Peak Oil Digest

The digest has been suspended.  For current information on peak oil, gas and energy issues the following websites are good sources:
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil http://www.peakoil.net/
The Oil Drum http://www.theoildrum.com/
 The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas http://www.appgopo.org.uk/
Happy reading! 
 
Weekly Peak Oil Digest prepared by Dr Mike Haywood, St Mabyn, Bodmin, Cornwall,UK       mike [at] mikehaywoodart [dot] co [dot] uk 
You may not have time to read all the articles. To help you be selective, those articles which I consider an essential read, I have prefixed with XXXXX
 Peak Oil and mainstream media
The 'Peak Oil' Theory: Will Oil Reserves Run Dry? http://www.cnbc.com/id/23728987
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
XXXXX Oil demand to reach 94.3 million barrels a day by 2012 - IEA http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/03/21/Mzk5MDE%3D/Oil_demand_to_reac...
The 'Peak Oil' Theory: Will Oil Reserves Run Dry? http://www.cnbc.com/id/23728987
End of oil: End of another human era http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1862
UK: Soaring demand pushes price of diesel to record level http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/soaring-demand-pushes-pr...
Obama eyes active role in U.S. oil markets http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN20344487
Oil crisis is a desperate cry for capital http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=731707
'Peak oil' - Are we prepared for it? http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323/BUSINES...
XXXXX Black Swans Everywhere http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/03/black-...
Oil prices and supplies - March 23 http://www.energybulletin.net/41854.html
The 'Peak Oil' Theory: Will Oil Reserves Run Dry? http://www.cnbc.com/id/23728987
The Russian Bear Awakens: A Global Macro View http://seekingalpha.com/article/69755-the-russian-bear-awakens-a-global-...
Mexico's oil production falls 6.4 percent in first two months of year http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/24/business/LA-FIN-Mexico-Oil-Pro...
Can Less Oil Consumption in the West Lead to Lower Global Demand? http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2008/03/can-less-oil-consumption-in...
Peak Oil Review - March 24th, 2008 http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=341&It...
ODAC Newsletter http://odac-info.org/newsletter/2008/03/21
The Economy and Crude Oil http://www.financialsense.com/Market/barbera/2008/0325.html
Oil Firms 'In Liquidation,' Says 'Peak Oil' Advocate Simmons http://www.cnbc.com/id/23794175
Fundamentals of Peak Oil http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8053133027439445734
The Peak Oil Crisis: Load Shedding http://www.fcnp.com/national_commentary/the_peak_oil_crisis_load_sheddin...
XXXXX Too Far, Too Fast: The Trouble with $100 Oil http://www.sovereignsociety.com/offshore2551.html
The Pied Piper of Peak Oil http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/03/26/the-pied-piper-of-peak-oi...
The oil slickers will survive http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/03/26/12513_opinion.htm...
Peak oil is bunkum
Reserves don't matter as much as the cost of getting the oil out the ground http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080320.IBEUROPE20/TPS...
Shell exec says world not running out of oil http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59502
Consequences of peak oil
The paradox of production http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/03/paradox-of-production.htm...
XXXXX The expected economic impact of an energy downturn http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3747
XXXXX A recipe for disaster http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&It...
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
101 Things You Can Do About Climate Change & Peak Oil http://becomingsarahj.blogspot.com/2008/03/101-things-you-can-do-about-c...
Peak Oil and Climate Change
New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120613138379155707.html
Peak Oil vs. Global Warming http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20080325/
Peak Oil and War/military
FACTBOX-US military fuel spending http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN20416568
Global and National recessionary trends
The Great Unwind has begun, Citigroup Inc. strategists warned on Wednesday. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/great-unwind-has-started-avoid/sto...
The Street on Welfare http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR200803...
Homes at risk as banks seek more security for credit card debt http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_...
NY Times: Debt-Gorged British Start to Worry That the Party Is Ending http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/business/worldbusiness/22debt.html?ref...
XXXXX The end of capitalism as we know it? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/outside-view-the-end-...
The Independent: Homebuyers hit as bank crisis turns the mortgage clock back 15 years http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/homebuyers-hit-as-bank-c...
The Times: Credit crunch: Risk-taking http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_...
XXXXX Sighs of trouble http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/03/21/business/20080321_ECON.html...
XXXXX The financial system What went wrong http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10881318&ref=...
XXXXX The Financial Centipede: Waiting for the Next 99 Shoes to Drop http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar08/financial-centipede.html?ref=patrick...
Blue moon economics http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/03/blue-moon-economics.html
XXXXX Housing Crash Unaffected By Fed Actions http://seekingalpha.com/article/69604-housing-crash-unaffected-by-fed-ac...
Fed's rescue halted a derivatives Chernobyl http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/23/ccfed1...
Artemis's Derek Stuart warns more trouble ahead for banks http://www.citywire.co.uk/professional/-/news/fund-news/content.aspx?ID=...
XXXXX Banks Hiding Desperation as US Housing Slump Continues http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4109.html?ref=patrick.net
Wall Street May Face $460 Bln in Losses, Goldman Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awTVtVvJeSJQ&refer=p...
Our Financial House of Cards http://www.mises.org/story/2926?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX When the going gets tough, banks yelp for nanny http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/26/ccjeff...
Market Watch: Bond insurer FGIC falls below key regulatory capital level http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/bond-insurer-fgic-falls-below/stor...
Dominos: How Bear Stearns default threatens the entire world financial system http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Bear_Stearns_and_Domino_Effect_0325.ht...
Credit crunch 'at $1.2 trillion' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7313637.stm?ref=patrick.net
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
U.S. Economy: Existing-Home Sales Rise, Prices Fall http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=a4sCP7Jq9Aec&refer=r...
Times Online: US confidence and house prices stage record falls http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_...
Case-Shiller 10 City Index Worst Drop Since 1987 http://www.mybudget360.com/housing-market-case-shiller-10-city-index-wor...
Median price of existing CA house fell 26.2% http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/riverside/20080324-1240-homesales.htm...
February Existing Home Sales Fell 23.8% http://seekingalpha.com/article/69668-february-existing-home-sales-fell-...
Times: Paulson warns US house prices must plunge http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_...
New-Home Sales in U.S. Fall to Lowest in 13 Years http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aI3nha7eAc84&refer=n...
Peak Oil Digest ending 20th March 2008
XXXXX        A Peak Oil Comic Strip       http://www.transmission-x.com/luz/2007/10/26/hello-world/
 
 

Peak Oil and mainstream media

 
Peak Oil? Industry Numbers Disagree       http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/03/14/peak-oil-industry-numbers-disagree/?mod=googlenews_wsj

Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security

 
Schlesinger: No Energy Security in Sight      http://www.usnews.com/blogs/beyond-the-barrel/2008/3/13/schlesinger-no-energy-security-in-sight.html
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Last Spiral?       http://www.fcnp.com/news/the_peak_oil_crisis_the_last_spiral_20080312.html
Three Ways to Play Prediction That Oil Prices Will Reach $187 a Barrel     http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/03/13/three-ways-to-play-money-mornings-prediction-that-oil-prices-will-reach-187-a-barrel/
Peak oil overview - March 2008             http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3726
China – World's Largest Miner – Is Short of Coal     http://www.chinastakes.com/story.aspx?id=254
Peak oil issue is a very serious one       http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=153926&src=
Running on empty?         http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=a93eaef3-c051-4960-a198-d58d5851e7bf
Peak Oil Passnotes:      http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=41220
XXXXX     Is peak oil theory only for fascists?    http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2008/03/is-peak-oil-the.html
Supply Chain and $200 Oil   http://www.scdigest.com/assets/FirstThoughts/08-03-13.php?cid=1547
FOOD, FUEL, AND FASCISM: Their Election Or Your Life?      http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_carolyn__080313_food_2c_fuel_2c_and_fasc.htm
US fuel dealers seek emergency heating oil release      http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14425366
XXXXX    Shell to write off half of last year's reserves     http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/16/royaldutchshell.oil
Oil dependency fuels crisis      http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/346541
XXXXX      A Real Freak Out       http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/03/a-real-freak-ou.html?ref=patrick.net
Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson acknowledges peak oil      http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/392295.html
The Key Investment Questions For 2008 (And Beyond?)       http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
Sydney must prepare now for peak oil       http://news.theage.com.au/sydney-must-prepare-now-for-peak-oil/20080317-1zwt.html
They see bubbles everywhere now     http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/3/12/8243/81080
Sleepily eyeing a peak in world oil output        http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0317/p15s01-wmgn.html
Schlesinger: No Energy Security in Sight      http://www.usnews.com/blogs/beyond-the-barrel/2008/3/13/schlesinger-no-energy-security-in-sight.html
French PM warns that we are running out of oil     http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3732
Peak oil, uncommon ground     http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=337&Itemid=91
Peak Oil Review -- March 17th, 2008     http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336&Itemid=91
ODAC Newsletter       http://www.odac-info.org/newsletter/2008/03/14
Global oil production likely to peak in 2011 - analyst                  http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=129415
Doomsday scenario for oil            http://business.iafrica.com/news/306952.htm
Inflation Is Baked Into the Cake             http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=41259
A Complex Energy Crisis      http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2008/03/complex-energy-crisis.html
Are high crude oil prices here to stay?         http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=3&autono=317294&tab=r
Michael C. Lynch: Peak oil, uncommon ground           http://www.energybulletin.net/41628.html
Making the most of a global depression            http://www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/479/107/
EasyJet May Miss Earnings Target as Fuel Costs Rise       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602062&sid=aPVohEzU0yk8&refer=movers_by_index
Peak oil theorist goes mainstream in Cape Town      http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4311093
Will 'peak oil' leave travel agents high and dry?       http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/blogs/2008/03/will-peak-oil-leave-travel-age-1.html
The peak oil crisis: stirrings in Ottawa       http://www.fcnp.com/national_commentary/the_peak_oil_crisis_stirrings_in_ottawa_20080319.html
A milestone in the dust    http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2008/03/milestone-in-dust.html

 
Peak oil is bunkum
 
Shell CEO says no problem with oil supplies    http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL1742929620080317
Running on empty?    http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=a93eaef3-c051-4960-a198-d58d5851e7bf
Peak Oil Debunked         http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/07/307-confessions-of-ex-doomer.html
The Secret's out of the Bag in the Oil         http://www.americandaily.com/article/21794

 
Consequences of peak oil
 
XXXXX Do we have too much energy?     http://www.energybulletin.net/41611.html
KunstlerCast #2: Small Cities and Towns       http://globalpublicmedia.com/kunstlercast_2_small_cities_and_towns
More Local, Less Convenient and Less Often - the Future of Travel and Tourism after Peak Oil?        http://blog.highlandbusinessresearch.com/2008/03/19/more-local-less-convenient-and-less-often-the-future-of-travel-and-tourism-after-peak-oil/

 
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
 
XXXXX      Energy Descent Pathways Now Available as Free Download       http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/17/energy-descent-pathways-now-available-as-free-download/
Relocalization: An overview of an answer to peak oil crises       http://neighborhoodsurvival.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/relocalization-an-overview-of-an-answer-to-peak-oil-crises/

 
Peak Oil and Climate Change
 
XXXXX       David Suzuki: Blind date with disaster    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/12/conservation.climatechange
Global Warming & Peak Oil & Liquid Coal         http://lightvortex.livejournal.com/137227.html

 
Peak Oil and War/military
 

A Crude Case For War?       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/14/AR2008031403677.html


 
Peak Oil and Farming
 
Why your food is costing more money      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23632933/
XXXXX    Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis      http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/03/16/shortages_of_energy_food_worry_pakistanis/

 
Global and National recessionary trends
 
XXXXX     Debt Reckoning: U.S. Receives a Margin Call      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120554473788438679.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
Telegraph: Countrywide in a state over distressed debt     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/16/cncountry116.xml
Reuters: Fed takes emergency steps to help financial system             http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKN1650716620080317?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
Independent: Wall Street fears for next Great Depression           http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/wall-street-fears-for-next-great-depression-796428.html
Telegraph: A world addicted to easy credit must go cold turkey           http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/16/do1601.xml
XXXXX      America was conned - who will pay?         http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/17/economics.useconomy
MF Global Plunges on Concern Customers Pulling Funds       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amfjCraBVXNw&refer=patrick.net
XXXXX        Just how bad is the US recession?       http://www.moneyweek.com/file/43893/just-how-bad-is-the-us-recession.html
XXXXX     Interest Rates and the Dollar            http://optionarmageddon.blogspot.com/2008/03/interest-rates-and-dollar-exchange-rate.html?ref=patrick.net
London Metro: Britain faces worse housing crash than US       http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=122794&in_page_id=34
BBC News: Morgan Stanley profits fall 42%      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7304764.stm
UK housing on bring of recession        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=540308&in_page_id=1770
The world's central banks are worryingly far apart        http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10881032&ref=patrick.net
Global capitalism teeters on the brink    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080319.wxcofinance19/BNStory/specialComment/home?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX          Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/business/19leonhardt.html?_r=1&ref=patrick.net&oref=slogin
How This Crisis Is Different          http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702150.html?referrer=emailarticle&ref=patrick.net

 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
 
Foreclosures up 60% in February      http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/13/real_estate/foreclosures_feb/?postversion=patrick.net
XXXXX    Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis      http://tinyurl.com/2342gs
Home Prices Plunge Across California        http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gEw86y9UfttCi5fVcA0K4awUfqiQD8VCNPQ80
Fears mount over Bear Stearns’ exposure     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8dcdea64-f126-11dc-a91a-0000779fd2ac.html
XXXXX     More in foreclosure choose to walk away     http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/MNFFVI036.DTL&tsp=1&ref=patrick.net
How bad is the mortgage crisis going to get?      http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/14/news/economy/krugman_subprime.fortune/?postversion=patrick.net
Home equity no guarantee for retirement years      http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08076/865341-28.stm?ref=patrick.net
Alt-A Delinquencies Continue to Rise      http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080319/s_p_alt_a_mortgages.html?.v=patrick.net
Affluent homeowners, too, have mortgage problems        http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/19/business/mortgage.php?ref=patrick.net


Peak Oil Digest ending 7th March 2008

Peak Oil and mainstream media

 
Outside View: We can't cling to crude: we should leave oil before it leaves us       http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/outside-view-we-cant-cling-to-crude-we-should-leave-oil-before-it-leaves-us-790178.html
The crude fact         http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_leggett/2008/03/the_crude_fact.html
Hamish McRae: Boom in Asia means oil price will continue to rise above $100 a barrel       http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/hamish-mcrae/hamish-mcrae-boom-in-asia-means-oil-price-will-continue-to-rise-above-100-a-barrel-792089.html

 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security

 
XXXXX         Peak oil in Shell's National Dialogue on Energy Security             http://www-static.shell.com/static/us-en/downloads/energy_security/pdf/shell_final_report.pdf
Rep. Bartlett Delivers 38th Peak Oil Special Order Speech      http://video.energypolicytv.com/displaypage.php?vkey=5b72b2e7d3527cfc84fd&channel=Congress
Declining Oil Supply Means War Is ‘Fairly Probable,’ Rep. Bartlett Says            http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=38405&cat=1
Norway state oil group Petoro's Q4 output falls            http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSL2886990120080228?rpc=401&
The peak oil crisis: Catenaries and pantographs             http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2614&Itemid=35
Peak Oil Passnotes: The Race to the Bottom (of the Barrel)              http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=40888
Morgan Stanley: A Petrodollar Tsunami Is Coming         http://seekingalpha.com/article/65901-morgan-stanley-a-petrodollar-tsunami-is-coming
Petroleum engineer on peak oil            http://www.eptrail.com/pages/02friday_m/fri06comm.html
Intro to Satellite Sleuthing 101: Finding Haradh III          http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3671
China’s Industrial South Faces Its Worst Power Crunch in Decades         http://www.chinastakes.com/story.aspx?id=229
ODAC newsletter           http://www.odac-info.org/newsletter/2008/02/29
XXXXX         Soothsayers in suits           http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/03/soothsayers-in-suits.html
Peak oil “not a threat” for London mayor              http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=151
Peak Oil Review -- March 3rd, 2008       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327&Itemid=91
Ken Livingstone - Peak oil “opportunity” for London Mayor         http://globalpublicmedia.com/london_mayor_peak_oil_opportunity
Bread and Oil: Rising Food Prices and the Middle East           http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3690
Thirsting for Energy in India’s Boomtowns and Beyond          http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/asia/02india.html?_r=2&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Peak Oil is a Cost Issue        http://seekingalpha.com/article/67204-peak-oil-is-a-cost-issue
Bush: America Must 'Get Off Oil'        http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=ApAOo6Z2YqkGO9VHAAQQVPqkGjQD?ch=4226716&cl=6809502&lang=en
Warren Buffett on Net Energy and Peak Oil      http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3697
Oil's Wakeup Call      http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/03/04/sosnoff-peak-oil-oped-cx_mts_0305sosnoff.html
ASPO and peak oil theorists challenge Saudi Arabia        http://www.peakoil.net/press-releases/aspo-and-peak-oil-theorists-challenge-saudi-arabia
Force majeure       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=329&Itemid=91
XXXXX     Peak Oil - True Or False    http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman060308.htm
Oil's Wakeup Call    http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/03/04/sosnoff-peak-oil-oped-cx_mts_0305sosnoff.html
XXXXX         The Disconnect Between Oil Reserves and Production        http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3664
ASPO Newsletter - March 2008         http://www.aspo-ireland.org/contentFiles/newsletterPDFs/newsletter87_200803.pdf
Energy Among The Top Presidential Campaign Issues        http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Energy_Among_The_Top_Presidential_Campaign_Issues_999.html
Analysis: IEA stirs old controversies       http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Analysis_IEA_stirs_old_controversies_999.html

