Energy Efficiency

With all the oil producing regions experiencing rioting in the streets and the USA wafling on about no-fly zones in Lybia does anyone wonder why there is no support for democracy in Saudi Arabia? Hilllary Clinton and others are outraged about the suppression of protests, yet when Saudi troops arrived in Bahrain what happened? Nothing. [...]

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Several years ago I suggested that we had passed Peak Oil – when the reserves left were less than half of what we ‘had’ - while the International Energy Agency claimed we were nowhere near even reaching half way; that known and unknown reserves would see us right for a long time. Well, now the IEA has stated [...]

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Chinese officials have warned of a severe threat to wildlife from one of the country’s worst reported oil spills as an army of volunteers was dispatched to beaches to try to head off the black tides. At least one man has drowned in crude during the clean-up operation, which has expanded as the area of [...]

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Iran claims to have ‘saved’ $11 billion through fuel rationing since 2007 and its interesting to note that currently they extract about 4 million barrels of oil a day and sell about 2.5 million of barrles a day and although their population is 74 million; they aren’t in the top ten consumers. They distributed 17 [...]

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This article is by Christian A. DeHaemer; it is unnerving. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow and flame.- Saruman, The Lord of the Rings and there is something primordial about BP’s quest for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s an Icarus-like [...]

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