Peak Oil - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/peak_oil/?source=rss&aim=peak_oil en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/06/26/peak_oil_or_speculation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/06/26/peak_oil_or_speculation/index.html?source=rss It took awhile, but the market finally realized there's only so much of that black gold to go around. The Wall Street Peak Oil Journal Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/22/wall_street_journal_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/22/wall_street_journal_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss As crude prices set another record, the Journal publishes its gloomiest assessment yet of the oil market Ask the pilot By Patrick Smith Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/05/16/askthepilot277/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/05/16/askthepilot277/index.html?source=rss With oil prices soaring, airlines are struggling as never before. What's in store for fliers? The peak oil culture wars Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/12/peak_oil_culture_wars/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/12/peak_oil_culture_wars/index.html?source=rss Do conservatives oppose conservation because they don't like taking the bus? Or because they're terrified that those dirty hippies were right all along? Peak oil explains lack of UFOs Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/06/peak_oil_and_ufos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/06/peak_oil_and_ufos/index.html?source=rss Why is there no evidence of alien space-faring civilizations? Maybe it's because the cost of jet-fuel got too high Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/05/hillary_clinton_oil_manipulation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/05/hillary_clinton_oil_manipulation/index.html?source=rss But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation. The education of an oil reporter Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/29/jad_mouawad_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/29/jad_mouawad_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss A year ago, the New York Times' Jad Mouawad pooh-poohed the theory of peak oil. But $120 a barrel for crude forces everyone to rethink their positions The oil seesaw Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/22/oil_china_united_states/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/22/oil_china_united_states/index.html?source=rss Demand in the U.S. falls for the third straight quarter. But China's thirstier than ever, and it isn't alone. How not to prepare for peak oil Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/how_not_to_prepare_for_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/how_not_to_prepare_for_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss Russia, Nigeria, Mexico: Please open your arms to foreign oil companies so we can pump out your black gold even faster The decline and fall of the American empire of debt Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/14/kevin_phillips_bad_money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/14/kevin_phillips_bad_money/index.html?source=rss Kevin Phillips' newest excoriation of the state of the union, "Bad Money," is the right book for the right time. North Dakota -- the next Saudi Arabia Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/09/bakken_shale_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/09/bakken_shale_oil/index.html?source=rss Anti-peak oilers are rejoicing at the news of huge oil reserves yearning to be drilled. But it won't be cheap, and it won't be easy. OPEC can relax. Peak oil? Consider it solved By Joseph Romm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/28/peak_oil_solutions/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/28/peak_oil_solutions/index.html?source=rss It won't be easy but we can fix our oil and climate problems at the same time. The upside to peak fertilizer Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/07/peak_fertilizer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/07/peak_fertilizer/index.html?source=rss Synthetic production of nitrogen consumes oodles of energy. Organic never looked so good Has world oil production already peaked? Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/11/world_oil_production/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/11/world_oil_production/index.html?source=rss Tadeusz Patzek, biofuel critic supreme, says the numbers so far this year support a peak oil hypothesis How global warming will save us from peak oil Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/09/peak_oil_in_the_arctic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/09/peak_oil_in_the_arctic/index.html?source=rss A melting Arctic will make it easier to extract fossil fuels from the formerly frozen north. Don't cry for Saudi Arabia Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/27/saudi_arabia_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/27/saudi_arabia_oil/index.html?source=rss The Kingdom's petroleum minister claims that efforts to rein in the demand for oil are unfair to his country. But maybe the world has bigger problems? The oil price paradox Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/12/the_price_of_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/12/the_price_of_oil/index.html?source=rss As the price of crude surges again to new highs, even the CEO of Exxon says he can't figure out what's going on Blaming labor for peak oil problems Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/08/15/oil_sands_labor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/08/15/oil_sands_labor/index.html?source=rss Costs are booming in the Wild West oil sands territory of Alberta. Fie on those workers spoiling the party for everyone else The day the drilling stopped Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/25/peak_dentistry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/25/peak_dentistry/index.html?source=rss Yet another peak oil nightmare: The end of dentistry as we know it is nigh. If it smells like peak oil, it probably is Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/09/iea_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/09/iea_report/index.html?source=rss A bleak new report from the International Energy Agency offers plenty of fodder for those who believe the era of cheap oil is over, forever. The missing link in Mexico's declining oil production Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/04/05/mexico_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/04/05/mexico_oil/index.html?source=rss The words the Wall Street Journal dare not speak: "Peak oil." The not-so-final word on peak oil Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/29/gao_peak/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/29/gao_peak/index.html?source=rss The Government Accountability Office takes a hard look at the global energy crisis. Could be, we have a problem. Peak oil -- the German techno-thriller Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/27/eschbach/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/27/eschbach/index.html?source=rss Who needs science fiction for a fantastic plot when a global energy crisis looms? Bill McKibben says we're stuffed By Ira Boudway Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/03/23/mckibben/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/03/23/mckibben/index.html?source=rss We've eaten, developed and drilled to near oblivion, says the environmental writer. It's time to realize that having more stuff is not the road to paradise. Oh, really? "Switchgrass is cool, dude" Andrew Leonard Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/01/switchgrass_is_cool/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/01/switchgrass_is_cool/index.html?source=rss A House hearing on energy development shockingly features politicians asking experts substantive questions about ethanol and peak oil.