 
 
Peak oil is bunkum
 
XXXXX     The World Has Plenty of Oil           http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120459389654809159.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Peak oil?           http://www.env-econ.net/2008/03/peak-oil.html


 
Consequences of peak oil
 
XXXXX          http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/outside-view-we-cant-cling-to-crude-we-should-leave-oil-before-it-leaves-us-790178.html          http://www.riot4austerity.org/blog/?p=3014
XXXXX      Beyond hope and doom: Time for a peak oil pep talk           http://www.postcarbon.org/beyond_hope_and_doom_time_peak_oil_pep_talk_0
UK: Soaring fuel costs spark a tidal wave of diesel thefts              http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Soaring-fuel--costs-spark.3833086.jp
The peak oil crisis: polity on trial      http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2650&Itemid=35
The Next Agriculture      http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/

 
 
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
 
Post carbon living: beyond technofix        http://www.energybulletin.net/41231.html
How lessons from the last oil shocks may help to inform this one          http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/
Being self-sufficient a solution to the collapse of civilization      http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=928793
Bodman Says High Oil Price Caused by Low Supply        http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=adeC_tCbPnvE&refer=energy

 
Global and National recessionary trends
 
US Regulators are bracing for 100-200 bank failures         http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/27/bank.safety/index.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       Glenn Beck: Don't follow herd on the economy      http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/28/beck.commentary/index.html?ref=patrick.net
Daily Mail: Home sales 'to plunge by 20 per cent this year'        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=523075&in_page_id=1770
Times: Quantum's Jim Rogers says US 'out of control'              http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3451136.ece
More Americans using credit cards to stay afloat                 http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2008-02-28-credit-cards_N.htm
Treasury Tells a Very Scary Story             http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/10788101/c_10788433?f=home_todayinfinance
Junk sales mirror '91 recession and bankruptcies          http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2947877720080229?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Times: Housing market is on the brink of a slump as prices drop again            http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/property_and_mortgages/article3463473.ece
XXXXX   More Americans using credit cards to stay afloat         http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2008-02-28-credit-cards_N.htm
Iceland seeks to curb its banks               http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5fdff520-e893-11dc-913a-0000779fd2ac.html
XXXXX   How a Bubble Stayed Under the Radar          http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02view.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Fears of a commodity crash grow       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/04/cccomms104.xml
Cnn: Crumbling community       http://money.cnn.com/video/#/video/news/2008/03/03/news.willis.cleveland.cnnmoney
Troubles emerge in alt-A loans as delinquencies ratchet up        http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/troubles-emerge-alt-loans-delinquencies-ratchet/story.aspx?guid=%7B4363524A-D5E8-4119-925C-E850DE6DB551%7D
XXXXX       ‘Alt A’ mortgages add to pressure on banks           http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article3479539.ece
Firstrung: One in five mortgage holders are concerned about meeting their repayments in the next 12 months            http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=9147&cat=44-0-0
XXXXX           The coming financial pandemic          http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=350930&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX          In defence of scaremongers             http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/business/ambrosevanspritchard/mar08/fed-inflation.htm
US Regulators cite construction loan fears    http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=AP&Date=20080305&ID=8283314&Symbol=BAC&ref=patrick.net
Fraud compounds woes of housing crisis       http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/lf_nm/usa_housing_fraud_dc;_ylt=patrick.net
MoneyWeek: Why the UK can’t avoid falling into recession    http://www.moneyweek.com/file/43349/why-the-uk-cant-avoid-falling-into-recession.html
The Big Picture: Federal Reserve: Household Equity at all time lows      http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/03/underwater.html
Daily Mail: Mortgage bills rising at the 'fastest pace in living memory' despite Bank of England holding rates       http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=527470&in_page_id=1770

 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
 
Facing Default, Some Walk Out on New Homes      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/us/29walks.html?_r=1&ref=patrick.net&oref=slogin
Subprime loans defaulting even before resets             http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/20/real_estate/loans_failing_pre_resets/index.htm?postversion=2008022010
Grim News in Arizona State Budget and Sacramento City Budget              http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/03/grim-news-in-arizona-state-budget-and.html
Home debt greater than equity for first time since '45            http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-03-06-foreclosures_N.htm?ref=patrick.net

 
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 28th February 2008

 
Peak Oil and mainstream media
 
Peak oil denial       http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2008/02/peak-oil-denial.html
Libya's Ghanem sees oil prices rising further      http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7327592
XXXXX     Another Peek at the Plateau    http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/02/27/another-peek-at-the-plateau/

 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security

 
XXXXX    Branson acknowledges peak oil         http://globalpublicmedia.com/branson_acknowledges_peakoil
Peak Oil Task Force tells town to prepare for post-petroleum world      http://www.reformer.com/ci_8321731?source=most_emailed
Expert: Energy crisis here, climate change on the horizon      http://www.wickedlocal.com/lincoln/homepage/x257792203
Peak Oil Passnotes: China Has Spoken       http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=40701
China's Peak Oil Debate Still In Its Infancy         http://www.energyintel.com/documentdetail.asp?document_id=223784
Saudi Arabia urges rich countries not to use oil as weapon       http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6358957.html
Oil at $100 May Look `Cheap' Within Five Years, Alfa Bank Says    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602099&sid=aoz6VDOFWe60&refer=energy
End of the Oil Age   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm_0308_story1.html
Days Of Cheap And Easy Oil Are Over       http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Feb08/210208/nite01.htm
Adapt to dearer oil      http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2008-02/21/content_6472233.htm
Twilight In The Desert - The Risk Of Peak Oil      http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
Fossil fuel costs to grow      http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1039976.html
Can Turkish economy survive high energy prices?    http://www.turkishweekly.net/comments.php?id=2842
Dimensions of oil addiction           http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2008/02/25/02252008waclucas.html
Peak Oil Review - February 25th, 2008    http://www.energybulletin.net/40869.html
Looking back 10 years - Campbell's "The End of Cheap Oil"       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=324&Itemid=91
Renowned Peak Oil Expert Addresses Dubais Business Leaders       http://www.dubaicityguide.com/geninfo/news_dtls.asp?newsid=11476
Connecticut to hear testimony on establishment of a energy scarcity taskforce     http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/TOB/H/2008HB-05724-R00-HB.htm

Peak oil and Changing attitudes
 
XXXXX          http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/21/7201/

 
Consequences of peak oil
 
The five stages of collapse      http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html
 Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
 
Eugene, Oregon: Community and personal collapse preparation       http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/340/
Grassroots: Climate change and local government
Greenery from the bottom up        http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10736750
On the verge of a revolution       http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/on-the-verge-of-a-revolution/2008/02/19/1203190824164.html
Relocalize Newsletter #17 : February 2008       http://www.relocalize.net/newsletter/february08

 
Peak Oil and Climate Change
 
XXXXX    The Ultimate Race: Global Warming vs Peak Oil      http://www.energybulletin.net/40822.html
 
Peak Oil and War/military
 
XXXXX       Declining Oil Supply Means War Is ‘Fairly Probable,’ Rep. Bartlett Says       http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=38405&cat=1
Peak oil and healthcare/medecine

 

Peak Oil and money
 
Russia quietly prepares to switch some oil trading from dollars to rubles    http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/25/business/place.php

 
Global and National recessionary trends
 
XXXXX    The breakdown of Wall Street alchemy      http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JB20Dj03.html?ref=patrick.net
Telegraph: Citigroup facing further big write-downs      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/23/cnciti123.xml
XXXXX         Queue for the soup kitchen may start herehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/25/econom
XXXXX        FT: UBS on a Trillion Dollar Meltdown     http://www.ft.com/cms/893ac9c8-757e-11dc-b7cb-0000779fd2ac.html
Bernanke hints at more rate cuts       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7267393.stm

 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
 
Buy a house in Detroit for $100      http://www.realtor.com/search/searchresults.aspx?ctid=2959&ml=3&mxp=5&typ=7
Case-Shiller Home Price Data Shows Record Declines      http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/66298-december-2007-s-p-case-shiller-home-price-data-shows-record-declines?source=patrick.net
House-price fall accelerating      http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/real_estate/Case_Shiller_year_end/?ref=patrick.net

 
Peak Oil Digest ending 22nd February 2008


 

Peak Oil and mainstream media

 
Reasons to see red over green energy         http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/18/energy.economy
Has oil production peaked?      http://timesonline.typepad.com/environment/2008/02/has-oil-product.html
Paul Krugman: Feeling a bit peaked       http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/feeling-a-bit-peaked/

 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security

 
Peak Oil: The Next 5 Years      http://seekingalpha.com/article/64765-peak-oil-the-next-5-years
Peak Oil, IHS Data and The Broken Clock       http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3627
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future Of Our Cars - Part 4       http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2539&Itemid=35
With no oil solution, future looks dire       http://www.eenews.net/tv/video_guide/747
Gulf must curb its oil demand       http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=12418&ccid=12
Energy crisis making way for 'nuclear renaissance'      http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5546778.html
ODAC Newsletter - Feb 15         http://www.energybulletin.net/40449.html
CERA: Action needed to avoid oil crisis, Hess chief says         http://www.pennenergy.com/display_article/320225/7/PRARC/none/GenIn/1/CERA:-Action-needed-to-avoid-oil-crisis,-Hess-chief-says/
Crunch Time for Mexican Oil          http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120304250961670669.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
World Oil Forecasts Including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE - Update Feb 2008         http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3623
Iran oil bourse to open February 17       http://www.energybulletin.net/40371.html
The End of Big Oil     http://oilandglory.com/2008/02/end-of-big-oil.html
Western fears on Russian energy          http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bdaf4a8-dd7e-11dc-ad7e-0000779fd2ac.html
Despite record profits, oil companies find little comfort in high prices          http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/17/business/rnrgoilcos.php
Peak Oil Review - February 18, 2008      http://www.energybulletin.net/40521.html
China triples fuel oil consumption tax from Jan       http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7318220
Winning the Oil Endgame    http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/board/message?board.id=Environment&thread.id=2018
EIA Reiterates Need For OPEC To Increase Output       http://news.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/newsstory.aspx?selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&cpath=20080219%5cACQDJON200802191846DOWJONESDJONLINE000820.htm
The peak oil crisis: Connecting the dots          http://www.energybulletin.net/40608.html
XXXXX     Oil production constraints to cause "huge recession"         http://www.energybulletin.net/40615.html
U.S. Presidential candidates' staffs briefed on peak oil and the plastic plague           http://www.energybulletin.net/40601.html
US urged to fight fuel demand with cost            http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23223737-5005200,00.html
These are the good years          http://www.energybulletin.net/40595.html
Brunei: Days Of Cheap And Easy Oil Are Over          http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Feb08/210208/nite01.htm
Saudi financial plans rely on high oil prices      http://www.business24-7.ae/cs/article_show_mainh1_story.aspx?HeadlineID=2651
What is Canada doing about peak oil?     http://www.energybulletin.net/40663.html
Oil Independent Oakland report is released      http://www.energybulletin.net/40650.html

Peak oil and Changing attitudes
 
How expensive does oil have to get before your habits change?           http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/How-expensive-does-oil-have.3786641.jp

Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
 
Revinventing the Way We Live: Interview with Ray McCormack     http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/55169/revinventing-the-way-we-live-interview-with-ray-mccormack-co-director-of-a-/
XXXXX           Tantalising Glimpses of Resilience: the Introduction to The Transition Handbook           http://transitionculture.org/2008/02/19/tantalising-glimpses-of-resilience-the-introduction-to-the-transition-handbook/
Australia: Planning for peak oil - what it will mean       http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7028&page=1

Peak Oil and population
 
Population Growth and the United States’ Depleting Resources…     http://www.energyandoil.com/population-growth-and-the-united-states-depleting-resources
 
Peak Oil and population
 
How Big Oil Could Help on Climate Change in Iraq        http://www.usnews.com/blogs/beyond-the-barrel/2008/2/15/how-big-oil-could-help-on-climate-change-in-iraq.html
 
Peak Oil and money
 
Iran May Sell Oil in Rubles to Break `Dollar Slavery'       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=abC.2tT9Nphg&refer=energy
World Oil Forecasts Including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE - Update Feb 2008      http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3623
Iran oil bourse to open February 17       http://www.oxan.com/worldnextweek/2008-02-14/Iranianoilbourselaunches.aspx
Where Is All The Oil Money Going? (A look at Dubai)          http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-is-all-oil-money-going.html
XXXXX       Oil constraints to cause 'huge recession'      http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=144

 
Global and National recessionary trends
 
XXXXX    NY Times: A Crisis of Faith      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/opinion/15krugman.html?ref=opinion
Guardian: Treasury debt is twice Chancellor's 'sustainable' figure, says think-tank      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/feb/04/politics.money1
Independent: The debt advice that adds to the problem      http://www.independent.co.uk/money/mortgages/the-debt-advice-that-adds-to-the-problem-783216.html
Times: Don’t cave in to bankers who plead for more      http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3381600.ece
Economist: Still here      http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10711887&fsrc=RSS
The Times: Basket case Britain must rebuild its credibility      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/18/ccview118.xml
NYTimes: Arcane Market Is Next to Face Big Credit Test         http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/business/17swap.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print
Bush Administration Shuts Down Economic Indicators Site      http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/13/economic-indicators/?ref=patrick.net
Arcane Swaps Market Is Next to Face Big Credit Test           http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/business/17swap.html?ref=patrick.net
Citigroup bars investor exits from hedge fund        http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2008-02-15-citi-hedge_N.htm?ref=patrick.net
Economic Woes Reveal a Long-Felt Unease           http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080217/the_uneasy_economy.html?.v=2
Arcane Market Is Next to Face Big Credit Test             http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/business/17swap.html?ex=1203829200&en=066d388001262201&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
Basket case Britain must rebuild its credibility              http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/18/ccview118.xml
XXXXX     America's economy risks the mother of all meltdowns     http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20080219/bs_ft/fto021920081334359078;_ylt=patrick.net
XXXXX    Apartment walls will come tumbling down          http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3406269.ece
Citywire: Property: The diversity and detail beyond the property headlines        http://www.citywire.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?VersionID=101119&MenuKey=News.Home
MoneyWeek: Is America heading for a Japan-style crisis?          http://www.moneyweek.com/file/42298/is-america-heading-for-a-japan-style-crisis.html
German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse         http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,536635,00.html?ref=patrick.net
U.S. Jobless Benefit Rolls Rise to Highest Since 2005    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aYXJ0KI5Igts&refer=economy
French Inflation Quickens to 3.2%, Most in 12 Years      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aeJCIxRgapvo&refer=economy
Our Economic Dilemma      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120347007609178711.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
 
Countrywide says foreclosure rate at new record            http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021501037.html?hpid=moreheadlines&ref=patrick.net
Sell Your Real Estate Immediately               http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3701.html?ref=patrick.net
Rescues for Homeowners in Debt Weighed      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/business/22homes.html?_r=1&ref=patrick.net&oref=slogin


