NBC, Pickens spar over foreign oil ad
US study suggests high petrol prices leading to safer roads
California moves on bill to curb sprawl and emissions

Fuel prices drive cars off the roads
Safe in our cages
Rush for oil reaches Britain's fields

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective

Call to tackle UK business waste
Save your trash: An interview with Ari Derfel
Eric Lombardi's zero waste park

World Bank increases fossil-fuel funding despite pledge
Polar bears' long swims blamed on global warming
Global warming time bomb trapped in Arctic soil: study

Predator-Prey Dynamics in Demand Destruction and Oil Prices
Heinberg: GM Pines for electric car
Traductions de John Michael Greer (French)
Looming energy crisis In Mexico stirs debate (audio)
The Economist’s Online Debate Series on solving the world’s energy crisis

In order to shed light on how Mexico's oil decline will impact the nation, the present analysis focuses on how declining oil revenues will impact five core facets of Mexican society: 1) Social Progress 2) Economic Growth 3) Inequality 4) Political Stability 5) Migration.

Can a dose of recession solve climate change?
David Holmgren interview - transcripts now online
Interview with William R. Catton, Jr. - author of "Overshoot"(video)
President of National Academy of the Sciences: Energy Challenges

Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden's energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens' plan and California's Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey

The Dean of Dung is Back - and Full of Gas!
Bloomberg offers windmill power plan
New York Mayor sees conservation as main path to energy savings
Golden image of corn-based ethanol shows some erosion