Soaring fuel prices and green pressures herald comeback for Britain's waterways
Fuel theft increases in the UK
Companies face crackdown on electricity greenwash

Italy may provide for us an interesting test case economic collapse (although Spain, too, may be in the race). Maybe collapse is too strong a word, but it is clear that things are not going well in Italy.

An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
- Production and Prices

- Iran

- Nigeria

- China

- In the Congress

- Energy Briefs

The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.

An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
- Production and Prices

- India’s Economy

- China after the Olympics

- TNK-BP

- Energy Briefs

Australia faces food crisis as rivers reach new low
A gas supply disruption case study - the Varanus Island explosion
Australia considers first new coal port in 25 years

Guardian 'publishes the biofuels report they didn't want you to read'
Donald Mitchell, World Bank
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response

Pemex Cantarell output drops most since 1995 on spending limits
Chinese and Japanese best-placed for oil contracts in Iraq
Genesis of a giant

The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.