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Supplies - May 15
No plans to cut crude exports: Iran official
Money motivates Iran to consider output cut
Oil's murky math (lack of good data)
High oil prices rekindle oil production in Mo.
published May 15, 2008.

Prices - May 15
Oil industry costs continue steep rise: CERA
ConocoPhillips: High oil prices not "a friend"
Emerging markets 'to keep oil prices high'
Fund manager: Oil could reach $200
Fuel subsidies part of the problem?
published May 15, 2008.

The Age of Aquarius
Prices may fall later this year, but will not likely dip below the $110/barrel floor price. It is actually more likely that the price will continue to rise this year, as Goldman Sachs believes, because 1) stuff happens, e.g. deepwater project delays, project cost inflation, blown-up pipelines, and 2) we are now living in Flatland.
published May 14, 2008.

Peak oil - May 14
Martin Wolf (FT): oil prices an 'an early warning of stark reality'
CNN briefing on oil
Truth and lies about world's oil supply
Glenn Beck interviews Kunstler
Peak oil on BBC's 'You and Yours'
published May 14, 2008.

Supplies and prices - May 14
Iran report pushes oil to new record, gas jumps above $3.73
Iran 'reviewing' crude output cut
Senate votes to halt strategic oil stockpiling
'Congress should not tamper with the SPR'
Senators threaten Saudi arms deal over oil prices
published May 14, 2008.

Problems - May 14
Floods in Australia coal-mine raise costs of cars, planes, washers
Gas 'chimneys' sweep BP clean coal plan away
New wave of nuclear plants faces high costs
published May 14, 2008.

Peak oil - May 13
Dion, leader of Canada Liberals: 'the peak oil era is happening and we need to prepare'
Heinberg on Australia's "Lateline"
Paul Krugman: The oil nonbubble
The peak oil culture wars
An oil bubble? EIA's odd forecasts
Popular Mechanics on peak oil
Does peak oil mean no more large engines?
published May 13, 2008.

Supplies & prices - May 13
Hints of a shift at OPEC about a rise in output
Bush prepares to press Saudis on oil
European natural gas security
Nanotechnologies could improve oil recovery
published May 13, 2008.

Peak oil: “It’s the flows, stupid!”
Because they don’t understand peak oil, many reporters keep getting the story wrong. Because they don’t understand peak oil, some in the U.S. Congress and Senate now threaten to sue OPEC. Because they don’t understand peak oil, business journals keep whining that producer nations don’t practice rational economics.
published May 12, 2008.

Peak Oil Review -- May 12th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
- Production and Prices
- ASPO-Ireland's Depletion Model
- The Goldman Sachs Forecast
- Brazil's Deepwater Discovery
- Energy Briefs
published May 12, 2008.

Peak oil - May 12
ASPO President Kjell Aleklett's blog: Future of OPEC?
The end of OPEC
Peak oil and what it means to Long Island
Low supply - end of the road for cheap oil
published May 12, 2008.

Prices - May 12
Jad Mouawad: Politicians search for a solution to high oil prices, answers evade them
A peek behind the price at the pump (sinking dollar)
Mystery Indian analyst spooks world economy (Murti of Goldman Sachs)
published May 12, 2008.

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Deep thought - May 15
Kunstler and Orlov interview
Climate change and public health
Sharon Astyk: Problems and principles of energy descent
David Korten: Navigating the Great Turning from empire to earth community
Clay Shirky on deploying the cognitive surplus for the public good
published May 15, 2008.

The food system - May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel's Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
published May 15, 2008.

Food & agriculture - May 15
U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Indians bristle at U.S. criticism on food prices
Jump in food prices biggest in 18 years
Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise
More signs of trouble for corn crop
Rodale urges expansion of organic farming
published May 15, 2008.

North America - May 15
Little inflation in April - as long as you didn't eat and kept your car in the garage
McCain's gift to the green movement
The Battery and the Charger B.C. and Alberta need each other’s power
published May 15, 2008.

Solutions & sustainability - May 15
Juneau cuts electricity use 30% in weeks
School not always greener (but it could be)
Sustainability for competitive advantage
If your appliances are avocado, they probably aren’t green
published May 15, 2008.

Climate - May 15
Huge study documents changes from climate warming
A climate change industrial policy (concerns of the military)
Water-cooled supercomputer to study climate
Are Myanmar’s storm victims suffering needlessly?
published May 15, 2008.

Renewables - May 15
Biofuels majority of non-OPEC oil growth
New source for biofuels discovered- cyanobacteria
World's largest offshore wind farm in the works
Wave/geothermal - energy return on investment (EROI)
published May 15, 2008.

Green industry hub rises from Rust Belt ruins
Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts - audio and video available)
published May 14, 2008.

Transport - May 14
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Nissan plans electric car in U.S. by ’10
Diesel cars - promises and problems
published May 14, 2008.

United States - May 14
Rachman (FT): 'The pursuit of oil is fundamental to US foreign policy.'
McCain: Clean energy a 'national security issue'
Democratic candidates play up 'clean coal'
Review of Apollo’s Fire on energy policy
published May 14, 2008.

Metals - May 14
Military cracks down on scrap-metal scavengers
Metal theft plagues troubled neighborhoods
Some homes worth less than their copper pipes
Copper theft could have been deadly
Preventing home copper-tubing theft
Steel once again a hot commodity
published May 14, 2008.

Renewables - May 14
Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE's John Mizroch - Renewable gigawatts
published May 14, 2008.

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