OGPSS - The Harvard Energy Report, another cough

The OGPSS posts of the last few months have been following a path of looking in a relatively realistic manner at crude oil production with e...

OGPSS - The top 30 oil producers, a review

These posts have been going through the EIA list of the top oil producers in the world, over the past few weeks, I thought I might just revi...

Revolution - the threat to American imports

The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are currently in the middle of a series of popular uprisings. While it is not poss...

The Mayor and the Monthly OPEC Oil Report

A couple of days ago Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, had a column in the Biritish Telegraph about his shock at having to pay just ov...

Flying around the Iceland ash cloud

Yesterday I flew back from the United Kingdom through Chicago. After takeoff I glanced at the flight indicator and saw the following pictur...

Richard Heinberg’s “Blackout - Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis”

When this new book was about to be published the editors at The Oil Drum were offered a review copy, and I was offered the chance to provide...

2009 Energy Conference - Meeting the growing demand for liquids

The third session of the conference dealt with either electrical power generation or transportation fluids. In reality that meant, for the s...

Why we aren't buying a new car (yet)

I have mentioned earlier this year that we are thinking of buying a car. In fact we are planning on replacing an eleven-year old vehicle w...

P44. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Well the new Administration now has a new budget, and there are significant changes for the fossil f...

P43. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: I wrote earlier today about the pickup in gasoline demand that EIA had reported, and this was also n...