 
Peak Oil Digest ending 14th February 2008
Peak Oil and mainstream media
Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/02/07/cnoil107.xml
XXXXX     Apart from used chip fat, there is no such thing as a sustainable biofuel       http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/12/biofuels.energy
 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
XXXXX  Economic Report of the President mentions Peak Oil       Chapter 7, page 167 of the  http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/2008_erp.pdf
Back up the rabbit hole     http://www.energybulletin.net/39992.html
Oil Sector's Problem In Replacing Oil Reserves Could Worsen       http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802071055DOWJONESDJONLINE000765_FORTUNE5.htm
Peak oil rapidly approaching warns oil analyst        http://www.ameinfo.com/146155.html
Proportionality      http://www.richardheinberg.com/node/280
BP to ‘put lights out’ on North Sea       http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=139
Peak oil rapidly approaching warns oil analyst          http://www.ameinfo.com/146155.html
EU gas supplies at risk if Ukraine does not settle bill with Russia       http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2254937,00.html
OPEC could ditch dollars for euros: chief      http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080209/bs_afp/opeccommoditiesoilcurrency_080209001005;_ylt=ArCIxdpZrmOEsrJk42e3cxCAsnsA
Peak Oil Passnotes: Here Comes the Stag         http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=40355
Peak Oil Concerns Sail Safely Beneath the Radar               http://www.stpns.net/view_article.html?articleId=75548656467577867
'Peak oil' theory: Keeping the oil flowing      http://www.oxan.com/worldnextweek/2008-02-07/Keepingtheoilflowing.aspx
Oil Sector's Problem In Replacing Oil Reserves Could Worsen      http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802071055DOWJONESDJONLINE000765_FORTUNE5.htm
Big picture Russia: Oil production & taxes       http://www.prime-tass.com/news/show.asp?topicid=65&id=433364
Energy: The $22 trillion question      http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/08/news/economy/oil_conference/index.htm
The Second Great Depression          http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
BP: Changing perspectives on Peak Oil - Investment vs. Supply vs. Demand      http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2432/2/
Oil Insufficiency     http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=128&a=15753
Oil industry facing headwinds in 2008       http://uk.reuters.com/article/allBreakingNews/idUKN1055377720080210?rpc=401&
CERA vs. Peak Oil: it's getting serious    http://www.platts.com/weblog/oilblog/2008/02/cera_vs_peak_oil_its_getting_s.html
Oil crisis ahead? 'Peakniks' build for future      http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/10/0210peak.html
Peak Oil and "The Limits to Growth": two parallel stories          http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3550
XXXXX           A Primary Stocks Bear Market       http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3676.html
Venezuela's state oil company halts oil sales to Exxon Mobil    http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=BUSINESS&ID=565243934377642185
Nigeria: Oil-Export Reliability At Risk      http://allafrica.com/stories/200802120967.html
EIA: OPEC 1Q Output 32.2 Million B/D, +600,000 B/D Vs 4Q '07     http://news.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/newsstory.aspx?selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&cpath=20080212%5cACQDJON200802121312DOWJONESDJONLINE000669.htm
 
Consequences of peak oil
Oil Crisis Will Lead to 10-Year Financial & Political Crisis         http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=834
The peak oil crisis: the future of our cars – Part 3         http://www.energybulletin.net/40031.html
Dave Cohen's suburban savanna       http://www.energybulletin.net/40151.html
 
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Transition, Energy Descent Plans and Relocalisation in Australia.          http://wonderfulworldmedia.net/?p=137
Peak Oil and population
Overpopulation: Root Cause of Many Problems     http://news.lesswaiting.com/021108.html
 
Peak Oil and money
Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo       http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/185047,venezuela-moves-bank-accounts-after-exxon-embargo.html
 
Global and National recessionary trends
Meet the Weimar Dollar         http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12679
XXXXX   AIG: the horror   http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/
Times: House prices set to fall by 7% in next two years as credit squeeze bites        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/property_and_mortgages/article3359905.ece
Gata: Just as battered investors had begun to glimpse signs of recovery in America, the next shoe has dropped with an almighty thud in Japan. Echoes are rumbling across the Far East.    http://www.gata.org/node/5989
Telegraph: Standard of living will fall, warns Mervyn King       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/14/ninflation114.xml
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Auctioneers bring down hammer on America's broken dreams     http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/12/useconomy.usa
In Miami the fraud goes on      http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-miami-fraud-goes-on-by-gimleteye.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX    Understanding the Pyramid Scheme We Call Housing     http://dadtalk.typepad.com/dadtalk/2008/02/understanding-t.html?ref=patrick.net
Data show foreclosures make up half of houses sold in Calif     http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/12/financial/f104706S41.DTL&feed=patrick.net
CBS News: "Jingle mail:" The Awful Sound Of "Voluntary" Foreclosure      http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/12/couricandco/entry3822384.shtml
Collapse: L.A. housing prices drop 16.7% in five months       http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/02/collapse-la-hou.html?ref=patrick.net
Americans Selling Homes See Prices Go Below Mortgage (Update2)     http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=atrbI3FEV3.I&refer=patrick.net
Peak Oil Digest ending 7th February 2008
 
 
 Peak Oil and mainstream media
XXXXX   The great fuel folly      http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2252581,00.html
Russian economy succumbs to the oil curse     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/02/04/ccview104.xml
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Is the UK ready for an oil shortage?        http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2008/01/30/129667/is-the-uk-ready-for-an-oil-shortage.html
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future Of Our Cars – Part 2       http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2465&Itemid=35
Are you keeping an eye on oil supplies?     http://blog.pennlive.com/secondopinions/2008/01/are_you_keeping_an_eye_on_oil.html
‘Dean of Oil Analysts’ Maxwell (Part 1 of 4):
Oil Shortages Start in 2010; Peak Oil Hits 2012-2015      http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=819
Corporations Uber Alles on Peak Oil (Video)    http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/peakoil.html
Peak oil: Will we see it coming?      http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=59042&sid=5&fid=1
Kunstler Lecture (audio    http://www.ecoshock.org/
PEAK OIL Is It Real? When Might It Occur?    http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
Revamped ODAC newsletter      http://odac-info.org/newsletter-issue/odac-news-friday-1st-february-2008/
Peak Oil Review -- February 4th, 2008       http://www.energybulletin.net/39867.html
Shell's Van Der Veer Gets Refreshingly Honest   http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1241818/shells_van_der_veer_gets_refreshingly_honest/
As Oil Majors Chime In, the Reality of Peak Oil Lurches Closer    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/575837/as_oil_majors_chime_in_the_reality.html
Price of Oil Doesn’t Appear to be Affecting Worldwide Demand      http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/price-of-oil-2/2008/02/06/
Wager Challenges CERA Oil Supply Prediction       http://orange.advfn.com/news_Wager-Challenges-CERA-Oil-Supply-Prediction_24606648.html
Oil resources at stake in Chad conflict      http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hqTEfyeiI62hocdVIuKkf9PYYsEQ
Group bets $100,000 against CERA supply forecast      http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=312&Itemid=91
CERA's productive capacity ruse       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=314&Itemid=91
Minnesota State Legislators Meet To Discuss Oil Reserves Drying Up       http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/15294576.html
World oil supply may have already peaked       http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3193
Science 1101 Part 1: The Science of Oil and Peak Oil       http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3586
Why the Saudis aren't lifting a finger to ease oil prices       http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0206/p09s01-coop.html
Energy Prices, Inflation and Denial     http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3584
Freezing in the dark      http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=70
World oil supply may have already peaked      http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3193
Consequences of peak oil
Getting ready for the end of oil      http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/02/column_getting_ready_for_the_e.html
 
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
The San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force explores life after fossil fuels -
an era that may be coming sooner than most people think       http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5549&catid=4
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
The Slow Life Picks Up Speed       http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/garden/31slow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Peak Oil and population
XXXXX    Are we there yet Pa? Nine Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned       http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12647
Peak Oil and money
Fragile Dollar Hegemony: Iran's Oil Bourse could Topple the Dollar      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7998
Global and National recessionary trends
Fannie Mae, A Ticking Time Bomb       http://greatdepression2006.blogspot.com/2008/02/fannie-mae-ticking-time-bomb.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       Emergency: intensive care needed       http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article3321789.ece
'Euros Accepted' Signs Popping Up in New York City       http://www.cnbc.com/id/23031776
10m 'may default on debt by end of year'    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/06/ndebt106.xml
Recession or Lent? Whatever You Call It, It's Started       http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120224668849145153.html?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo&ref=patrick.net
‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY - Parts 1 and 2     http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Troubled borrowers are walking away from their houses        http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/06/real_estate/walking_away/index.htm?ref=patrick.net
Sold a Nightmare       http://www.charlotte.com/foreclosure/story/55062.html?ref=patrick.net
Peak Oil Digest ending 31st January 2008
 
Peak Oil and mainstream media
We'll Begin To Run Out of Oil Within 7 Years      http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32789/We-ll-begin-to-run-out-of-oil-within-7-years
In a World Short
Of Oil, Provisions
Must Be Made       http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120128939885117541-KT4tYUOT6bqMbrv__l64WsX1isw_20080225.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
Energy: Centre of power is on the move       http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49d8d9ce-c7c1-11dc-a0b4-0000779fd2ac.html
Prius Designer Says Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction         http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aoCSD7m5zHhA&refer=home
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/wef/article3248484.ece
Energy: Centre of power is on the move     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49d8d9ce-c7c1-11dc-a0b4-0000779fd2ac.html
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Mideast oil earnings could triple over next 14 years    http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7251468
Wider Troubles Trickle Down to Oil Sector       http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/business/worldbusiness/24oil.html?_r=1&ref=worldbusiness&oref=slogin
XXXXX     Shell CEO Peak Policy      http://www.peakoil.com/post587712.html#587712
U.S. recession could drag oil to $70 - Petroleum Secretary       http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-31557820080123?rpc=401&
Prius Designer Says Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aoCSD7m5zHhA&refer=home
XXXXX  Peak everything economics, or, what do you call this mess?      http://www.energybulletin.net/39472.html
 Peak Oil Passnotes: Stagflation Beckons      http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=39846
Oil prices: OPEC's high wire act     http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/25/news/international/opec/index.htm
Big consumers share concern over oil price     http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKL2537911320080125?rpc=401&
The Gospel According to Matthew       http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/feature2.php
Sneak Peak       http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/webextra4.php
Adjustments will be needed as oil supplies dwindle       http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=324745&z=12
Experts warn SA could face ‘huge’ liquid fuel shortage      http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=125161
Record power shortage hits China      http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSPEK8411420080123
In oil-rich Alaska, an energy crunch        http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0123/p03s03-usgn.html
Oil Company-Peak Cheap Oil Year 2015      http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/25/34918
XXXXX         A $10,000 bet on peak oil    http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columnists/jeff_sanford/article.jsp?content=20080125_144737_464  
XXXXX      Shell Admits Cheap Oil Is Running Out        http://www.usnews.com/blogs/beyond-the-barrel/2008/1/25/shell-admits-cheap-oil-is-running-out.html
Mexico's Cantarell Dec oil output hits 2007 low        http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2638783120080126?rpc=401&
Elites love to pig out on energy       http://www.thestar.com/article/296075
OPEC To Keep Output Level At Feb Meeting - Gulf Delegate        http://news.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/newsstory.aspx?selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&cpath=20080127%5cACQDJON200801270304DOWJONESDJONLINE000219.htm
Future of Venezuelan oil company will have ripple effects far and wide           http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=565234004414300312
US Petroleum Supply, Ethanol, and State of the Industry - API       http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3531
Fuel crisis looms by 2015     http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23118018-3102,00.html
XXXXX       Shell executive on peak oil, oil prospects           http://www.shell.com/static/nl-nl/downloads/venster_2008/venster_jan_feb_2008.pdf
Matt Simmons’ Recent Peak Oil Analysis         http://www.energyinvestmentstrategies.com/2008/01/27/matt-simmons-recent-peak-oil-analysis/
Shell sparks fears over oil reserves       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/29/cnshell129.xml
Money, Oil and Image     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlXKVj0Q0c
Powering Civilization to 2050           http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3540
Investment Guru Jim Rogers: ‘It Doesn’t Look Like $90 to $100’ Will Be High Enough to Slow Oil Demand (Part 1 of 3)     http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=801
Triple digit oil price regardless of peak (Audio)       http://globalpublicmedia.com/horsnell_oil_price
Peak Oil Review - January 28th, 2008         http://www.energybulletin.net/39623.html
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study  http://www.energybulletin.net/39620.html
High Oil Prices Boost Energy Efficiency - Report        http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46675/story.htm
The peak oil crisis: The future of our cars    http://www.energybulletin.net/39720.html
Former CEO of Talisman Energy: Peak oil is 'here or hereabouts'     http://www.energybulletin.net/39656.html
Indonesia urged to promote low-carbon economy       http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20080130.H04&irec=6
The Sierra Club solution       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307&Itemid=91
 
Peak oil is bunkum
    
Plenty of oil remains, Exxon manager says      http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19231261&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512504&rfi=6
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX   The peak oil crisis: The future of cars – part 1       http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2430&Itemid=35
Will Peak Oil Drive Relocalization?       http://www.jeffvail.net/2008/01/will-peak-oil-drive-relocalization.html
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Daniel Lerch on Post Carbon Cities     http://globalpublicmedia.com/lerch_reality_report
Is the desire to relocalize merely aesthetic?      http://www.energybulletin.net/39691.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Why Is this Apocalypse Different than All Other Apocalypses?       http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/?p=2542
Peak Oil and population
Population growth is a threat. But it pales against the greed of the rich         http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2248614,00.html
The truth everyone knows, but no one says     http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/17/18180/853
Laws Relating to Sustainability        http://www.design-site.net/bart1mag.htm
Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human Numbers      http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/limit.htm
Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability      http://dieoff.org/page110.htm
Abortion and the Earth       http://www.energybulletin.net/39654.html
Peak Oil and money
XXXXX      Chavez: Pull Reserves From US       http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/ap/2008/01/26/chavez-pull-reserves-from-us
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
Bbc News: Deal reached on US economic plan       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7206412.stm
Times: We must name our price        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article3200442.ece
The UK Economy: It's Not All Doom and Gloom      http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/theukeconomyitsnotalldoomandgloom0736.html
Spectator: Not so good       http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/464806/not-so-good.thtml
CNN Money: Wall Street's money machine breaks down         http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/11/26/101232838/index.htm
For those too young to remember, this is what a recession looks like       http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2245165,00.html
Global Recession Risk Grows as U.S. `Collateral Damage' Spreads     http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXcxvZBhKLM4&refer=worldwide
US recession will dwarf dotcom crash      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/01/28/ccusecon128.xml&ref=patrick.net
More than 1m people could lose homes in credit crunch, warns City watchdog            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511084&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
Credit Default Swaps: how to spot the riskiest banks            http://www.moneyweek.com/file/41437/credit-default-swaps-how-to-spot-the-riskiest-banks.html
Economic shock hits China          http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23130208-601,00.html
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Bad borrowers send rest of us to poorhouse      http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1068581&ref=patrick.net
Credit crunch threatens financial obesity      http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/391264.html?ref=patrick.net
Housing Slump Starts to Hit Stronger Cities    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120111917285710781.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_pj&ref=patrick.net
Existing House Sales Fall, Prices Drop      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arNZzN9Mq7Tw&refer=patrick.net
US home sales fall at record pace       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7213693.stm
 
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 24th January 2008
 Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
'International Oil Companies Are the Real Dinosaurs'      http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,529564,00.html
U.S energy sec urges OPEC to raise output at meeting           http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080119/bs_nm/opec_bodman_dc_2;_ylt=ArP_0mWMvqcH3dXgxyVGsI2AsnsA
XXXXX      Looking Ahead: Exploring “What If” in the Oil and Gas Industry       http://www.ey.com/Global/assets.nsf/International/Industry_Oil_and_Gas_ExploringWhatIf/$file/Industry_Oil_and_Gas_ExploringWhatIf.pdf
CERA v. peak oil    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080117.WBwenergyblog061320080117113730/WBStory/WBwenergyblog0613
Bush acknowledges peak oil       http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/1/17/92615/1863
Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand?          http://www.energybulletin.net/39308.html
Pakistan eyes free oil from Saudi             http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/international/pak-eyes-free-oil-from-saudi.aspx
Shell exec: Oil Demand, the Climate and the Energy Ladder            http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/19interview.html
Peak Oil Passnotes: CERA's Silly Season       http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=39655
Whether or not Peak Oil Imminent, Bush’s Allusion to it heightens chance of ‘Peak Shock’ on Wall Street       http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=765
Tough sledding on other side of peak oil            http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080120/FEATURES05/801200309/1014/FEATURES05
EU energy chief warns about 'peak oil'              http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy/eu-energy-chief-warns-peak-oil/article-169582
Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras says it discovered giant gas reserve        http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/21/america/LA-FIN-Brazil-Petrobras-Gas-Reserve.php
Mexico oil output, exports wane in 2007             http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2141188720080121?rpc=401&
The end of cheap oil: Are you ready?       http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/?article_id=1698
South Africa: Tourists stranded on Table Mountain     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22787229/
CERA’s depletion study: the “good news” about running up the down escalator          http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=301&Itemid=91
Peak Oil Review - January 21st, 2008            http://www.energybulletin.net/39358.html
New Fields May Offset Oil Drop           http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120054248700897011.html?mod=MKTW
The Fallacy of Reversibility:
Why Peak Oil Actually Helps Industrial Agriculture         http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3481
OPEC Secretary-General : 'International oil companies are the real dinosaurs'          http://www.petroleumworld.com/storyt08012102.htm
XXXXX      Is Peak Oil the Best Way of Looking At This… Might ‘Trough Oil’ Be More Useful?          http://transitionculture.org/2008/01/21/is-peak-oil-the-best-way-of-looking-at-this-might-trough-oil-be-more-useful/
"How to Boil a Frog" on Peak Oil         http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/peakoil.html
 
