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What a difference a month makes. Just four weeks ago Hezbollah and the Israelis were engaged in the heaviest fighting the world has seen sin...

On a sweltering Tuesday in mid-July, in the fields outside Pisa, Italy, Willem Kadijk scribbles notes as a ragtag troupe of doomsayers predi...

Global demand for oil will one day overtake our ability to produce it cheaply, and prices will skyrocket as half the world's easily extr...

GLOBAL warming's failure so far to produce a repeat of last year's serial hurricane assault and battery of the oil-rich Gulf of Mexi...

After over 70 years in power, the mighty Soviet Empire unexpectedly vanished overnight and almost the entire communist tradition there disso...

Richard Heinberg is an unlikely latter-day Jeremiah. The contrast between this quietly spoken Californian college professor and accomplished...

Chris is the editor or Petroleum Review and is a well known speaker on peak oil. He also uses very detailed Powerpoint presentations which h...

We are being mentally prepared for what is about to come: a devastating war with Iran. This war has been planned a long time ago and has bee...

The Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) declared, last Friday, that within the next twelve months, cars used in Nigeria would start running on Compre...

U.S. installations projected to grow by 50% by the end of next year Rising prices for oil and natural gas fuel demand for wind power. A team...

At Black Mountain, North Carolina, there is a developing ecovillage known as Earthaven that exemplifies Catherine Austin Fitts’ Solari econo...

Dennis Meadows. Peak Oil and Limits to Growth. Wednesday 19th July 2006. The Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study...

IN A RECENT ARTICLE entitled "Nothing Like Business as Usual," published Aug. 11, 2006, in Whiskey & Gunpowder, I outlined the...

An American energy expert is pushing for Australia to sign up to an international protocol to reduce its dependence on petroleum. The Oil De...

Jeremy Leggett. Peak Oil, climate change, and the daunting arithmetic of carbon fuels. The Fifth International Conference of the Association...

With little doubt today the United States is being confronted with a crisis of major proportions. As world oil demand keeps growing and oil ...

BP Plc’s shutdown of the largest US oil field may be the first of many, as decaying pipelines threaten to add 20% to energy prices in the ne...

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman last week proclaimed September Renewable Fuels Awareness Month. Nebraska Corn Board Executive Director Don H...

An estimated $30 billion a year is pouring into developing liquefied natural gas. Despite concerns over the safety and the cost of importing...

NEW YORK Worries that a tropical storm front approaching the Caribbean could strengthen and head toward the Gulf of Mexico, where about a fi...

THE Bracks Government has been challenged to establish an office of oil vulnerability to assess the impact of declining global oil productio...

Gasoline shortages and even higher prices loom, a new government report says, and it will take decades and trillions of dollars to replace A...

Given the fact that planet Earth is finite, it follows that the oil under the Earth's surface is finite as well. The point will come, if...

Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler were interviewed on November 1, 2005 by Glenn Mitchell on KERA 90.1, the local PBS station in Dallas, Texas. (...

DETERMINING HOW TO respond to the terrorist challenge has become a major public policy issue in the United States over the last three years....

As a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, I am excited to see the amazing progress our team is making. The twelve members of the Task...

Oil is close to running out, and chaos will follow, according to a US expert. Nick Galvin reports. RICHARD HEINBERG is an unlikely latter-da...

WORLD oil production will peak in just 1500 days. After that, oil shortages will force massive changes to our lifestyle and business, expert...

Despite the recent rally, some stock market analysts are still concerned about a possible economic slowdown that could lead to a recession. ...

The venerable and entertaining Matthew Simmons of Simmons International investment banking has managed to tweak the ear of the media once ag...

Lately, I've been freaking out over Peak Oil. For the uninitiated, Peak Oilers envision a fitful collapse of our hyper-industrial societ...

This week the UN is to come up with a sanctions resolution that will keep Iran's two million barrels a day of exports flowing and at the...

PARIS BP's shutdown of the largest U.S. oil field may be the first of many, as decaying pipelines threaten to add to already soaring ene...

I have been involved in politics for over 30 years and have never seen the American people so angry. It’s not unusual to sense a modest amou...

The eternal truth in the investment world is that every asset class goes through boom and bust cycles, which typically last for several year...

Lost in the fallout from BP's shut-down at Prudhoe Bay is the fact that the system is getting better, and oil supplies are growing, says...

"According to OPEC, in June 2006 Russia extracted 9.236 million barrels of oil, which is 46,000 barrels more than Saudi Arabia. The sta...

Oil production looks set to peak in the mid-to-late 2020s, but the decline will be offset as high fuel costs accelerate the quest for other ...

The first proper speech of ASPO 5 was by Dr. Colin Campbell, and was called ‘Peak Oil in Perspective’. Here is an overview of what he said. ...

On January 20, 2002, President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address stated: States like these, and their terrorist allies, const...