Statistical fluke prevents nuclear incident in Ohio
Debbie Cook: Abandon 19th century fuels and move toward 21st century reponses
Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
Schumer: “The drilling issue has peaked”
Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby

If guys like Charlie stopped working for a year, you'd have to turn a few things off, big things like, say, New York and Ohio.

Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden's energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens' plan and California's Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey

If the peak theory proves true, the intersection between rising worldwide demand and a decline in world production would likely drive prices much higher, giving drillers even more incentive to go after every last drop of oil they can find in old fields as well as new ones. (Texas oil man Jim Baldauf, co-founder of ASPO-USA, is interviewed.)

Long term oil is headed back up, for all the familiar reasons. Really, it’s not like anyone is finding new large oil deposits out in exploration land. Indeed, a whole lot of looking is leading to not very much finding in the exploration patch.

Oman turns to coal for power
Carbon sequestration frustration
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place

Bolivia gets the change it asked for
Life is a misery for ‘married bachelors’ in the UAE
Fresh start for Nigerian oil activists?

The Post is to be congratulated for a tour d'horizone that touches most of the bases relevant to peak oil. They acknowledge the problem, use the words "peak oil," discuss much of the evidence and cite the differences of opinion as to the imminence of a crippling problem. Reading between the lines, one can sense an editorial debate, for the obvious conclusion is one no reader wants to hear.

Yet another forecast for Saudi oil production
Does another run higher for crude await?
Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits
Raymond J. Learsy and abiotic oil

Even an optimistic projection shows only a small shoulder in the US oil production around 2025. Is this enough to scare the oil speculators and keep oil prices down?