Peak oil is bunkum
    
World not running out of oil, say experts    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3207311.ece
CERA says global 4.5% decline rate means no near-term peak      http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080117005242&newsLang=en
New Fields May Offset Oil Drop         http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120054248700897011.html?mod=MKTW
Oil peak fears are false, study says          http://www.fundstrategy.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=157103&d=11&h=312&f=311
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX       Why Is this Apocalypse Different than All Other Apocalypses:
Making the Case for Peak Oil and Climate Change Now       http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-is-this-apocalypse-different-than.html
What A Difference Two Years Makes        http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3513
How the coming home heating crisis could threaten the grid       http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-coming-home-heating-crisis-could.html
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
XXXXX       Tranforming communities through locally grown food       http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/288/
Kunstler and Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues       http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2008-01-16T16_45_54-08_00
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Oil Demand, the Climate and the Energy Ladder       http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/19interview.html?_r=1&ex=1358398800&en=705dcd37ba10ebc3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=login
XXXXX     The evil twins      http://www.energybulletin.net/39371.html
Peak Oil and population
Overpopulation and peak oil: The perfect storm          http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/01/18/opinion/commentary/doc479033ed52bb4948686565.txt
Peak Oil and Farming
An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories       http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?hp
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
Bloomberg: Sinking Sterling Is Catching Dollar's Disease       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_sesit&sid=a_ZI7aTk7VBw
MoneyWeek: Time to panic - the Fed is asking politicians for help       http://www.moneyweek.com/file/40840/time-to-panic---the-fed-is-asking-politicians-for-help.html
MoneyWeek: Credit squeeze will get worse in 2008      http://www.moneyweek.com/file/40789/credit-squeeze-will-get-worse-in-2008.html
Times: Pension plans derailed by the property slump        
Economist: Finding default: What isn't known about bad debts          http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10534902
Pension plans derailed by the property slump           http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/pensions/article3215246.ece
Inflationists vs. Deflationists: Who's Right?           http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/60760-inflationists-vs-deflationists-who-s-right?source=patrick.net
If Recession Comes, It Likely Will Hit Hard     http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120086867005203883.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news&ref=patrick.net
Independent: Nationwide becomes the latest lender to raise mortgage rates           http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3359118.ece
XXXXX    Will The Cure Be Worse Than The Disease?: Fortun/CNNMoney         http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/22/news/economy/cureupdate.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008012211
XXXXX        The worst market crisis in 60 years         http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html
BBC: Council tax 'set to rise by 4%        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7204745.stm
XXXXX     The Coming Financial Collapse of America (and Why Today's Market Bloodbath is Only a Small Taste of Things to Come...)     http://www.newstarget.com/022528.html
 
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Wealthy may be next in line in home crisis       http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/us_nm/usa_housing_prime_dc?ref=patrick.net
Median house price tumbles 15% in California          http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8U7RVFO0.htm?ref=patrick.net
Baby boom and bust        http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10534992&ref=patrick.net
The big stinking steaming heap of debt    http://www.republic-news.org/archive/180-repub/180_eurchuk.html?ref=patrick.net
Housing crashes through floor     http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?rssFeed=news;id=27826&seenIt=1&ref=patrick.net
It's Never Been This Bad Before       http://greatdepression2006.blogspot.com/2008/01/its-never-been-this-bad-before-reprint.html?ref=patrick.net
California home foreclosures soar          http://centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=7612&ref=patrick.net
 
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 17th January 2008
 
 Peak Oil and mainstream media
XXXXX      Economist: Stepping beyond subprime      http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10499251
XXXXX   Challenging the myths of energy security     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40c2f8aa-bf93-11dc-8052-0000779fd2ac.html
XXXXX     UK: Food prices are accelerating at their fastest rate since records began      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=E3MOHXCOEQLSDQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/15/nfood115.xml
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Are we heading for Peak Coal?       http://www.moneyweek.com/file/40638/are-we-heading-for-peak-coal.html
XXXXX           The Peak Oil Crisis: We Are Starting To Dim             http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2395&Itemid=35
Energy experts to discuss threats to future          http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=12&a=323717
High oil prices? You ain’t seen nothing yet      http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/416233463.shtml
Underwater oil discovery to transform Brazil into a major exporter    http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/business/oil.php
The future of oil? America's not in the driver's seat     http://tinyurl.com/3btn2v
XXXXX     Just how close to Peak Oil are we?       http://www.aspousa.org/proceedings/houston/presentations/Chris%20Skrebowski%20megaprojects.pdf
Venezuelan oil reserves will be world's largest by 2009      http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?template=&whichstory=n&id=42699
XXXXX      The Pros and Cons of 8 Green Fuels      http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/your-money/2008/01/11/the-pros-and-cons-of-8-green-fuels.html
China imports record 163 mln tons of crude oil in 2007      http://mathaba.net/rss/?x=577707
Rising development costs push up oil futures curve       http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1128994320080111
Oil and the looming threat to Iraq         http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10181688.html
Oil Crisis As Barrels Go Missing, According to Audit         http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2008/01/oil-crisis-as-b.html
More credit crisis write-downs and writs       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/14/cnwrits114.xml&ref=patrick.net
The Spillover Effect of $100 Oil      http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2008/db2008018_523125.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing
XXXXX      Kunstler: Disarray      http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/01/disarray.html
Peak Oil Review - January 14th, 2008     http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296&Itemid=91
General Motors CEO: oil has peaked      http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bmotoringb-gm-concedes-oil-has-peaked-and-electric-is-the-future/2008/01/14/1200159362708.html
As Bush, King Talk Oil, Saudis Gain In US Market         http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=190572
Prospects for China         http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=91
Quebec group: Peak oil, peak phosphorus and sustainability            http://www.greb.ca/publications.htm
Indonesia: No Longer an Oil Exporter          http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=757
XXXXX      Totally different          http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10496503
Analyst calls oil at $100/barrel "pretty cheap"          http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1019749220080110
Matt Simmons: Peak oil & beyond         http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/casey/2008/0109.html
Energy Debate in Switzerland         http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3494
Global Oil shortage is looming large...           http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=4837
Peak oil is bunkum     
World oil demand to peak before supply - BP         http://uk.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUKN1664743320080116?rpc=401&
Consequences of Peak Oil
The Trouble With Peak Oil           http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff192.html
Economic Collapse and Global Ecology      http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm
XXXXX    Time's up for petrol cars, says GM chief    http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/times-up-for-petrol-cars-says-gm-chief/2008/01/14/1200159363527.html
XXXXX     The dislodging of another leg from Western primacy      http://oilandglory.com/2008/01/dislodging-of-another-leg-from-western.html
 
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
The church model for environmental groups            http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2008/01/church-model-for-environmental-groups.html
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence      
Home energy use gets a 'smackdown' on reality TV      http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0109/p14s04-sten.html
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies            http://transitionculture.org/2008/01/14/the-slow-money-revolution/
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd           http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3331803.ece
XXXXX         Toward A Post-Oil Community             http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild050108.htm
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?          http://globalpublicmedia.com/peak_moment_what_can_one_person_do
 
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Greenland opens to oil firms; melting ice unlocks reserves       http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=BUSINESS&ID=565227424523288595
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX           Deflation Economic Time-bomb As US Moves Towards Recession        http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3333.html
Inside Housing: Associations poised to snap up hard-to-sell homes from private builders      http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article/?id=1449732
Times Online: Recession fears as manufacturing drops    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3171212.ece
Oil, not China, sends trade deficit higher      http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5446637.html
Peak Oil Passnotes: The Bears Are Back in Town      http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=39442
Odds of Recession Seen Rising       http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119990867859778525.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
Danish shipper to lay off 3,000    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shipping9jan09,1,2453648.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=2&cset=true
Fall in 'over-inflated' house prices inevitable      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C20HIJWB0JK5RQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nhomes113.xml
Is it the end for shopping fever?      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/13/retail.creditcrunch
Warning lights      http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10498907
Engine of the British economy begins to slow          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RAPQZCND3EV1HQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/01/13/ccjobs113.xml
Washington Post: It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since         http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120402186_pf.html
FT: Many new mortgages dubbed subprime            http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e3cf0dca-c09e-11dc-b0b7-0000779fd2ac.html
BBC News: US inflation reaches 17-year high       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7191970.stm
As US baby boomers retire, house markets will hurthttp://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-01-15-boomer-real-estate_N.htm?ref=patrick.net
The Federal Reserve Has Failed Us          http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/59887-the-federal-reserve-has-failed-us?ref=patrick.net
Shiller on New York: We're Ancient Rome, Right Before the Fall          http://www.observer.com/2008/shiller-new-york-we-re-ancient-rome-right-fall?ref=patrick.net
Peak Capitalism? A Commentary         http://www.dailyscare.com/2818/peak-capitalism-a-commentary
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
44% Decline in SF Bay Area Suburb    http://www.patrick.net/housing/contrib/brentwood.html
More Housing Horrors Across The Pond          http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investing/investing-strategy/2008/01/16/more-housing-horrors-across-the-pond.aspx
Huge Discounts in California            http://patrick.net/housing/contrib/discounts.html
Peak Oil Digest ending 10th January 2008
Peak Oil and mainstream media
XXXXX    Over a barrel        http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/paul_roberts/2008/01/over_a_barrel2.html
XXXXX    Totally different      http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10496503


Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
The peak oil debate and oil companies     http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2485&Itemid=2
XXXXX          Peak Oil and the Financial Markets: A Forecast for 2008          http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3382
Cairn India's biggest field just got 25% bigger                  http://business.scotsman.com/business/Cairn-India39s-biggest-field-just.3652293.jp
XXXXX    The Oil Drum: The Failure of Networked Systems       http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3377
Where Did Uganda's Oil Reserves Go?        http://allafrica.com/stories/200801040813.html
IEA Chief Says Oil May Rise to $150 on China Demand       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=adTrIStEuO9M&refer=commodities
The peak oil debate and oil companies       http://www.ome.org/sidosoft/pdf/GEM2%20Final%20_12-12-2007_.pdf
Financial Markets and Economic Themes Remain The Same for 2008              http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3305
Pdvsa cuts payment time for foreign clients          http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/01/09/en_eco_art_pdvsa-cuts-payment-t_09A1292963.shtml
World Bank: Oil prices to fall gradually            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22572867/
XXXXX       Peak oil confusion             http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=91
Beyond the Barrel
The Oil Drum: $100 a Barrel Quickens the Beat       http://www.usnews.com/blogs/beyond-the-barrel/2008/1/7/the-oil-drum-100-a-barrel-quickens-the-beat.html
Richard Heinberg on The Reality Report         http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinberg_on_the_reality_report
OPEC Should Increase Output to Rebuild Inventories, Lehman Says    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aP8WMSE0aS48&refer=energy
Specter of energy rationing looms heavily over Brazil     http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12366&formato=HTML
The Long Emergency: Orlov and Kunstler     http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-01-09T14_54_16-08_00
Tough to pump more oil, even at $100      http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7210632
Peak oil is bunkum     
XXXXX       Another Nail in the Coffin of the Case Against Peak Oil     http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/Another%20Nail%20in%20the%20Coffin.pdf
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
How Peak Oil Changed My Life      http://valuesystem.livejournal.com/
 
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence      
Survival tools — farming, stories, poetry, writing, and leaning      http://www.energybulletin.net/38638.html
The services we seek      http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/01/services-we-seek.html
Peak oil and healthcare/medecine
Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change        http://www.energybulletin.net/38642.html
 
Peak Oil and money
Who's Afraid of Mideast Money?     Business Week
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
FT: The coming decline in UK house prices: how large and how helpful?      http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/
FT: An Ottoman warning for indebted America     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6667a18a-b888-11dc-893b-0000779fd2ac.html
Telegraph: Cost of home loan highest in seven years              http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/07/nrates107.xml
Telegraph: Interest rates have been hijacked by politics        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=1VD3O0YIT02QPQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2008/01/06/ccliam106.xml&page=1
US Job Woes Deepen Economic Anxiety       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010401564.html?referrer=emailarticle&ref=patrick.net
Central Banks Dance in Denial on Stagflation       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_sesit&sid=aDp8nnhLXdpg
    
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis      http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/business/story.html?id=44dce79f-7ac7-4e60-b33b-af5215005ca9&k=78594&ref=patrick.net 
     Peak Oil Digest ending 3rd January 2008 

Peak Oil and mainstream media
XXXXX      The Year in Review: The planet      http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3287372.ece
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
The Peak Oil Crisis: Storm of the Century        http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2290&Itemid=35
China a big, but not only, contributor to record oil prices: analysts    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/320423/1/.html
The peak oil crisis: diesel    http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2322&Itemid=35
OPEC Review:Group Could Fail To Meet World Oil Demand By 2037    http://news.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/newsstory.aspx?selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&cpath=20080102%5cACQDJON200801020842DOWJONESDJONLINE000427.htm
Woes mount for Mexico's state oil titan     http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pemex2jan02,1,2900835.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=7&cset=true
What Is Peak Oil?      http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=290&Itemid=91
XXXXX    Peak oil theories           http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/080102/fto010220080828030328.html?.v=1
ASPO Newsletter - Jan 08       http://www.aspo-ireland.org/contentFiles/newsletterPDFs/newsletter85_200801.pdf
What's new at the tar sands?    http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=91
XXXXX         Charlie Hall's Balloon Graph    http://www.scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=1305
Pemex Misses Oil Goal as November Output Drops 8.2%       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=apnRfKCQRzr8&refer=news
Daddy, will the lights be on at Christmas?      http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3401
UK: Motorists urged not to panic buy fuel     http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Dec%202007%2008%3A20%3A48%3A123
Russia likely to delay oil pipeline to China      http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Oil_and_Gas/10176705.html
XXXXX        Russia’s Big Energy Secret     http://www.newsweek.com/id/81557
Fewer divers put oil industry deep in crisis     http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1140793
Strategic diesel stocks mostly consumed: Crisis forces purchase at higher rates      http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/19/top1.htm
Little Surprise: Oil Prices Will Rise      http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2007/12/22/the-wall-street-journal-little-surprise-oil-prices-will-rise-forecasts-often-low-see-gas-increase-of-10/
Charlie Hall's Balloon Graph     http://scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=1305
The peak oil crisis: issues      http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2255&Itemid=35
A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall on Oil Prices (Probably)      http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=712
$100 Oil: It’s a New Beginning      http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=711
Could OPEC drop dollar for euro?       http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTkxNDk0NzEx
Another wild ride in 2008    http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=281&Itemid=91
AEI panel discusses National Petroleum Council report on availability of fossil fuels       http://www.energybulletin.net/38482.html
The Oil Drum: Oil prices or subprime losses?   http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3422#more
Market Oracle: Crude Oil Forecast 2008 to Hit $150 a Barrel       http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3198.html
BP to review plans for Alaska after big tax increase       http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/27/business/bp.php
Top 10 oil industry stories of the year: the results are in       http://www.platts.com/weblog/oilblog/2007/12/the_top_10_the_results_are_in.html
XXXXX         The Decoupling of Oil and Gas Prices       http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-is-value-of-energy-decoupling-of.html
XXXXX      My Top 10 Energy Stories of 2007      http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3424
Official: Saudi-Japanese energy relationship is enormously important     http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093179173
Busting the Hubbert Myths Part I      Busting the Hubbert Myths Part I
The peak oil crisis: storm of the century     http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2290&Itemid=35
Pakistan: Oil stocks deplete as economic shutdown continues     http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=11976
2008, a Year of Petroleum Exuberance      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701595.html
Italy to Raise Power Rates 3.8%, Gas Prices 3.4% Next Month      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aWINaf5vzrqY&refer=europe
XXXXX  Forecast for 2008     http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/12/forecast-for-20.html
Cost of crude oil ends year 57 percent higher    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12400801/
Iran struggles to meet gas demand           http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B5A1FBD2-7CB4-410D-BFBC-853023614759.htm
South Korea sees 2008 energy imports up 15.4 pct          http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKSEO14131620080102
Venezuelan Oil Industry Shrinks By 5.3 Percent In 2007            http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009586978
Peak Oil Review - December 31st, 2007           http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=91
Oil, at $100, seen heading even higher            http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7192504
Consequences of peak oil
Life after peak oil        http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/585637.html
XXXXX       Peak Oil And Dunbar's Number    http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild291207.htm
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence      
XXXXX      The Post-Oil Economy: After The Techno-Fix      http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild221207.htm
Bags packed for doomsday      http://www.stuff.co.nz/4323956a19716.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
NASA research scientist on peak oil and climate change        http://globalpublicmedia.com/nasa_peakoil_climate
XXXXX      A Christmas Present - Something You Can Do For Your Kids       http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson281207.htm
Peak Oil and population
All About: Cities and energy consumption      http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/31/eco.cities/
XXXXX        What’s Your Consumption Factor?        http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html?_r=3&ref=opinio&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Peak Oil and Farming
XXXXX       Agriculture: closing the circle      http://www.energybulletin.net/38481.html
Farm groups say energy prices, not ethanol, driving food costs higher    http://westernfarmpress.com/news/122707-energy-prices/
Why the era of cheap food is over                        http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071231/wl_csm/o2008food_1
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX      Big-ticket punters see fall ahead for housebuilders      http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article3085193.ece
The Post-Oil Economy: After The Techno-Fix
XXXXX       Hostility to the notion of limits to growth     http://www.eurotrib.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/12/20/105646/94
Biggest Homebuilder Writedowns Are Yet to Come     http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=avYbXq3sIzUA&refer=patrick.net
Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park'    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/12/23/cccrisis123.xml&ref=patrick.net
Unpaid credit cards bedevil Americans      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071223/ap_on_bi_ge/credit_card_crunch?ref=patrick.net
FT: UK jobs outlook worst for a decade           http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/222893b8-b4c2-11dc-990a-0000779fd2ac.html
XXXXX     The New York Times: Credit Crisis? Just Wait for a Replay       http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/business/28norris.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park'      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HFJAOX5E4NR3FQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2007/12/23/cccrisis123.xml&page=1
The Diminishing Demand For Dollars (Part I)    http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4235.shtml
The Debt Crisis, Where It’s Least Expected      http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30loan.html?ref=business
Top economist says America could plunge into recession        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3111659.ece
Defaults moving beyond sub-prime        http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-optionarm28dec28,0,4900304.story?page=1&coll=patrick.net
Grim Brown warns of a bleak year for Britain      http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2233303,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Recession question to mark 2008      http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071230/markets_stocks.html?.v=1
Wall Street braces itself for more sub-prime misery        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article3111820.ece
From the sub-prime to the ridiculous: how $100bn vanished      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/31/subprimecrisis.creditcrunch
FT: Correction in property on its way         http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/784122d6-b8d4-11dc-893b-0000779fd2ac.html
Independent: Broke Britain: millions face struggle to stay afloat as financial crisis hits home      http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3300968.ece
Things That "Can't" Happen            http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/12/things-that-cant-happen.html?ref=patrick.net
How they got housing wrong           http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/28/news/economy/housing_forecasts/index.htm?postversion=2007122811
Scotsman: A new morality needed      http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/A-new-year-and-a.3635970.jp
XXXXX    Counterparty Risk and the Subprime Fiasco      http://seekingalpha.com/article/58780-counterparty-risk-and-the-subprime-fiasco?ref=patrick.net
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Home Price Decline Hits New Record       http://seekingalpha.com/article/58401-home-price-decline-hits-new-record?source=i_email&ref=patrick.net
House Prices Post Record Decline      http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/dec2007/pi20071226_076186.htm?ref=patrick.net
Sales of New US Homes Worse Than Expected     http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/
Sales and house prices in free fall        http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Economy.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX              Our (The US)Economy’s Boiler Room           http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4618.0.101.0&ref=patrick.net
Bad Housing Predictions of 2007           http://seekingalpha.com/article/58747-bad-housing-predictions-of-2007?source=patrick.net
XXXXX    Brain-Dead Predictions about Housing      http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan08/housing-predictions.html?ref=patrick.net
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 20th December  2007 
 
