Peak oil review - July 9
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including: -Oil and the global economy -Economic growth -The Iranian confrontation -Quote of the week -Briefsread more
View ArticleOil, wherever we can find it - July 10
- Norway: A Political Risk Lesson For Oil (oil workers strike, prices rise) - Are Natural Gas Liquids as Good as Oil? - „Das ganze Land in Gebrauch nehmen“ - Norway plans to drill in the Arcticread more
View Article(There ain’t no) green jobs
Jobs, or rather the lack of, have been a major issue during the last French elections. This is hardly surprising as mass unemployment has been a fact of life in France for a whole generation....
View ArticleThe end of the European dream
The European debt crisis is making the front page, again. Moody has changed the outlook of Germany to negative and Spain is forced to borrow at more and more unsustainable rates. The fate of the Euro...
View ArticleA grand plan to save Italy from collapse
Yesterday, Mr. Angelino Alfano, leader of Italy's "People of Freedom" (PdL) party, publicly presented a plan aimed at saving Italy from economic collapse. I listened to the whole thing. And I was...
View ArticleGreece: A traveler's perspective
The media is full of scary stories about what is happening in Greece - but what is the situation really like at ground level? The heart-breaking beauty is still there, the 1,400 islands with soils so...
View ArticlePic pétrolier : deux vice-présidents de Total répondent à Oil Man
English summary: Total has agreed to present on my blog its scenario on world future oil production. No peak oil in sight according to Total, provided the industry puts on stream 45 Mb/d in the next 15...
View ArticleCommunity Energy in Lewes
Ouse Valley Energy Supply Company, or Ovesco as it is commonly known, is a powerful inspiration for enthusiasts of community renewable energy....Standing on a hill above Lewes you can not only see the...
View ArticleSwedish eco-village hosts role-play of life after peak oil
In early October, the eco-village, Änggärdet, Sweden, hosted two days of Live Action Role-Play (LARP) along the theme of life 2016-2027, post peak oil and post economic collapse. Players got the...
View ArticleGay, gay, marrions-les
France is about to legalize gay marriage. This has caused some turmoil in some part of the opinion and the right wing opposition bitterly opposes it, mostly, I think, to show they are indeed the...
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