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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT Iraq, the world's oil pump By Michael Klare Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/17/klare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/17/klare/index.html?source=rss After the disastrous Iraq war, the nation is now sadly set to serve as the supplier of the globe's energy needs Peak globalization By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/24/peak_globalization/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/24/peak_globalization/index.html?source=rss The upside to higher energy prices and catastrophic climate change: Trade de-liberalization Goodbye to cheap oil By Michael Klare Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/klare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/klare/index.html?source=rss The world's shrinking supply of oil may have disastrous effects on the economy and our security. Ask the pilot By Patrick Smith Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 decline and fall of the American empire of debt By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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. Who cares about peak oil when you have corn cobs? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/19/corn_cobs_to_the_rescue/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/19/corn_cobs_to_the_rescue/index.html?source=rss The nation's biggest ethanol firm says costs for corn-cob biofuel are coming down. But what happens to the soil? Peak oil? Don't worry -- Obama's on the job By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/04/obamas_year_of_energy_progress/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/04/obamas_year_of_energy_progress/index.html?source=rss Energy efficiency gains could slake the world's oil thirst. Thanks, in no small part, to the current administration Stoners and energy secretaries unite By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/20/stoners_and_energy_secretaries_unite/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/20/stoners_and_energy_secretaries_unite/index.html?source=rss The chastening economic consequences of sharp oil price spikes worry everyone, from Steven Chu to cartoon dopers The happy prospect of peak gasoline demand By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/02/peak_gasoline_demand/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/02/peak_gasoline_demand/index.html?source=rss Maybe we aren't doomed after all. Exxon's CEO suggests Americans are permanently losing their thirst for gas New oil discovery in the Gulf: Big, yes, but not cheap By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/02/bp_giant_oil_find/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/02/bp_giant_oil_find/index.html?source=rss BP announces a "giant" oil field, deeper below the water than Mt. Everest is high. But don't write off peak oil yet Falling gas prices: Where's the outrage? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/14/gas_prices_and_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/14/gas_prices_and_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss It's October in an election year and the price of gasoline is dropping like a rock. Where have all the conspiracy theorists gone? Jimmy Carter -- the peak oil president By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/08/06/jimmy_carter_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/08/06/jimmy_carter_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss His 1977 speech on the energy crisis is all too timely during a week of campaign obsession over tire gauges and offshore drilling. Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 The peak oil culture wars By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 North Dakota -- the next Saudi Arabia By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:00 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.