Peak Oil in the World's mainstream media
XXXXX    Are commodities a bubble ready to burst?        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2007/12/16/ccmines216.xml
XXXXX    Plenty of oil left in the global tank      http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3055813.ece
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Nigeria Seeks Bigger Slice of Oil Profits      http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=53965
Namibia: Fuel Price Hike Casts Shadow On Production    http://allafrica.com/stories/200712140355.html
XXXXX         British Gas warns of big price rises in the pipeline       http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3253154.ece
India calls for efficient use of energy to meet growing demand       http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0712148173192220.htm
The peak oil crisis: the NY Times drops the first shoe      http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2221&Itemid=35
Peak Oil Passnotes: On the Cusp      http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=38776
?he Real World: Global energy transformed      http://www.metimes.com/International/2007/12/14/he_real_world_global_energy_transformed/8288/
UAE says Gulf revaluations “still an option”       http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/business/2007/December/business_December399.xml&section=business&col=
Rosneft to increase oil production in 2007 by 25% to 100 mln tons       http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071217/92864977.html
UK: Gas costs threatens to increase fuel poverty        http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2007/12/17/cost-of-gas-threatens-to-increase-fuel-poverty-91466-20258513/
China agrees 38 pct increase in Saudi oil imports       http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKPEK13499320071217
XXXXX     Norwegian Continental Shelf oil output declining faster than previously thought   http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=6449427&action=article
Peak Oil Review - December 17th, 2007      http://www.energybulletin.net/38400.html
Peak Oil and Portfolio Prudence       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=91
Where have all the oil optimists gone          http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=4317
Michael J. Economides - $100 Oil: It’s a New Beginning             http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=711
Michael Lynch: A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall on Oil Prices (Probably)         http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=712
Could OPEC drop dollar for euro?          http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTkxNDk0NzEx
$3 gas: America's braking point        http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/18/news/economy/gas_demand/index.htm
XXXXX    The limits to reserves growth            http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=101
Angola oil exports to fall, output below OPEC target          http://africa.reuters.com/country/AO/news/usnL18572985.html
China's Southwest Hit by Fuel Crunch           http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hktUFUeg6FurVTJrVfC5yheXlEvQD8TJQC7O0
The Time for Energy Action is NOW… not “decades away!”         http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=280&Itemid=140
Last Major Field Goes Online: How Long Will Siberia's Gas Last?         http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,524140,00.html
AEI panel discusses National Petroleum Council report on availability of fossil fuels           http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/713
How much to be paid to get more oil in 2008                http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=4319
Crude-Oil Prices Seen Surging          http://online.barrons.com/article/SB119795147292236135.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
Peak Oil - Accurately Predicting Oil Prices & The Value of Oil           http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2452&Itemid=2
Russia's oil trade shuns Estonian ports             http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7149573.stm
XXXXX    The Finance Round-Up: December 19th 2007     http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3404
Peak Oil Crisis: Issues      Falls Church News-Press
XXXXX        The Dreaded ‘R’ Word     http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2264&Itemid=35
One in Five Expect to Borrow to Heat Homes This Winter     http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/104038/One-in-Five-Expect-to-Borrow-to-Heat-Homes-This-Winter
Alaska oil spill may signal wider problems        http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1929681420071219?rpc=401&
XXXXX       Oilfield Hacks and Future Oil Prices     http://seekingalpha.com/article/57818-oilfield-hacks-and-future-oil-prices
Another wild ride in 2008     http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=281&Itemid=91
Peak oil is bunkum
XXXXX    Non Peak Oil Update      http://www.lewrockwell.com/giles/giles18.html
XXXXX    Plenty of oil left in the global tank      http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3055813.ece
XXXXX     The Coming Oil Crash      http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/2007/12/17/Why-Oil-Prices-Will-Drop
`Peak Oil’ Theory Flawed: State-Run Oil Firm        http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/12/123_15687.html
Panic the big threat to planet         http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22938759-7583,00.html
Brazil's Not Peaking         http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-21688641.htm
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
XXXXX      Dealing With Peak Oil Depression    http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild171207.htm
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX       Peak Oil reporting and internet advertising - Big Oil enters the debate      http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2149/2/
XXXXX      Sustainable holidayshttp://www.mtshastanews.com/articles/2007/12/19/news/area_news/06sustain_holidays.txt
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
How to Survive Peak Oil           http://www.ehow.com/how_2158225_survive-peak-oil.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
 
Bags Packed for Doomsday       http://www.stuff.co.nz/4323956a19716.html
Peak Oil and population
XXXXX      The Malthusian energy-trap     http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=18462
Peak Oil and money
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=502079&in_page_id=1770
Peak Oil and Farming
XXXXX      Growing Food When The Oil Runs out     http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild121207.htm
XXXXX    Agriculture: the price of adaptation       http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/12/agriculture-price-of-transition.html
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX  XXXXX   Counting on trouble      http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/deborah_hargreaves/2007/12/as_a_longstanding_financial_re.html
XXXXX          Personal debt exceeds gross domestic product for first time ever       http://www.moneyexpert.com/ContentArticle/None/Personal-debt-exceeds-gross-domestic-product-for-first-time-ever/Article.aspx?articleID=230&productTypeID=0
XXXXX         Credit crunch signals permanent shift in power         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/12/14/do1401.xml
Finance Round-Up: December 14th 2007        http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3368
Revealed: The reason why a £100,000-a-year ITN man was forced to sleep rough because of debts     
Fuels, food push euro zone inflation to six-year peak      http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7153111
XXXXX      ARM Freezer Plan Designed to Help Banks Not Homeowners           http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/782.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX      After the Money’s Gone      http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/opinion/14krugman.html?em&ex=1197867600&en=0b7dda0e508c22e5&ei=5087%0A
xxxxx        The Continuing Crisis: It's Not Over Yet       http://goldmoney.com/en/commentary.php?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       Failure Beyond Finance      http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/12/failure-beyond.html?ref=patrick.net
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
US foreclosures hit record high       http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C12%5C08%5Cstory_8-12-2007_pg5_34&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       The Mirage of the Mortgage Fix       http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/mortgage-fix-mirage.html
Foreclosures continue to soar        http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=7245&ref=patrick.net
U.S. Homebuilder Confidence Declines To All Time Low          http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009480951
XXXXX       HOUSING - SIMPLE AS THAT      http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/martenson/2007/1217.html
Inland Empire lot prices sliced in half        http://lansner.freedomblogging.com/2007/12/18/inland-empire-lot-prices-sliced-in-half?ref=patrick.net
US foreclosure filings up 68 pct in Nov      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_bi_ge/foreclosure_rates;_ylt=patrick.net
Fannie Mae: Systemic time bomb        http://wallstreetexaminer.com/blogs/ducalion/?p=139&ref=patrick.net
Peak Oil Digest ending 13th December  2007 
 
XXXXX     The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground         http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,2225383,00.html
Peak Oil and energy security
XXXXX    Peak Oil And The Vision In The Mirror      http://www.countercurrents.org/wissner081207.htm
XXXXX   Peak Oil paper presented to the World Bank       Peak Oil;  Myth or reality    http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/images/stories/papers/mamdouh_salameh_paper_for_world_bank.pdf
The Peak Oil Crisis: Decision at Abu Dhabi        http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2188&Itemid=35
XXXXX     US Senate Blocks Debate on Energy Plan Approved by House    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVJYO.r1LfUo&refer=worldwide
Protecting America’s Far-Flung Oil Supply         http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/171/documentid/3977/history/3,2360,656,171,3977
The Game-Playing Behind China’s Fuel Crisis       http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5523
Tax plan to extend life of North Sea oil fields      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2007/12/07/cnoil107.xml
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil theory?     http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/7273
In 2008, Investors Should Expect to be Buffeted by Oil Price Uncertainty - But One Fact Can’t be Denied       http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=601
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil     http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_340040035.html
The Peak Oil Crisis: Decision at Abu Dhabi       http://www.energybulletin.net/38229.html
XXXXX    Kenya: Outcry Over High Petrol Prices   http://allafrica.com/stories/200712071068.html
XXXXX      Iran stops accepting U.S. dollars for oil       http://en.rian.ru/world/20071208/91488137.html
China to import more oil to ease shortage       http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/10081506.htm
XXXXX   Oil-rich nations use more energy, cutting exports      http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/08/business/09oil.php?WT.mc_id=rssbusiness
GCC to consider revaluation soon      http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?ArticleId=182183&CategoryId=5
The Oil Industry's Future: An Illusory Platform     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-cray/the-oil-industrys-future_b_76180.html
Oil falls on U.S. warmth, economic worry       http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2007-12-10T205251Z_01_SP217792_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-MARKETS-OIL-COL.XML&archived=False
Trends Affecting Oil Price       http://www.minyanville.com/articles/crude-oil-copper-gasoline-petro-demand/index/a/15154
Peak oil: A problem that's not going away      http://peakoil.blogspot.com/2007/12/peak-oil-problem-that-not-going-away.html
Peak Oil Review - December 11th, 2007      http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=266&Itemid=91
The European Gas Market       http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3283
XXXXX        Crisis as oil stocks hit rock bottom     http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/11/top1.htm
ASPO Newsletter - December 2007       http://www.aspo-ireland.org/contentFiles/newsletterPDFs/newsletter84_200712.pdf
Henry Groppe: IEA to blame for $100 oil spike       http://www.energybulletin.net/38327.html
Need for Cross Party Commission on Peak Oil       http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0712/S00142.htm
Peak oil is bunkum
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory says Bernstein Research      http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=15622&t=1&c=33&cg=4
Consequences of peak oil
Italian truck strike stops fuel, food supplies         http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-12-11T190018Z_01_L11885125_RTRIDST_0_ITALY-STRIKE-UPDATE-2-PIX-TV.XML
Peak Oil And Musical Chairs     http://www.countercurrents.org/loux061207.htm
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels       http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2007-12-05T14_27_23-08_00
XXXXX     The garden of the future?      http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/06/ethicalliving.conservation
XXXXX     We would be fools to banish global business from the great climate battle      
Peak Oil and Climate Change
 
XXXXX       Peak Oil And Global Warming: Inextricably Linked     http://www.stpns.net/view_article.html?articleId=64549758634286984
XXXXX     Real Action on Climate Change     http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/real-action-on-climate-change/?ref=opinion
XXXXX     The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground         http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,2225383,00.html
Peak Oil and Farming
Food Summit studies the question: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?    http://www.agrinewsinteractive.com/fullstory.htm?ArticleID=8858&ShowSection=News
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120402186_pf.html
XXXXX     That old stagflation dilemma again       http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20071207/bs_ft/fto120720070258577207;_ylt=An1ltDv.7nXMBplVDBIrFfP2ULEF
XXXXX      Decoupling' Debunked as U.S. Collapse Infects World      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aUs1KMhofeRg&refer=economy
XXXXX     1991 here we come     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VGAJXIVQGOA5TQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/08/ndebt208.xml&page=2
XXXXX      The Telegraph: Decade of Debt delusion is ending        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PC0JYB0VJ3HZNQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/money/2007/12/11/ccom111.xml
XXXXX    Consumer pain looms with banks to hike credit cost      http:/business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/borrowing/article3031063.ece
XXXXX      The Telegraph: Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FOCT0FGLQQQWLQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2007/12/11/cnusa111.xml
Times: Hopes of more rate cuts from Bank hurt by rise in factory-gate inflation    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/industrials/article3031418.ece
XXXXX      The Unintended Consequences of the Housing Bubble Bursting        http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec07/unintended-consequences.html?ref=patrick.net
Economists Say Recession Risk Is Climbing      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119725543833319010.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
Telegraph: Market fears that Bank has 'lost control'       V
US banks reveal more debt losses      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7141615.stm
World banks in £50bn credit-crunch fight      http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=427505&in_page_id=3&ct=5
XXXXX       The Mirage of the Mortgage Fix       http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/mortgage-fix-mirage.html?ref=patrick.net
Spain's Sinking Property Market May Roil Europe        http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8YwtGtpNxSc&ref=patrick.net
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
US foreclosures hit record high       http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C12%5C08%5Cstory_8-12-2007_pg5_34&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       The Mirage of the Mortgage Fix       http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/mortgage-fix-mirage.html?ref=patrick.net
Foreclosures continue to soar        http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=7245&ref=patrick.netCity hosts meeting on fuel costs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7125380.stm
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 6th December  2007

Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security

IEA: oil demand has surpassed supply http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3331
The Peak Oil Crisis: Decision at Abu Dhabi http://www.energybulletin.net/38229.html
XXXXX Alternative Energy And The Pollyanna Principle http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild051207.htm
XXXXX Open letter to Kevin Rudd, Australia's new Prime Minister http://www.energybulletin.net/38063.html
OPEC Won't Boost Crude Output, Algeria's Khelil Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=auo5xq2Up...
It's time to face peak oil http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07336/838187-109.stm
Surfing the ultimate peak http://www.energybulletin.net/37959.html
XXXXX Survive Oil's Slide http://www.forbes.com/finance/2007/12/04/valero-suncor-opec-pf-ii-in_rh_...
XXXXX Peak Oil Review - December 3rd, 2007 http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=263&It...
Does the latest IEA number matter? http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3306
Several trends directing flow of capital into oil markets http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19077270&BRD=2288&PAG=46...
Natural resources: World likely to rely on Saudi oil in the future http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f40724fa-9f6c-11dc-8031-0000779fd2ac.html
Energy expert warns about peak oil http://c-ville.com/index.php?cat=141404064432695&ShowArticle_ID=11430312...
Of hierarchies, thresholds and the rising price of oil http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A648248
Peak Oil in the Australian media http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2007/12/peak-oil-in-australian.html
XXXXX ODAC News http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Dec02.htm
Open letter to Kevin Rudd, Australia's new Prime Minister http://www.energybulletin.net/38063.html
Green Party in Massachusetts takes stand on peak oil http://www.green-rainbow.org/Statements/fossilfuelcrisis_20071117.html
China releases draft energy law http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2007/12/03/afx4396385.htm...
Italian consumers warned of looming energy shortfall http://www.euro2day.gr/articlesfna/50131959/
The coming China crash http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...
Gulf Arab Nations May Revalue Currencies to Combat Weak Dollar http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=aeRcoZIP5s0g&refer=c...
Times: ‘Ominous warning sign’ as British Gas raises tariffs http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_...
Times: Opec expected to delay oil decision to March http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_...
XXXXX The First Days Of Petro Collapse http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild301107.htm
This Week in Petroleum 12-5-07: Big Drawdown in Crude Inventories http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3328
Peak oil is bunkum
Oil's well despite threat of $100 a barrel price tag http://business.scotsman.com/economy.cfm?id=1882712007
RICHARD "POL POT" HEINBERG http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/318-richard-pol-pot-heinberg...
No Peak Oil http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=52144
XXXXX War and “Peak Oil” http://oilstorms.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/fosilna-goriva-ili/
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
Reaching peak oil supply http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/D...
What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves? http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/12/are-you-peak-oil-advocate-b...
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX Of Hand Mills and Heat Engines: Peak Oil, Class Struggle, and the Thermodynamics of Production http://www.wwei.info/mediafiles/wwei/Keefer_Final_MRP_Oct_26_05.pdf
Living the Diesel Shortage in China http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/12/living-diesel-shortages-in-...
Soaring Prices Fuel Discontent http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/comment/newspaper-opinion/2007/12/03/soarin...
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
XXXXX Solvitur Ambulando http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/12/solvitur-ambulando.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Post Kyoto: the state of Denmark http://www.energybulletin.net/37604.html
XXXXX The Story of Stuff http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Peak oil and health/medecine
Our medical system: it's time to face peak oil http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07336/838187-109.stm
Peak Oil and Farming
XXXXX Fertiliser at a price – if you can get it http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=14704
XXXXX Richard Heinberg's Museletter: What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out? http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinbergs_museletter_what_will_we_e...
First fuel price protest meeting sees farmers back direct action http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=14723
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
New fears for UK housing in credit collapse http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c90fd3c-9df2-11dc-9f68-0000779fd2ac.html
IMF forecasts money down turn http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7110000/newsid_7116800/7116808.s...
XXXXX The credit crunch could crush the euro http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=M01PZ52DJMR3NQFIQ...
Rise in demand for part time work due to increased mortgage repayments http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=8580&cat=44-0...
UK Housing Market on Brink of Price Crash - Media Lessons from 1989! http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article2246.html?
Unemployment in U.S. Probably Rose to 16-Month High as Companies Cut Costs http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahLiqua11W00&refer=h...
Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,520700,00.html
Unemployment May Rise, Manufacturing Slow: U.S. Economy Preview http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahLiqua11W00&refer=h...
XXXXX Banking: This Disaster Was Guaranteed http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_50/b4062026774092.htm?ch...
Combatting rising indicators of looming recession http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-recession-swamp-link,0,288736...
Credit crunch alert over UK economy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/12/03/cnmorg...
It's too late to stop the UK housing crash http://www.moneyweek.com/file/38845/its-too-late-to-stop-the-housing-cra...
U.K. financial service woes have ripple effects http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10208311
U.S. debt: $30,000 per American http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-12-03-debt_N.htm?loc=intersti...
Florida Just First to Face National Run on the Bank: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a6Ne4_lh1TS4&refer=p...
Telegraph: Disposable income at lowest level in 10 years http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/08/ntax108....
It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR200712...
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
US house prices fall sharply http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/29/useconomy.houseprices?ref...
Sales Drop 23.5%; Prices Fell 13% http://seekingalpha.com/article/55945-new-home-sales-rebound-sales-drop-...
Housing glut causes rents to fall http://www.pe.com/business/local/stories/PE_Biz_D_rentals02.4e396d4.html...
Paulson's Plan to Punish the Public http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/11/30/paulsons-plan-to-punish...
Some Investors Fault Plan to Aid Home Borrowers http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119646960597110177-lMyQjAxMDE3OTA2...
Price Declines Portend Extended Downturn http://seekingalpha.com/article/56045-record-home-price-declines-portend...
Housing Slump's Third Year to Be Deepest Since WWII http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ah1avXfvpNak&refer=p...
O.C. distressed houses up 6% in 2 weeks http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com/2007/12/03/distressed-homes-for-up-u...
Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119662974358911035.html?ref=patrick.net
Mortgage meltdown http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s2032799.htm
House prices see biggest drop in 25 years http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/04/real_estate/home_prices/index.htm?postve...
XXXXX Two Houses For The Price Of One In Vegas http://housingdoom.com/2007/12/05/las-vegas-two-homes-for-price-of-one/?...
Peak Oil Digest ending 29th November 2007
 
Peak Oil in the World's mainstream media
$100 oil: the terrible truth       http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2216342,00.html
Apocalyptic vision of a post-fossil fuel world        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/22/eaoil122.xml
The Age of Petroleum draws to a close       http://www.radionetherlands.nl/radioprogrammes/earthbeat/071122-oil-conflict
Path to preservation       http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/872/ec2.htm
XXXXX       Reaching our peak oil supply           http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/112507dnedidreher.39d68e3a.html
Many see world oil-production ceiling nearer         http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/208772/
Peak Possibilities       http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686824,00.html
Demand, and high oil prices, are here to stay        http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/5325629.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/5325629.html      http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/11/25/don-t-be-fuelled-98487-20157289/
The needle and the damage done      http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/279635
Oil Trouble: How high can the price of a barrel of crude go?    http://www.newsweek.com/id/72491
So maybe those peak oil people weren't crazy after all         http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2007/11/new_column_so_maybe_those_peak.html?xid=rss-curious
 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
XXXXX        Questioning peak oil economic assumptions          Questioning peak oil economic assumptions
XXXXX            Chinese tiger has nothing in tank     http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22832180-25837,00.html
The Frightening Idea of $100 Oil           http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/11/27/the-frightening-idea-of-100-oil.aspx$100 oil and the 'S' word     http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/markets/oil_speculation/index.htm?cnn=yes
XXXXX      Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way      http://www.energybulletin.net/37751.html
Analysts predict average 2008 oil price near $75          http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20071126-0403-oil-poll-.html
New Russia-Ukraine gas row fears               http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7118143.stm
Supercycle buster          http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6655
XXXXX    Peak banana         http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/11/peak-banana.html
Oil prices and responding to the strange lack of response       http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=130&Itemid=1
Connecticut: Legislators want state to plan for oil shortage       http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-peakoil3nov26,0,3674766.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
XXXXX        Oil output from Sakhalin-2 suspended for rest of year after severe weather      http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/oil-output-sakhalin-2-suspended-rest/story.aspx?guid=%7BDCD540E3%2D5018%2D449E%2DB61B%2DF7CF426A466C%7D
Laptev Sea Shelf in Arctic May Hold 3 Billion Barrels of Undiscovered Crude Oil      http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/11/usgs-estimates.html#more
XXXXX    Airlines struggle as oil hits new highs: Expansion plans curbed        http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/26Nov2007_biz33.php
OPEC ready to quench Asia's thirst for oil, says Al Hameli          http://theseoultimes.com/ST/db/read.php?idx=5963
Ecuador's Correa:To Push OPEC To Switch To Stronger Currency         http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?StoryId=605ed963-a27f-47da-b8cf-ddc85e3c6ec8
Watch Out: A Correction in Oil is Coming     Watch Out: A Correction in Oil is Coming
XXXXX       Canada: China boom fuels price fear       http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/279138
BRAZIL: Pray, Cheer, and Do the Rain Dance to Stave Off Crisis       http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40178
XXXXX   Times: Gazprom tells Europe’s consumers to prepare for gas price increases    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2933504.ece
Rising fuel costs increase fares and reduce flights       http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2007-11-22-jetfuel_N.htm
Peak Oil II: Global Peak Oil Production Can Only Decline Now        http://www.stpns.net/view_article.html?articleId=64747576476486766
Russia stops Lithuania refinery oil supply      http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/146461.html
Gazprom deal with Eni drives wedge into hopes for EU unity        http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/22/business/gas.php
China Oct oil demand up 2.4 pct amid shortage       http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKPEK28607420071122
Mexico oil output falls, natural gas imports soar      http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2229502420071122?rpc=401&
Oil and Gasoline Prices: The Crack Spread        http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/11/oil-and-gasoline-prices-crack-spread.html
Back to the well: Bypassed oil beckons     http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071123.RREYNOLDS23/TPStory/Business
China's fuel-supply crisis      http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10184640
Norwegian oil and gas investments to peak in 2009       http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2250183020071122
Saudi Arabia’s 4th Strategic Oil Storage Facility Set     http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6&section=0&article=103972&d=25&m=11&y=2007
XXXXX          Peak  Oil        http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20060710/
XXXXX          Either / Or?     http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/
XXXXX              Hyper Inflation: Crude Oil and Gas The Next Fed Made Bubble To Come In 2008http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article2886.html
Oil makes the politics go round    http://iraqoilreport.com/2007/11/26/oil-makes-the-politics-go-round-…-iraq’s-political-situation-further-fracturing-…-bush-and-maliki-best-friends-forever/
XXXXX     Seven Questions: The Price of Fear   http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4045
Peak Oil Review - November 26th, 2007      http://www.energybulletin.net/37636.html
ODAC News - Monday 26 Nov         http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Nov26.htm
Norway sees no respite to high oil prices          http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20071126-0539-norway-oil-.html
Bite of high oil prices only beginning          http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071125/FEATURES05/71128006/1014/FEATURES05
$100 oil and the 'S' word          http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/markets/oil_speculation/index.htm
Seven Questions: The Price of Fear           http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4045
Peak oil is bunkum
XXXXX          Peak Oiler's Anxiety: "Are We All Wasting Our Time?"      http://oilandglory.com/2007/11/peak-oilers-lament-are-we-all-wasting.html
XXXXX    The Peak Oil Theory         http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=12396
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
What Would Jesus Buy?       http://www.newsweek.com/id/71662
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX        What happens if all of us are wasting our time?          http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic34162.html
XXXXX      New Presentations by Matthew Simmons      http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
XXXXX      Adaptive Responses to Peak Oil      http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/11/adaptive-responses-to-peak-oil.html
What will happen when the cheaper oil runs out?     http://www.caller.com/news/2007/nov/24/what-will-happen-when-the-cheaper-oil-runs-out/
XXXXX       China orders curbs on government departments' car use       http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/24/content_7136739.htm
Peak Oil And The Suburbanites           http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/peak-oil-and-suburbanites.html
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
XXXXX     Adaptive responses to peak oil      http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Peak Oil and Climate Change
XXXXX         If you really love the planet, hate the oil     http://www.thestar.com/News/article/279371
Peak oil and war/military
US Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces    http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/November/theworld_November679.xml&section=theworld&col=
Peak Oil and Farming
High food prices: Africa shows first signs of trouble      http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=071123151114.1hwjv4n9.php
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX      Spirals of death     http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4836&Itemid=53
Gold, Silver Rise; Dollar, Oil Spark Demand for Inflation Hedge      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=akm1PXdJN690&refer=commodities
The next credit scandal       http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/24/magazines/fortune/eavis_conduits.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007112603
Bears are becoming harder to ignore       http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno24nov24,1,2196088.column
Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis           http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b56079a8-9b71-11dc-8aad-0000779fd2ac.html
Don't look now: Here comes the recession              http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/23/magazines/fortune/barr_recession.fortune/index.htm?section=magazines_fortune
Housing woes have domino effect                http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-11-25-credit-crunch_N.htm?csp=34
Bloomberg: U.K. Third Quarter Economic Growth Unexpectedly Slows       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEqqENHsg6EM&refer=home
Eurozone split as bond spreads hit 6-year high     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BZI3R2DBUGBLNQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2007/11/22/bcnitaly122.xml
More Japan investors are 'quitting America'     http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/22/business/yen.php?WT.mc_id=rssbusiness
European Services Growth Slows on Higher Credit Costs       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aO0ZT9K3mL2U&refer=worldwide
German Import Price Inflation Accelerates on Oil       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aFqLjX24Ysm4&refer=europe
Japan: No lunch? Blame the oil price      http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20071123070740365C383919
FT.com: How Britain can avoid a subprime disaster     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/418f62a8-992f-11dc-bb45-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Oil steadies as record dollar weakness offsets demand worries UPDATE     http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-21183499.htm
More banks face being bowled over      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/25/subprimecrisis.creditcrunch
A plague on houses        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/investment/article2935427.ece
Irish property prices - fall 1.3% in October       http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1011898.shtml
The Falling Dollar and Prestige     http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16592895&ft=1&f=2
XXXXX   Spiralling oil prices will hit growth worldwide     http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=635d1b5c-47df-4c97-8134-1e2dce7ef6d5&MatchID1=4602&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=7&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1157&PrimaryID=4602&Headline=Spiralling+oil+prices+will+hit+growth+worldwide
Fannie and Freddie pullback would devastate US economy       http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN2318057620071123
XXXXX          Cracks appear all over Wall Street; bears may be prowling    http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2007-11-22-stocks_N.htm
U.K. Third Quarter Economic Growth Unexpectedly Slows      http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEqqENHsg6EM&refer=worldwide
The Telegraph: Average Briton is now £33,000 in debt          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=N1MM4MAVIGNJNQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/11/26/ndebt126.xml
Guardian: A&L set to make huge 'toxic loan' write-offs           http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/25/allianceleicesterbusiness.banking
Observer: Rate cuts threaten to send pound sliding         http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/25/globaleconomy.businessandmedia
Credit 'heart attack' engulfs China and Korea         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/21/bcnasia121.xml&ref=patrick.net
The Event Horizon For Credit        http://www.safehaven.com/article-8889.htm
XXXXX       Bank of England warns credit crisis to worsen     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/26/bcnbean126.xml
xxxxx      Liquidity and Credit Crunch Much Worse and More Dangerous     http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/227330?ref=patrick.net
Banks have billions more in undisclosed risk    http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/24/magazines/fortune/eavis_conduits.fortune/index.htm?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX             Goldman says US rates must be slashed                http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/28/ccusecon128.xml
XXXXX         The Telegraph: China wins from credit crunch fallout         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/28/ccrock128.xml&page=3
Times: ‘Bubble to burst for 30% overvalued homes’           http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/property_and_mortgages/article2963482.ece
Rough ride ahead as Winnebago in downturn        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/28/cnwin128.xml
XXXXX       The South Sea Bubble & the Northern Rock Bust          http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4839&Itemid=57
XXXXX      Beware our shadow banking system            http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/news/newsmakers/gross_banking.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007112807
Florida School Fund Rocked by $8 Billion Pullout Amid Defaults         http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSkgscULJ6Tk&refer=us
Oil Producers See the World and Buy It Up          http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/business/worldbusiness/28petrodollars.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
German lender's subprime woes deepen          http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/27/business/kfw.php
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Mortgage Failures Could Create Nightmare          http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071124/apfn_doomsday_scenario.html?.v=1
Subprime Mess to Worsen     http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586137992302497.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
Consider that house prices could fall         http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/business/25view.html?ref=patrick.net
Mortgage Giants: The cracks are spreading            http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10167658&top_story=1&ref=patrick.net
Prisoners of Debt           http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2007/db20071031_039775.htm?ref=patrick.net
Who are the winners in mortgage mess?      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21939570/?ref=patrick.net
ARM Resets to Hit the Fan in 2008   http://seekingalpha.com/article/55234-arm-resets-to-hit-the-fan-in-2008-wsj?source=patrick.net
XXXXX       Why 2011 might not even be the end       http://blownmortgage.com/2007/11/26/why-2011-might-not-even-be-the-end/?ref=patrick.net
Mortgage Meltdown on the Horizon     http://seekingalpha.com/article/55195-mortgage-meltdown-on-the-horizon?source=patrick.net
Pain isn't restricted to struggling homeowners      http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-11-25-credit-side_N.htm#housing?ref=patrick.net
Home Prices in U.S. Fell Record 4.5% in Third Quarter          http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=aiCmRHpXsgzU&refer=realestate
House price drop largest on recordhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071127/us_nm/usa_economy_homes_index_dc?ref=patrick.net
California Home Sales Down 40%          http://www.car.org/index.php?id=MzgwMTM=
House sales record low despite largest drop in prices ever           http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/28/news/economy/homesales/index.htm?ref=patrick.net
Fraud deepens Michigan housing crisis            http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/BIZ01/711280402&ref=patrick.net
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 22nd November  2007

must read article  XXXXXX   Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)        http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/11/peak-fun-and-inevitable-hangover.html
Peak Oil in the mainstream media
XXXXX       Peak Possibilities           http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686824,00.html
This Is Not Your Paranoid Uncle's Peak Oil Theory    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/19/the_skinny/main3520567.shtml
XXXXX      Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119543677899797558.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
We face a crude awakening over oil prices       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/18/ccliam118.xml&page=1
The Cowardly Giants     http://www.newsweek.com/id/70958
Welcome to a world of runaway energy demand       http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af2a0ed4-9223-11dc-8981-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Crude crunch coming          http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5318815.html
 
