Petrodollars & US dollar

-The most recent economic downturn is a peak oil recession
-Oil: future world shortages are being drastically underplayed, say experts
-Oil reflects dollar moves, not market dynamics: Yergin
-Is the world awash in oil?

-IEA Whistleblower Claims Agency Has Downplayed Looming Oil Shortage
-"It's Really Bad" - Oil Supplies Intentionally Overstated
-Looming oil crunch played down: IEA whistleblower
-Did the US pressure the IEA over oil supply forecasts?

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- Recovery or Speculation?
- Climate Change
- Peak Demand
- Quote of the Week
- Energy Stat of the Week
- Briefs

The world’s first peak-oil recession has come to a close, according to third-quarter numbers invented by the federal government. Apparently dumping trillions of dollars onto big banks, insurance companies, and automobile manufacturers interrupted the plummeting descent of American Empire. The stock markets skyrocketed expectedly. Predictably, so did the commodities markets.

The party isn't over -- at least not yet. For the last year, relatively low oil prices have helped us all cope with the economic collapse. We've paid less for gasoline than we have for years. And businesses have paid less for running their factories, planes and product transportation. But last week we began hearing the music die down and waiters moving guests out the door.

Passing the world oil peak has had, and doubtless will continue to have, relatively little impact on the long-term price of gasoline. The economic implications of getting through the first half of the Oil Age have been much more significant, a trend that seems likely to continue until the collapse is complete.

-Oil Demand Has Peaked in Developed Nations, Never to Return -- Report
-Why Oil Is Much More Plentiful Than "Peak Oil" Advocates Claim
-Russia 2010 oil output to fall -Bernstein analysts
-Crude Oil Jumps Above $75 to One-Year High on Demand Optimism

A weekly round-up including:
- Prices and production
- China

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- An independent assessment
- The Bangkok climate talks
- Quote of the Week
- Briefs

"A peak of conventional oil production before 2030 appears likely" and "there is a significant risk of a peak in conventional oil production before 2020..."

CNBC invited Jim Rickards, a senior managing director at a firm called Omnis to comment on the latest G-20 meeting and the future of the dollar. His testimony shows some rare lucidity about the present problems with our monetary system. He is bearish on the dollar, bullish on gold, but don't mistake him for a gold bug, for he is well aware of the consequences of a flight to the “barbarian's relic".

A weekly round-up including:
- Prices and production
- The Monthly Oil Market Report

-Michael C. Lynch and “the false threat of disappearing oil.”
-The New York Times on Peak Oil - Don't Worry, Be Happy
-Oil: the Long Goodbye
-150 Years of Plenitude: The Story of Oil

A weekly round-up including:
- Prices and production
- China