climate and energy as much as their Dem counterparts, but Brownback's comments are more or less representative. Consider this a critique, then, of mainstream Re ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, elections, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Another attempt to push nukes Using high gas prices to push for a rebirth	Jon Rynn	23 May 2007	Gristmill
In today's New York Times, President Gerald Ford's energy adviser, in an article entitled 'How to Win the Energy War,' tries to use higher gas prices and oil dependence as an excuse to build more nuclear reactors: The other major way to wean us from oil is to resume construction of nuclear power plants. Nuclear energy is the cleanest and best option for America's electric power supply, yet it has been stalled by decades of unproductive debate. Our current commercial nucle ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Peak oil and climate change New Hansen paper	John McGrath	22 May 2007	Gristmill
Today the Oil Drum linked to a James Hansen released paper analyzing the impact of peak oil, peak gas, and peak coal on the likely emissions of carbon. Hansen notes that most of our emissions scenarios have thus far failed to account for whether the carbon will even be there to burn. Plenty of graphy goodness, but what I took away was this: There's just enough oil and gas left in the ground to take us up to, or maybe a bit over, the 450 parts per million of CO2 that ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, natural gas, oil (all these topics)

Yowza Drilling for oil is good for climate change -- see how!	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explains why drilling in the Arctic Refuge will help us fight climate change: Won't drilling for more oil make global warming worse? What some might perceive as the contradiction in further drilling, when we take into account the mean estimate of what we take from ANWR, it will be the equivalent of what we have seen from Prudhoe Bay, which has produced 20 percent of this country's oil [production]. If we could tap into a source that c ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, jackassery, oil, US Senate (all these topics)

I'm not sure if a rock concert is the answer ...	David Roberts	20 May 2007	Gristmill
... but I'm pretty sure 'burning all the oil' isn't.
Topics: energy, green living, music, oil (all these topics)

Gas price roundup Do gas prices affect behavior or not?	Clark Williams-Derry	18 May 2007	Gristmill
Despite record-setting gas prices, U.S. drivers haven't changed their gas-guzzling habits, says AP. Not only are we consuming as much as we always have, new vehicle sales seem to be tilting even more in favor of trucks than cars. But wait, USA Today disagrees. They say that drivers are, in fact, starting to cut back on how much they drive -- a clear sign that higher gas prices are starting to bite. Who's right? Who cares! Either way, the consumer respons ...
Topics: cars, energy, gas prices, green living, oil, placemaking, public transportation, Vancouver (all these topics)

Exxon still up to no good Funding deniers, still, in 2007?	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
A little while back Exxon was trying to backpedal on its global warming shenanigans, claiming it had been misunderstood and that it wasn't funding those nasty denialist groups any more. In what is sure to come as a huge shock to ... nobody, that turned out to be bullsht. According to a new report from Greenpeace, Exxon is still actively funding 14 groups for "climate change work," and you can bet that work isn't devoted to fine-tuning a cap-and-trade syste ...*
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, energy, lying liars, oil (all these topics)

Profiles in dishonesty Patrick Moore proves to be -- gasp -- a nuclear shill	John McGrath	17 May 2007	Gristmill
We anti-nuclear folks are frequently accused of closed-mindedness. Like, you know, Chernobyl is so 1980s. Get with the here and now, man.So I was interested to see how nuclear shill extraordinaire Patrick Moore would react to the news that the Canadian oil industry is increasingly interested in geothermal power as an alternative to nuclear in the heat-starved tar sands developments. The heat produced by obviously-feasible technology would be a perfect fit, and if those ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

Dig deeper	David Roberts	16 May 2007	Gristmill
CNBC dreams of abiotic oil: (via Hugg)
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Peak-a-who? Some guy on CNBC	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
There's plenty of oil. We're swimming in it! What I don't get is, why does he think production-capacity limitations and geological limitations are mutually exclusive? (via Hugg)
Topics: energy, jackassery, oil (all these topics)

The dots	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
An energy consultancy firm says that state ownership and resource nationalism are the big threats to global oil supply. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin this week obliquely compared U.S. foreign policy to that of the Third Reich.
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Peak coal, peak bees Trends on an ever-shrinking planet	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at Coop Power's excellent annual renewable energy summit in western Massachusetts recently. Richard Heinberg was there as a presenter. He discussed his well-regarded peak oil projections, and he then put that curve next to his peak uranium and peak coal projections. That visual drew gasps from the crowd -- especially the peak coal bit. Sure we've got lots of coal, but its quality ain't what it used to be, and won't go as far. Check his data. This got me thinki ...
Topics: biodiversity, coal, energy, oil, water conflicts (all these topics)

BP CEO resigns All abruptly	David Roberts	02 May 2007	Gristmill
John Browne, who's been head of oil giant BP for 41 years, abruptly resigned yesterday. Browne grew the lackluster company into the second largest oil company in the world; he also was among the first oil executives to proactively acknowledge the danger of climate change and encourage action. The resignation came after Browne lied to a British court. A UK tabloid was about to publish an account of a long-running homosexual relationship; he sued to stop it; in the cou ...
Topics: business, oil (all these topics)

Or They Could Stop Waging War Report says U.S. military needs to wean itself from oil		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Or They Could Stop Waging War Report says U.S. military needs to wean itself from oil A report commissioned by the Pentagon says the U.S. military needs to break its oil addiction. The country used an average of 16 gallons of fuel per soldier per day in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006, compared to four per soldier per day in the Persian Gulf War and one per soldier per day during World War II. The increase is attributed to cut ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, US Military (all these topics)

But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company		24 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company A story unfolding at press time gives a taste of that global energy-security issue everyone's worried about: according to news reports, gunmen attacked an oil field in eastern Ethiopia run by a Chinese company, killing 65 local workers and nine Chinese workers, and taking seven Chinese hostages. Xu Shuang, acting manager o ...
Topics: China, energy, Ethiopia, news, oil (all these topics)

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