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Can Chavez push oil prices to $200?         http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1123/p07s02-woam.html
How $100 Oil Could Help       http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2007/db20071120_632522.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
China to increase oil output, exploration - Wen      http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-21135464.htm
The Peak Oil Crisis: Wall Street Comes To Reality          http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2123&Itemid=35
New Oil Crisis: An Engineer Shortage        http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1686084,00.html
XXXXX    Russia to Sell Crude Oil for Rubles       http://www.kommersant.com/p-11668/Crude_oil_ruble_/
As dollar weakens, Gulf nations look at currency pegs      http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/19/bloomberg/bxatm.php
U.S. Energy Sec: not worried by OPEC dollar debate          http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071120/bs_nm/oil_opec_bodman_dc_1;_ylt=AtmTl4eGLywyVaW3p7uVyr2AsnsA
Castro: Oil costs and development      http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ing/f191107i.html
Richard Heinberg outlines ways to reduce emissions and prepare for a world without oil         http://media.www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2007/11/19/CityNews/Resource.Depletion.Author.Speaks.About.Lowering.Carbon.Emissions-3109740.shtml
Is the Decline of Base Production Accelerating?         http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3236
Estimating the World Production Decline Rates from the Megaproject Forecasts        http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3203
More Evidence We've Entered the End of Oil        http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/11/the-end-of-oil.html
Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulxe1ie-vEY
High Cost of Oil May Linger          http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119561017663100037.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
Giving Thanks For Oil and OPEC         http://www.alternet.org/environment/68610/
XXXXX          Threat of $100 crude raises global alarm            http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d1227be-9868-11dc-8ca7-0000779fd2ac.html
XXXXX           Factors that contribute to Peak Oil crisis         http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=3784
Expensive oil is here to stay      http://www.moneyweek.com/file/38069/expensive-oil-is-here-to-stay.html
Thoughts about oil and Arctic refuge            http://www.peakoil.com/article33377.html
More Evidence We've Entered the End of Oil          http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/11/the-end-of-oil.html
Mid-Month Oil Reality Check           http://seekingalpha.com/article/54992-mid-month-oil-reality-check
Election silence on Peak Oil        http://greensblog.org/2007/11/22/election-silence-on-peak-oil/
Connecticut: Peak Oil Report to the Legislature and Governor    http://www.terrybacker.com/Peak%20oil%20and%20Natural%20Gas%20Report%20final%20111607-1.pdf
Energy Angst: Long-Term Oil Gloom Spreads In Houston     http://www.northstarwriters.com/lk017.htm
India: Dear Oil      http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/8309
XXXXX    The Next Trillion Barrels    http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20071009.html
XXXXX Estimating World Production Decline Rates from Megaprojects Database Forecasts  http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3203
This Is Not Your Paranoid Uncle's Peak Oil Theory    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/19/the_skinny/main3520567.shtml
Response to WSJ article on peak oil       http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3265Dilemma over spending of petrodollars
Mountains of cash … how to utilize it?         http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=8188&ccid=12
Brazil, the New Oil Superpower      http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2007/db20071115_045316.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
Peak Oil Review - November 19th, 2007       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=91
Practical oil peak could be closer than we think     http://www.pcw.co.uk/business-green/analysis/2203772/practical-peak-oil-closer-think
All about global Peak Oil production      http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=3730
Oil-rich Norwegians avoid 'curse'    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5309640.html
Oil’s Next Big Move: The Unseen Reason Why $150 Oil May be Right around the Corner       http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=522
Oil Rises More Than $1 on Signs OPEC's Lost Control of Prices       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602099&sid=aq98DYZEx_Hw&refer=energy
Riyadh is boom town as Saudis enjoy oil bonanza   http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15410473.htm
How Would You Manage Saudi's Reserves?       http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3240
Lester Brown: Ringing alarm of peak oil       http://torontosun.com/News/World/2007/11/16/4659971-sun.html
Implications of "peak oil" for atmospheric CO2 and climate    http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/submitted/Kharecha_Hansen.html
Energy crisis is on horizon, Mattthew Simmons says       http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/232359.html
High costs trim forecast for oil sands production       http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071115.wrnebmain1115/BNStory/energy/home
XXXXX       Peak Oil And Silence      http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild161107.htm
XXXXX        Are Hedge Funds Summiting Peak Oil?     http://www.hedgefund.net/publicnews/default.aspx?val=askshadow&story=8093
High Oil prices and global economic boom     http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=3702
XXXXX      The Peak Oil Crisis: Our Government is Speaking     http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2089&Itemid=35
The psychology of $100 per barrel     http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1115/oilprices.html
Dilemma over spending of petrodollars     http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=8188&ccid=12
Oil's Not Well      http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Oils_Not_Well/rssarticleshow/2550860.cms
Who's talking about peak oil     http://globalpublicmedia.com/whos_talking_about_peak_oil
Motley Fool's new blog: Opening Your Energy Mailbag           http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/11/20/opening-your-energy-mailbag.aspx
     
Peak oil is bunkum
PEAK OIL AND FERTILIZER: NO PROBLEM     http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html
Consequences of peak oil

XXXXX   Peak Oil Passnotes: Neo-Liberalism's Ultimate Failure Part 2     http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=37946
XXXXX       UK: Is it time to panic?      http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2213020,00.html
XXXXX  Kunstler: Formerly Normal       http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary22.html
OPEC's lost sway over oil prices       http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071119/wl_csm/oopec_1
Chavez in Tehran: 'Empire of dollar is crashing'      http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7087946
Endings aren't always happy           http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3251
The Freezing Point of Industrial Society          http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3228
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark           http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/224/
Clarke's Wager              http://www.scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=1223
Car crazy             http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=257&Itemid=91
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
How should I prepare for life without oil?      http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2210342,00.html
XXXXX         Preparing transportation for oil depletion       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=91
XXXXX     Can Shrunken Families be Reflated?          http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3198
Getting More Butts in Your House         http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/11/52-weeks-down-week-26-more-butts-in.html
   
Peak Oil and population
Bursting point: The World’s Unsustainable Population       http://zone5.org/2007/11/11/bursting-point-the-world’s-unsustainable-population/
Peak Oil and money
Will OPEC Dump the Dollar?           http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071120_087338.htm
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX       UK heads for worst growth in 15 years    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article2889416.ece
UK agent hit by cancelled home sales      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3a1e827e-9489-11dc-9aaf-0000779fd2ac.html
Goldman Sees Subprime Cutting $2 Trillion in Lending     http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=aXHulkIznCr0&refer=realestate
An economy on the brink of snapping       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/18/ccecon118.xml
G20 in warning on world economy          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7100720.stm
XXXXX      The Finance Round-Up: November 16th 2007     http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3249
XXXXX      Subprime mess is a crime story      http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=39d470d5-e383-4991-bdb5-0abb1f6a94bd&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX    Banks can't foreclose because they don't own the loans anymore     http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/business/15lend.html?ref=patrick.net
No shelter from the housing storm       http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/ContrarianChronicles/NoShelterFromTheHousingStorm.aspx?ref=patrick.net
America's economy: Getting worried downtown       http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10134077&ref=patrick.net
More Economists See U.S. Recession Ahead, Business Group Says       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a8OB88_sjTvw&refer=us
U.S. facing $2 trillion lending shock   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21834052/?ref=patrick.net
Six more hard years tipped for subprime fallout    
Wall Street money machine breaks down    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/11/26/101232838/index.htm
U.S. economy melting down           http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-economy-melting-down/story.aspx?guid=%7B744EEE81%2D4F92%2D4A09%2DA142%2D4A17CFD35C6D%7D&ref=patrick.net
U.S. Economy: Building Permits Slump to 14-Year Low        http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4pjU4PZc.l0&refer=us
Who will pick up the thread after the great unwinding?           http://www.ft.com/cms/s/afd6e830-978b-11dc-9e08-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fafd6e830-978b-11dc-9e08-0000779fd2ac.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prudentbear.com%2F
The coming consumer crunch           http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21838083/
XXXXX        What caused Japan's recession? Many  parallels with current situation           http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2193853.stm
XXXXX        Should we protect banks from their mistakes?     http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/26/magazines/fortune/citishelter.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007102914&ref=patrick.net
The Abysmal Track Records of Moody's, Fitch and S&P          http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/11/berating-the-ra.html
XXXXX        Don't Bank On Interest Rate Cuts        http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investing/investing-strategy/2007/11/21/dont-bank-on-interest-rate-cuts.aspx
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Fairfield, California housing prices plunge 23% in one year      http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/18/MNG4TBOR2.DTL&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX    Glitter under the gavel   http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/17/Business/Glitter_under_the_gav.shtml?ref=patrick.net
Lennar decides to “mothball” new O.C. development; local squatters and meth dealers jubilant      http://patrick.net/wp/
As Owners Feel Mortgage Pain, So Do Renters        http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18renters.html?ex=1353042000&en=ac0867fa0effebf5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Housing Market's Stench Means Cut Price to Sell       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=as_1Syu9JPcA&refer=patrick.net
XXXXX          The Great Fall: How Suburbs De-gentrify to Ghettos     http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov07/degentrification.html?ref=patrick.net
Prices down 11% for San Francisco Area           http://www.housingtracker.net/askingprices/California/SanFrancisco-Oakland-Fremont/?ref=patrick.net
California sees record $5 billion in foreclosureshttp://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=7042&ref=patrick.net
 
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 16th November  2007
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
Saudi oil minister rules out oil output hike       http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22751481-36418,00.html
Oil states must open door to investment, says ExxonMobil chief      http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2859396.ece
Oil price? Check the weather       http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/12/magazines/fortune/demos_weather.fortune/index.htm
XXXXX  U.S. Digs In to Guard Iraq Oil Exports      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119482675431289543.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Peak Oil Review - November, 12th, 2007      http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=251&Itemid=91
What resource wars?          http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IK14Dj02.html
Nigeria: Rising Oil Price Portends Danger, Says FG        http://allafrica.com/stories/200711130355.html
Wolves and bears circle energy security        http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article2865902.ece
British Energy set for new nuclear plants          http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3157802.ece
Oil prices only going up, Shell analysts warn         http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20071114.B08&irec=7
Chavez sees oil at $200 if Iran invaded       http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e346fdc-923f-11dc-8981-0000779fd2ac.html
Gazprom, EU clash over gas pipeline ownership       http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/14/content_7069088.htm
ODAC News - Tues 13 Nov             http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Nov13.htm
XXXXX     Peak oil: BP, Conoco and IEA all say it's there      http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/11/10/71327/177
China special: Growing pains of a superpower           http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626291.400
XXXXX   China seeks 30 pct increase in Saudi oil imports    http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7063791
XXXXX    Rising Demand for Oil Provokes New Energy Crisis        http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/business/worldbusiness/09oil.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Rising cost of oil threatens vulnerable economy       http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21673708/
XXXXX   The Empty Threat Of $100 Oil      http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/11/07/oil-pricing-impact-oped-cx_pm_1107notes.html
XXXXX     President Bush a peak oiler?     http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071107-5.html
XXXXX   Oil: running out for good this time      http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=74
XXXXX Big Oil CEOs Point To Constraints On Supply Growth      http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200711081845DOWJONESDJONLINE001218_FORTUNE5.htm
XXXXX         Truth in reserve    http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_leggett/2007/11/truth_in_reserve.html
Peak oil at Philadelphia forum for officials        http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NEWS01/711090390/1006/NEWS01
South African cities need to change lanes as oil runs dry        http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=3133
$100 Oil: Big Oil Struggles to Tap New Energy Amid High Costs          http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=52607America, the new ‘Great Game’ in Central Asia and the politics of oil        http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=79864
Gas prices up, customer anger down       http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20071110_Gas_prices_up__customer_anger_down.html
$100 Oil Will Mean Greater Instability in Fuel-Subsidizing Countries            http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=1335
Lula Says Brazil Oil Discovery May Lead Country to Join OPEC         http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aTNKpAjNhVkQ&refer=news
As Oil Soars, Natural Gas Is a Bargain        http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/business/10charts.html?em&ex=1194843600&en=4ed2b77b05519fda&ei=5087%0A
The world of Oil at $ 100       http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=3595
India - Oil: running out of options            http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/12/stories/2007111250771500.htm
Over a Barrel: The days of cheap oil are probably over             http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-effects_12edi.ART.State.Edition1.41ce416.html
XXXXX    Opinions of oil company executives on peak oil          http://www.energybulletin.net/37027.html
Supercycle Buster              http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/11/supercycle-buster.html
Baker Institute study shows 'Big Five' oil companies limit exploration           http://www.energybulletin.net/37078.html
The Peak Oil Crisis: Our Government is Speaking        http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2089&Itemid=35
Peak oil is bunkum
XXXXX   PEAK OIL NONSENSE      http://networdblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/peak-oil-nonsense.html
XXXXX   WEC: Saudi Aramco chief dismisses peak oil fears         http://www.ogj.com/display_article/312081/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/WEC:-Saudi-Aramco-chief-dismisses-peak-oil-fears/
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
Social change relies more on the easily influenced than the highly influential       http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uocp-scr111207.php
XXXXX      Economic and planetary collapse: Is it a therapeutic issue?        http://www.energybulletin.net/37091.html
Consequences of peak oil
Lester Brown: ''We all have a stake in future civilisation''          http://www.metrofrance.com/fr/article/2007/11/10/12/2946-34/index.xml
XXXXX       UK: Rising fuel prices drive road hauliers to the brink of fresh demonstrations        http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1788322007
Recycling a necessity not fad in Cairo        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_recycling_as_necessity;_ylt=AmdKkrHEMA.FW0DtTMuLmlhvaA8F
Energy Decline and National GDP in 2050: The Growth of Destitution         http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3230
Forecasting with a cloudy crystal ball    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4274038a1861.html
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Post-Carbon Cities and the Future of Growth      http://wildgreenyonder.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/post-carbon-cities-and-the-future-of-growth/
XXXXX           Preparing for Peak Oil - a new report from ODAChttp://www.odac-info.org/
        
Peak Oil and population
XXXXX   NPG Asserts America Is on Path to Population Disaster    http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,220672.shtml
XXXXX     Peak Oil Doomsday:Ahead Of Schedule          http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild141107.htm
 
Peak Oil and money
Global Peak Oil and Dollar             http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1194969720.php
Have Global Stock Markets Peaked on “Peak Oil?”          http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1194969720.php
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
Financial Times: House price correction threatens EU growth     http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2bef4dc-8eea-11dc-87ee-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
XXXXX       Thought the subprime mess was bad? Wait till the accountants get involved           http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071109.RKOZA09/TPStory/
Japan's Wholesale Inflation Accelerates on Oil Costs          http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aUY8Gnc4isPc&refer=home
$100 Oil May Mean Recession as U.S. Economy Hits `Danger Zone'            http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a1aGJ64Na3g8&refer=news
XXXXX XXXXX   Carnage on Wall Street as loans go bad       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7086909.stm
Is $100 Oil As Lethal As It Looks?   Not by itself. But combined with the housing bust, maybe so       http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_47/b4059057.htm
XXXXX           XXXXX     What the 'Subprime' Mess Is Really About          http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/regan-j2.html?ref=patrick.net
All age groups suffering inflation above the official rate - Alliance Trust Research         http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=8349&cat=44-0-0
Plans made to 'nationalise' Northern Rock        http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=426314&in_page_id=2&ct=5
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
XXXXX      Sorry Folks, the Housing ATM is Closed         http://seekingalpha.com/article/53560-sorry-folks-the-housing-atm-is-closed?source=patrick.net
It's harder than ever to get loans         http://realestate.msn.com/Buying/Article_mw.aspx?cp-documentid=5697915&GT1=10632&ref=patrick.net
Ripple effect of foreclosures touch entire communities            http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/14/BU6CTBKE9.DTL&ref=patrick.net
Squalor, crime follow wave of foreclosures             http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21773482/?ref=patrick.net
Peak Oil Digest ending 9th November  2007
Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
XXXXX      Fuelling Bolivia's crisis?         http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7083724.stm
Russian anti-monopoly service probes into low oil production          http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071103/86552385.html
China to continue raising fuel prices to correct economic distortions           http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/11/04/afx4297605.html
ASPO Newsletter - November 2007             http://www.aspo-ireland.org/contentFiles/newsletterPDFs/newsletter83_200711.pdf
Mexican President Calderon: Floods Cripple Mexico's Oil Industry           http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009043379
Reasons for Crude Oil Price Rises and the Repercussions            http://english.daralhayat.com/business/11-2007/Article-20071104-0a99ef00-c0a8-10ed-017c-47792304993d/story.html
The Perils of Petrocracy          http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04oil-t.html
Iran shuns greenback deals         http://www.ameinfo.com/136982.html
Ex-U.S. officials play out mock oil spike crisis            http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071101/us_nm/oil_shockwave_dc_1
Russian, China and Iran look ahead to post-hydrocarbon world            http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Analysis/2007/11/02/analysis_russia_dangles_nuclear_carrot/9226/
Pricing the Marginal Barrel of Oil          http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/11/pricing-marginal-barrel-of-oil.html
Citing Oil Prices, Asia Starts Reducing Fuel Subsidies          http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/business/02fuel.html
Energy Expert Sees Hazard in Costly Oil           http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/business/01fuel.html
XXXXX          NATO and energy security        http://karbuz.blogspot.com/2007/11/nato-and-energy-security.html
Total boss on why oil production will never top 100 mb/d         http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=71#more-71
Sleepwalking over the oil peak           http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6584
It's Hard Out Here for a Peak Oil Pimp.            http://lobg2.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-hard-out-here-for-peak-oil-pimp.html
Prof says politicians blinkered on peak oil         http://www.straight.com/article-116431/prof-says-politicians-blinkered-on-peak-oil
Peak Oil:Time's Up           http://www.countercurrents.org/berg021107.htm
XXXXX    Legislature begins planning for oil shortage         http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_7345309
Higher Oil Prices Blamed on Peaking Production           http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-31-voa81.cfm
What happens when the last drop of oil drops?           http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/green/entries/2007/11/01/what_happens_when_the_last_dro.html
Homes brace for heating oil highs              http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071107/lf_nm/usa_energy_heatingoil_dc_1;_ylt=Ampa0U8Ii2QwkPvoCldcIsGAsnsA
Venezuela increasing oil sales to China in 2008, Chavez says           http://wbztv.com/businesswire/APFN-LA-FIN--Venezuel/resources_news_html
XXXXX         Peak Oil Again?      Is "social meltdown" imminent?         http://reason.com/news/show/123349.html
U.S. sharply raises 2008 oil price forecast                http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071106/bs_nm/usa_eia_oil_price_dc_2;_ylt=ApA1j.Jj_eAU33ddaLykW3CAsnsA
Production from oil majors struggles to keep up as oil shoots for $100      http://www.platts.com/Oil/Resources/Futures/index.xml
XXXXXX    ODAC News - Telling the Whole Truth About Oil             http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=103243&d=6&m=11&y=2007
ODAC News - Monday 05 Nov          http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Nov05.htm
When Will Russia (and the World) Decline?              http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3139
Sleepwalking over the oil peak              http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6584
Peak Oil Review - November 5th, 2007           http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=91
What does Peak Oil mean for Investors?            http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0711/S00118.htm
ALL PEAKED OUT AND NO PLACE ELSE TO GO BUT DO-O-O-W-N                 http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149212&command=displayContent&sourceNode=150624&contentPK=18877983&folderPk=85744&pNodeId=150607
XXXXX Energy needs 'to grow inexorably'          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7081679.stm
XXXXX           The Peak Oil Crisis: The Washington Post            http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2048&Itemid=35
Production from oil majors struggles to keep up as oil shoots for $100         http://www.platts.com/Oil/Resources/Futures/index.xml
Energy agency urges higher oil inventories         http://www.peakoil.com/article32836.html
Shell leader discusses U.S., world's energy future            http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/294860.html
                 
