Last week, peak oil skeptics could breath a sigh of relief when “BP announced… a giant oil discovery at its Tiber prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.“ 
At 11km deep the drilling itself is notable, but the real excitement comes from parsing the word “giant.”  As the FT points out, the IEA defines [...]

Many people are wondering whether the future will be “green” or “business-as-usual.” The answer in our view is “No.” It will be neither. It will be BOTH.
Opinions about the future tend to fall into one of two camps. The “Green” camp advocates “cap-and-trade,” wind power, solar power, electric vehicles, a simpler lifestyle with less transport, [...]

A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stranded on a deserted island. A case of canned food washes ashore. The physicist says “I can open these cans by climbing that tree and dropping rocks on them!” The chemist says, “No, I can open these cans by creating a corrosive solution from salt water and [...]

Summer vacation season is here and we expect that Times editorial board may be having a hard time getting quality content, which may explain why they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with “Peak Oil is a Waste of Energy” by Michael Lynch on the op-ed page.
Michael Lynch has been speaking and publishing for [...]

- The latest issue of Foreign Affairs is out and is filled with climate and energy related issues: an analysis of the upcoming Copenhagen Conference,  “Black Carbon” emissions, Cap and Trade versus a Carbon Tax, and a contrarian forecast for an extended period of low oil prices.  We expect some insightful commentary from this well-respected [...]

This short article is the first we’ve seen in the general media of a trend that was highlighted by Jeff Rubin in his book, ”Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization.”
His thesis: the era of cheap oil (light, low sulfur, conventionally extracted) is over.  Depletion rates [...]

– Things are heating up with respect to curbing speculation in oil markets.  The FSA in the UK and CFTC here in the US are both back at trying to de-speculate oil markets.  While the WSJ and Economist fight it out over just how much of a role speculation has actually played in the [...]

There must be something about mid-July that triggers looking back.
A year ago July may turn out to be the date of “Peak Oil” although it will be many more years before we know for sure.
40 years ago on July 20, 1969 was the first manned lunar landing.  (And NASA is announcing plans to return to [...]

Okay, the pile on Sarah Palin  is so high that we’re just going to crawl on top of it.  We refer you to an op-ed on Cap and Trade she wrote for yesterday’s Washington Post.
Why is this the new focus of her attention? Because, Obama’s Cap and Trade Energy Plan “is at the top of [...]

Today’s New York Times was heavily tilted to renewable energy, both purposely and not:
Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide: The lack of a national grid is a common complaint/refrain for renewable power developers: optimal generating sites are located far from end users. This is an interesting scoop, then, from Matt Wald on [...]