Is our obsession with the cuts blinding us to the oil shock?
The BBC's Evan Davis made a very interesting point when interviewing Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls this morning on Radio 4. Trying to wrongfoot Balls,...
Time to up our game!
May 31, 2011
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is fast becoming the scariest organisation in the world - almost every press release contains extraordinarily bad news - that peak...
Worried about Peak Oil? You might be 5 years too late.
May 3, 2011
In the last week, UK newspapers have been dominated by two pieces of news - the Royal Wedding and the death of Bin Laden -...
The Politics of Oil
Mar 7, 2011
This weekend the global oil situation finally made its way onto the front pages of the UK press with, for example, The Guardian's report on...
Are you prepared for an oil shock?
Feb 23, 2011
Yesterday I was writing a piece on major problems in the oil industry for The Sustainability Forum (it should go up today or tomorrow it's...
Is the peak oil cat out of the bag?
Feb 9, 2011
Interesting article buried in the Guardian this morning - one of the Wikileaks cables concerned a 'reliable source' at Aramco, the Saudi national oil company,...
We all must go Beyond Petroleum, not just BP
Jun 7, 2010
Finally BP seem to be getting a grip, quite literally, on the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But with its stock value...
M King Hubbert & Peak Oil Theory
Nov 26, 2009
If anyone is interested in the background to the concept of peak oil, I've just posted a profile of the godfather of peak oil, M...
Is there a peak oil cover up?
Nov 11, 2009
Until recently I've been agnostic about 'peak oil' - I've been in the "we'll only know when it happens" camp, but as the issue has...
The risk of oil price rises
Oct 23, 2009
Very interesting speech this week by John B Hess of oil exploration company Hess Corporation at the somewhat unsubtly titled "Oil and Money" conference in...