Peak Oil and the Media
XXXXX    How to be a good source of environmental (or peak oil) news         http://ej.msu.edu/Sources_good.php
Peak Oil Is Bunkum
Oil and its peaks        http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=c0ae71d4-8581-4a09-a5e7-b1b46247e739
Has Peak Oil Been Reached? No!          http://www.scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=1191
          
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
XXXXX     Let's play "Peak Oil Shock Me"              http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/11/lets-play-peak-oil-shock-me.html
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX   Saudi Arabia urges other Gulf countries to develop armed forces to defend oil           http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/07/africa/ME-GEN-Saudi-Arabia-GCC.php
XXXXX    Peak Oil: Alternatives, Renewables, And Impacts          http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2757/81/
Truckers angry over rising cost of diesel fuel        http://www.standardspeaker.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6188&Itemid=2
XXXXX     Post Peak Oil carrying capacity of earth      http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=2134
XXXXX     Preparedness for what? Comparing terrorism and peak oil.         http://www.energybulletin.net/36704.html
XXXXX         Peak food is an inevitable consequence of peak oil              http://futurismic.com/2007/11/05/peak-food-is-an-inevitable-consequence-of-peak-oil/
XXXXX     How to prepare for Peak Oil           http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/11/06/how-to-prepare-for-peak-oil/
XXXXX      What Happens When Demand for Oil Outstrips Supply?         http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,217634.shtml
XXXXX        Soaring fuel prices could ground United planes          http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/07/news/companies/united_airlines.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007110717
XXXXX    Waiting for the other shoe        http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
XXXXX     Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US          http://www.energybulletin.net/23259.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
XXXXX     Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change and peak oil            http://globalpublicmedia.com/richard_heinbergs_museletter_big_melt_meets_big_empty
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
U.K. Manufacturing Declines Most in Seven Months          http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alqlaK42ECDY&refer=home
Oil, gold and euro surge to record prices          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EKTGVUNTQQQLHQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2007/11/07/cngold107.xml
Risk of securities fire sale mounts            http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/17f683c2-8c9b-11dc-b887-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
XXXXX        The Federal Reserve Is Scared Silly           http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4406.2649.0.0&ref=patrick.net
XXXXX         "The End is Nigh!" Cries Paul Volcker, as Heads Topple at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup            http://patrick.net/housing/contrib/volcker.html
XXXXX        Fewer beer and pizza nights as prices soar      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AU3NO40QZQBMZQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2007/11/08/cnprices108.xml
Banks end the era of easy loan cash         http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/09/nloan109.xml
The Fed: U.S. faces risks of downturn, inflation: Bernanke       http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/economy-faces-dual-risks-downturn/story.aspx?guid=%7BCC09337F%2D6C92%2D46D4%2D98F2%2DDEB4461EB05E%7D
XXXXX      Leverage becomes enemy when prices fall       http://www.idahostatesman.com/business/story/204887.html?ref=patrick.net
Bankruptcy Law Backfires on Banks       http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ar909uO1CqHw&refer=patrick.net
US Credit Card Debt a $915 Billion Disaster-in-Waiting      http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/credit_card_debt_banks/2007/11/06/47264.html?ref=patrick.net
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
U.S. house prices fall for eighth straight month           http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/real_estate/bc.homepriceindex.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007103009&ref=patrick.net
The Credit Noose Continues to Tighten           http://seekingalpha.com/article/52948-the-credit-noose-continues-to-tighten?source=patrick.net
Wave of foreclosures cost cities time and money            http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1530780.html
Condo Fee Defaults Surge in Manhattan       http://www.nysun.com/article/66066?ref=patrick.net
Houses Left Vacant in Slump Mar Neighborhoods      http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16052800&ref=patrick.net
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 2nd November  2007 
 
 
 Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
XXXXX           As Oil Price Sets New High, Stress Hits Developing Nations            http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119384522956777767.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
XXXXX         Spreading the Peak Oil Message                       http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/peak+oil-global-growth/968
Chinese oil giants to import more diesel as domestic fuel prices rise           http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Oil_and_Gas/10164406.html
Big Trouble for Big Oil                http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2007/db2007111_689700.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
XXXXX     No cause for alarm, says minister after power cut warning          http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2202772,00.html
France Releases 285,000 Tons Crude From Strategic Stocks - Government        http://www.lloyds.com/CmsPhoenix/DowJonesArticle.aspx?id=371266
XXXXX       The Marginal Cost of a Barrel of Oil             http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/11/pricing-marginal-barrel-of-oil.html
IEA reviews reliance on USGS resource estimates                http://www.dahttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b0d83bfa-87df-11dc-9464-0000779fd2ac.html
vidstrahan.com/blog/?p=69
Are We in a Speculative Bubble with Regard to Oil Prices?        http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3157?nocomments
China Hikes Fuel Prices Amid Shortages             http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihXHMrpUHdtown-KAdgh7Lvu040wD8SKLOB03
China fuel crisis spreads          http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071031/ts_nm/china_oil_shortages_dc_1;_ylt=AhHYLNytYNPz4NBrM96hdAGAsnsA
Peak oil: How serious is it?           http://business.iafrica.com/features/664189.htm
For oil producers, energy security rises up the political agenda         http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/28/business/rensecu.php
ASPO-USA Conference Notes Are Available       http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=91
On the other side of the mountain      http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/10/on_the_other_side_of_the_mount_1.html
Countdown to $100 oil (50) - it's not 'oil', it's 'liquids'         http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/10/27/185045/83
USA 2034: A Look Back at the 25th Anniversary Year            http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3140
XXXXX                UK Energy Security          http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3130
Resource Depletion, Persuasion, and the Ongoing World Meme            http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3137
ODAC News - Thursday 25 Oct                 http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Oct25.htm
No real alternative to oil: Rise in demand seems unavoidable           http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/29/business/renover.php?page=1
Something's Got to Give              http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm
Oil production has peaked - al-Huseini       http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=67
China to reach peak oil production as early as 2015 - leading scholar         http://www.interfax.cn/displayarticle.asp?aid=29090&slug=CHINA-ENERGY-OIL-GAS-PRODUCTION-PEAK
Another Inconvenient Truth - A presentation you can download            http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3150
Feedback Loops             http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
ODAC News - Monday 29 Oct           http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Oct29.htm
A dose of reality for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projection          http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=242&Itemid=91
"Golden age" of oil refining margins to end                 http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN956513.html
Why BP is cutting back in Aberdeen as oil prices soar           http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.1791385.0.0.php
New Zealand's oil rush           http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=37&objectid=10472081
Pol/Econ: The Last Days of the PetroDollar            http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6352/
Peak Oil Review - October 29th, 2007        http://www.energybulletin.net/36369.html
Higher oil prices blamed on peaking production            http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-31-voa81.cfm
The perfect storm             http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=243&Itemid=91
Oil crisis exercise bares US 'impotence'              http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Oil_crisis_exercise_bares_US_impotence_999.html
Peak Oil is Bunkum
Check out the world's largest Oil Reserve         http://www.commodityonline.com/newnews.php?id=3405
Confessions of an ‘ex’ Peak Oil Believer       http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/10/30/confessions-of-an-ex-peak-oil-believer/?url=http%3A%2F%2F321energy.com%2Feditorials%2Fengdahl%2Fengdahl092607.html&frame=true
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX         Assumptions                       http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary22.html
Could Crude Oil $100 Cause the Next Credit Crunch?           http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article2592.html
Here to stay              http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/29/01347/293
The Peak Oil Crisis: After The Peak?         http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2015&Itemid=35
Peak oil: More than cars                  http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/31/122048/85
XXXXX       After the peak?         http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2015&Itemid=35
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Israeli cities find bright way to cut energy use           http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916764.html
XXXXX How to Build a Local Energy Economy          http://www.alternet.org/environment/66515/
Peak oil and farming
Peak Oil And Famine:    Four Billion Deaths                     http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild291007.htm
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
XXXXX             Credit crisis 'could cripple UK economy'             http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Mail%3A+Credit+crisis+%27could+cripple+UK+economy%27&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
XXXXX      The Recessionary Macro Effect of the Worst U.S. Housing Bust Ever             http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/223214/?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX      China's 20pc wages rise prompts inflation fears          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=W31SL2UDF3ZDBQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/10/30/wchina130.xml
XXXXX          The Bear’s Lair: Level 3 Decimation?             http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4809&Itemid=53
XXXXX     The $915B bomb in consumers' wallets          http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/29/magazines/fortune/consumer_debt.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007103007
More trouble ahead for credit markets         http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/01/markets/credit_turmoil/index.htm?ref=patrick.net
The Next Worry: Bond Insurers          http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2007/db20071031_063325.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives&ref=patrick.net
Fed Pumps $41B Into US Financial System                 http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/fed_markets.html?.v=2&ref=patrick.net
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
XXXXX        Pent Up Housing Supply      http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/10/pent-up-housing-supply.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX       Stressed borrowers use plastic to delay default            http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071028/us_nm/usa_creditcards_debt_dc?ref=patrick.net
8 Cities Record Largest Price Declines on Record           http://efinancedirectory.com/articles/8_of_20_Major_Metro_Areas_Record_Largest_Year-Over-Year_Home_Price_Declines_on_Record.html?ref=patrick.net
 
Peak Oil Digest ending 27th October 2007
 Peak Oil / Oil and Gas supply-demand/ energy security
The peak oil crisis: A message from Houston   http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1984&Itemid=35
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil (Podcast)       http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=65L
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil         http://www.peakoilwhen.org/Report_oct07.pdf
Chevron CTO Says Peak Oil Won't Be a Disaster              http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/chevron-cto-says-peak-oil-wont-be-a-disaster-229.html
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities           http://dynamiccities.squarespace.com/dcp-slideshows-publications/
Report: 'World at peak oil output'        http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/10/24/oil.decline/
Peak oil or peak emissions?           http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/oct/business/110107comment.html
This Week in Petroleum 10-24-07          http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3133
Professor Saeedi: A catastrophic loss of 3.9 trillion Dollars in Iran's oil reservoirs         http://www.payvand.com/news/07/oct/1211.html
RenCap again cuts Russian oil output forecast        http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL1864486120071018
Non-OPEC Oil Production             http://www.cfr.org/publication/14554/
Global Oil Trends            http://www.cfr.org/publication/9484/global_oil_trends.html?breadcrumb=%2F
The Peak Oil Issue -- A Progress Report          http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=238&Itemid=91
XXXXX        Power cuts warning as energy chiefs shut down half of UK nuclear power stations          http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489362&in_page_id=1770
Global Oil Output Has Already Peaked, Pickens Says               http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ajMgRIfZrNVk&refer=news
Peak Oil Passnotes: $100, Here We Come           http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=36944
Saudi Aramco may miss production goals, says Simmons            http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=14118&t=1&c=33&cg=4
Peak oil means peak economy - Hirsch            http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=63
Peak oil production 'decades away' - Lukoil chief             http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=11565
Energy industry can do little as oil rises       http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=OGN&artid=132456
Report from ASPO: Dark clouds, no silver linings         http://www.platts.com/weblog/oilblog/2007/10/report_from_aspo_dark_clouds_n.html
Canadian Gas - Decline Sets in             http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/3095
ODAC News -- Saturday 20 Oct             http://www.odac-info.org/news_archive/documents/2007/2007Oct20.htm
Peak oil and Changing attitudes
XXXXX          Willits meets the S-curve         http://dg.specificclick.net/?u=http%3A//resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/10/willits-meets-s-curve.html&r=http%3A//www.energybulletin.net/36033.html
Consequences of peak oil
XXXXX       Peak Oil could trigger meltdown of society          http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_68545.shtml
The Social Effects of Peak Oil         http://globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/2801
Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study         http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
The defining issue for transport planning is peak oil, not traffic congestion              http://www.kwoff.com/story.php?title=The_defining_issue_for_transport_planning_is_peak_oil_not_traffic_congestion
Solutions for transition to Energy Independence
Developing community constitutions         http://www.energybulletin.net/35963.html
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Global warming could threaten U.S. oil output           http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1836566920071018?sp=true
Peak Oil and money
XXXXX            America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks                   http://www.safehaven.com/article-8658.htm
Peak Oil and Farming
XXXXX         The Connection Between Food Supply and Energy: What Is the Role of Oil Price?          http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3124&r=http%3A
Global and National recessionary trends which will affect Cornwall, due to rising fuel prices
Bloomberg: THE US DOLLAR IS 'DOOMED'         http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vZl3xuDhR3QY.asf
UK manufacturing orders decline             http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7057939.stm
XXXXX      A Subprime Outlook for the Global Economy         http://www.investorsinsight.com/otb_va_print.aspx?EditionID=604&ref=patrick.net
Millions of Brits worry and lie about debts, says Fool.co.uk                  http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/2007/10/19/millions-fib-about-their-finances.aspx
US Inflation Understated in Official Statistics - Prices are the Cart, Money Supply is the Horse         http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article2507.html
Wal-Mart cuts prices on 15,000 more items, as US retailers gird for a slow holiday shopping season         http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_w/wal_mart/20071020_retailers.html
Times: Black clouds loom on horizon after years of plenty          http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article2709694.ece?Submitted=true
Barclays and RBS line up Fed for £15bn                http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=Y1LKZ1140PA1RQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/money/2007/10/21/cnfed121.xml
The Finance Round-Up: October 17th 2007          http://dg.specificclick.net/?u=http%3A//canada.theoildrum.com/node/3098%23more&r=http%3A//www.housepricecrash.co.uk/
Liebscher Says Oil Prices Pose `Significant' Inflation Risks           http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=ayN2e8OmDKlY&refer=economy
XXXXX           Oil & Housing: A Volatile Combination               http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_44/b4056049.htm
Supermarkets 'raise food bill by £750 a year'               http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/23/nshop123.xml
New credit crunch looms        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/23/cncredit123.xml
Time for the Banks to Face the Hangman           http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney10172007.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX         Curing SIV          http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9993423&ref=patrick.net
Lessons from the credit crunch            http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9988758&ref=patrick.net
Greenspan Says Demand for U.S. Debt May Be at `Limit'            http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aG3NEynW7ik8&refer=patrick.net
Foreign property dreams crash           http://www.independent.ie/business/foreign-property-dreams-crash-1200467.html?ref=patrick.net
XXXXX        Destined To Fail         http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/10/destined-to-fail.html?ref=patrick.net
 
There are hundreds of articles each week about the US Housing slump. Here's a sample of them
Chicago-Area Homebuilder Will File for Bankruptcy After Default     http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a14.0Y6iNNGI&refer=home
The Observer: How the roof fell in on America's property gamblers              http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195711,00.html
Housing Declines: Don't Forget About Inflation            http://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct07/housing-inflation.html?ref=patrick.net
California Homes Are Overvalued by as Much as 40%, Goldman Says            http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601206&sid=awTwHUdj2wM0&refer=realestate&ref=patrick.net