1/31: Eating Local For The Winter:  (Burlington Free Press) - Thankfully Bill McKibben doesn't depend on coffee or tea to begin his day.  If he did, the environmental writer and Middlebury College scholar-in-residence might have had a more challenging time surviving for seven months almost entirely on foods grown within a few dozen miles of his Ripton home.

1/31: OPEC Keeps Crude Output Ceiling Unchanged at 28M b/d: (FWN Financial News, via Rigzone) - OPEC ministers agreed Tuesday to keep their crude oil output ceiling unchanged at 28 million barrels a day, near maximum capacity, amid sky-high oil prices and geopolitical tension.

1/30: Energy Supply Fears Haunt Economic Outlook: (Reuters via yahoo!) - The shadow of disruptions to energy flows crept across an otherwise sanguine week's meeting of executives and world leaders at the World Economic Forum.  The international dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions, militant attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria and Russia's gas disputes with its neighbors have raised the profile of energy supply security this month.

1/30: Squeezing The Last Drop of Oil: (BusinessWeek online) - Companies used to leave plenty of oil within wells and move on. Now technology is allowing adventurous outfits to get at what was once inaccessible.

1/29: ConocoPhillips, BP To Invest Millions in Alaska Project:  (Alaska Journal) - With oil prices high and gas pipeline negotiations apparently in a final stage, North Slope oil producers are in a buoyant mood.  ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. says it will be spending $1 billion on new oil satellite fields near the Alpine oil field in the next three years, and recently completed a $500 million expansion of its West Sak viscous oil project in the Kuparuk River field

1/27: EU Energy Chief say Europe Must Cut Consumption: (Reuters) - Europe's biggest challenge if it wants to reduce future dependency on external energy supplies is to cut oil consumption for transport

1/28: Study gives mixed review of ethynol:  (San Jose Mercury News) - A new study claims to settle a decades-long dispute over the use of ethanol as a motor fuel, saying it can reduce dependence on foreign oil but does not yet provide significant environmental benefits.

1/26: Repsol Announces 25% Reserve Cuts: (Financial Times) - Shares in Repsol YPF were suspended on Thursday as the Spanish oil and gas group revealed it would have to revise down proven reserves equivalent to 25 per cent of its total.

1/26: The Great Alberta Oil Rush:  (BBC News) - Alberta is experiencing a huge and expensive oil rush, and Fort McMurray is at the centre of it.

1/26: Energy GAP - Crisis For Humanity?:  (BBC News) - It is perhaps too early to talk of an energy "crisis".  But take your pick from terms like "serious concern" and "major issue" and you will not be far from the positions which analysts are increasingly adopting.

1/22: Oil Reserves Report "Not Accurate: (Gulf Daily News) - A senior Kuwaiti oil official has cast doubt on the accuracy of a report by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) that the Opec producer's oil reserves are only half those officially stated.

1/20: What They Don't Want You To Know About The Coming Oil Crisis: (The Independent) -  Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output... Is something sinister goin gon?  Yes, says former oil man Jeremy Leggett, and it's time to face the fact that the supplies we so depend on are going to run out.

1/19: Viewpoint: Iran's 'Inalienable Right' To Nuclear Energy: (Middle East Times) - Iran has an "inalienable right" to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes such as the production of electric energy, and the enrichment of uranium for its nuclear reactors. Could it be that Iran's plan for an oil exchange trading in Euros is the real issue? Or is it Israel?

1/19: US Won't Run Out Of Fuel If Iran Flow Stops: (Rigzone) - The chief economist of the largest oil trade industry group in the U.S. said Thursday he didn't expect the country to suffer prolonged gasoline shortages if Iranian oil exports were halted as long as the federal government does not attempt to control prices.  "In all likelihood it will be a tight market," said John Felmy of the American Petroleum Institute. "But as long as the market system is allowed to work we will have price adjustments that allocate scarce supplies," he told reporters at a briefing, "I would not expect to see shortages." Oil prices have soared in recent days, threatening to surpass the record high of $70.85 amid mounting tensions between Iran and the U.S. and European allies over Iran's resumption of its nuclear program.

1/15:  Oil Crash, (Website) - This new documentary about  Peak Oil has been selected for screening at the South by Southwest Festival (www.sxsw.com ) in Austin, TX. The festival takes place from March 10 - 19, 2006. A press conference, details of which will be communicated later, will be held during the festival.  In this compelling and highly entertaining documentary, OilCrash, Producers/Directors Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack together with Reto Caduff explain why the imminent peak in oil production will present the world with the most dire and immediate repercussions. OilCrash is the story of how our civilization as we know it, is on a collision course with geology.

1/12: The Peak Oil Crisis: New years 2006: (Energy Bulletin) - It's a good time to review -- looking backwards at what we learned in 2005 and forward at what might be in store for 2006.

1/10: GreenPower Partners: Top 25 Partners: (U.S. EPA) - a list of the Top 25 Partners in the Green Power Partnership. Top 25 Partners are Partners whose annual green power purchase is the largest, and whose green power purchase has been completed.

1/06: BBC Radio's "Farming Today" on energy depletion, alternative fuels and food security: (BBC) -- BBC Radio's daily "Farming Today" report on Friday 6th January 2006 begins with, There are seven and a half million people in the greater London area. They all need feeding. But what would happen if the oil ran out?"

December, 2005

12/15:  Oil Apocalypse:  Six months ago, an analyst group made up of former top-level U.S. government officials calculated a global oil scenario beginning RIGHT NOW, December of 2005...

12/01: Deffeyes: The Peak of World Oil Production: Thanksgiving Day, 2005: (Global Public Media) - Lecture in streaming audio -- Kenneth Deffeyes' December 1, 2005 Lauritsen Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, entitled "The Peak of World Oil Production: Thanksgiving Day 2005" (length 1 hour 16 min).  Excellent overview of the issue.

8/2005: The Impact of Oil On Our Future: (OptionsTradingLessons.com) -  The high price of oil is going to make the price of producing goods and services more expensive.  Guess who will assume the burden of that increase? Us!   When it becomes expensive to borrow money, firms usually cut back on growth.  With pressure on prices these very firms will have to increase the price of their goods and services.  As prices go up, demand will start to fall and to stay profitable those firms will start cutting staff.