Peak Oil
Up until now, higher prices have always been met by more oil pumped. This wont be able to happen for much longer, so prices will continue to rise until people find ways to use less oil. Until then there will be shortages, much higher prices and growing international tension over remaining oil stocks. We are not facing the “end of oil”; it will be around for at least another 50 years. However, we are facing the end of cheap and abundant oil, on which our society has been built.
Solutions to peak oil are also part of the solution to climate change .
Latest News
Nat’s energy policy is financial madness
14 Aug 2008
The National Party's new energy policy is a tribute to cronyism and makes no economic sense. It ignores our biggest energy problem, transport fuels and the rising cost of oil, and relies on ‘drill and hope’. No one with any common sense would invest in more subsidies to fossil fuels when New Zealand is so well endowed with renewable energy.
Oil Addiction
Not one of ours, it's from the good magazine, but makes the peak oil point so well - can't think of anywhere better for it to be than our peak oil page.
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Oil dependency takes its toll
28 Jul 2008Today’s new trade deficit figures showing a massive increase in the cost of importing petrol and other oil products dramatically illustrate why the Government must reduce New Zealand’s dependence on oil, the Green Party says.
$1/litre petrol drives NZ’s biggest roading programme
15 Jul 2008A Green Party analysis of Land Transport New Zealand economic evaluations shows that the Government systematically discriminates against public transport projects, including the pricing of petrol at $1 dollar a litre.
$10 a litre petrol prices in a decade is a wake-up call
11 Jul 2008
Predictions from prestigious Australian research institute CSIRO that petrol could cost up to AUS$8 – about NZ$10 – per litre within a decade means we need to rapidly change course to avoid serious economic disarray.
Government's transport plan based on petrol at $1 per litre.
Plans to spend 230 times more on roads than on cycle and walking.
Peak Oil Links
Chevron's Will You Join Us - Even big oil recognises that "the era of easy oil is over". Their new website highlights the rapid pace of oil consumption and invites participation in public debates on our energy future. As their vision says "We can wait until a crisis forces us to do something. Or we can commit to working together, and start by asking the tough questions."
EnergyBulletin.net - A clearinghouse for current information regarding the peak in global energy supply. Publish news and research. They have an excellent Peak Oil Primer that contains links to a wide variety of useful websites.
Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) - An independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem. Comprehensive list of recent news.
Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) - A network of scientists, affiliated with European institutions and universities, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas.