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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

In addition, high energy prices make people behave more efficiently in the way they use energy, thereby reducing emissions. High oil prices also make renewable energy more competitive, spurring further investments in solar and wind. But fossil fuels are not only oil. Coal, still used to generate most of the world's electricity, is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than oil - and there's enough coal in the world to last another couple of centuries at least, busting any reasonable emissions budget many times over.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

Without cheap fertilizers—and the cheap oil used to make them—this productivity can't be sustained. As oil prices continue climbing this century, this cycle may stall with disastrous consequences. We burned more than a trillion barrels of oil over the past two decades. That's eighty million barrels a day—enough to stack to the moon and back two thousand times. Making oil requires a specific series of geologic accidents over inconceivable amounts of time. First, organic-rich sediment needs to be buried faster than it can decay.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

Synfuels' still supply half of South Africa's petrol and diesel, and with high world oil prices, coal 'synfuels' are becoming competitive elsewhere too. The liquidation of coal produces much more C02 than conventional refining - so peak oil in this case would worsen global warming. Other 'unconventional oil' sources are similarly polluting - the extraction of oil from the tar sand deposits in the Canadian province of Alberta uses vast quantities of steam and natural gas, meaning that the 'energy returned on energy invested' ratio is dangerously low and emissions dangerously high.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

But now we see things happening that are frightening people—the extreme hikes in oil prices, vast portions of the Arctic that are melting, evacuations of South Seas island nations [like Tuvalu], due to the rising tide. People are ready for the next big leap. I want to see change accelerate, and most of the deep thinkers on the topic like Amory and Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken know there has to be more, something more fundamental, because otherwise all we are ever doing is lobbying for this side or that. That's pure power money politics where you pay for phones and campaigners.

At the same time that NatureWorks has increased its manufacturing know-how and increased efficiency, oil prices have risen dramatically. Indeed, even before the devastating consequences that hurricanes Kat-rina and Rita wrought on the petrochemical industry in the Gulf of Mexico, the "corntainers" in its deli cost Wld Oats 5 percent less than traditional plastic, said spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele. Also flexing their economic patriotism is Newman's Own, the natural foods company the movie actor and race car driver Paul Newman began with his daughter Nell.

Skyrocketing oil prices had breathed life into even formerly abandoned wells, and the Midway-Sunset oilfield was humming with happy men and women. I drove down Highway 33, past Berry Petroleum, Conoco, ExxonMobil, and a host of independents' signs. I took Shale Road down toward the coastal foothills. I was surrounded. You do not know what an oilfield is until you have visited the Midway-Sunset field, and you are driving down Shale Road, and the oil pumps become ever more numerous. I turned off the radio, which was now nothing but static.

Due to drought and inability to grow enough food to feed its people, internal conditions in China deteriorate dramatically, leading to civil war and border wars. ?Oil prices increase as the security of the supply is threatened by conflicts in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea Region. ?In Europe, we see old-time skirmishes between France and Germany over commercial access to the Rhine. Third Decade ?Nearly 10 percent of the European population has moved to a different country. Tension grows between China and Japan over Russian energy. •The EU nears collapse.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

The assumption was that high oil prices were here to stay and everybody wanted to cash in. U.S. oil companies benefited as much as anyone from the high price level despite having passed peak domestically years earlier. (They were still pumping and still producing more than half of America's domestic needs.) The American companies plowed profits into exploring around the Gulf of Mexico and into new techniques for recovering oil from older fields.

Clinton Democrats regarded any upticks in oil prices as being a conspiracy between the Republicans and their donor-sponsors in the oil industry. Meanwhile, Democrats have tried to compensate for their purblind irresponsibility on energy issues by assuming a position of moral superiority on environmental issues. Yet many yuppie progressive "greens" are the ones who drove their SUVs to environmental rallies and, even worse, made their homes at the far exurban fringe, requiring massive car dependence in their daily lives. The epitome of this attitude was Amory B.

The massive system seemed to have a momentum of its own that defied occurrences such as a doubling of crude oil prices over the past year. Anyway, life in the United States was so frantic—between the grinding job insecurity, and the war in Iraq, and the horrendous traffic, and orange terror alerts, and child abductions, and the maxed-out credit cards, and the hurricane of the week, and the lack of medical insurance— there was already too much in the here-and-now to worry about.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

In just the past ten years, the distance flown by international passengers each year has increased by 60 percent; this despite temporary setbacks from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Iraq war, outbreaks of terrorism, soaring oil prices, and economic slowdowns. The World Tourism Organization projects that by 2010 there will be more than 1 billion international tourist arrivals, reflecting a trend toward more long-haul travel. By 2020, 1.2 billion people are projected to have traveled regionally; 400 million, to have traveled farther afield.

The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases Philip Yam See book keywords and concepts

If true, the disease had been triggered by a world event that had no immediately obvious food-safety implications: the decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)—founded in i960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela—to raise crude oil prices. Forced Cannibalism In October 1973, in retaliation for Western nations' support of Israel against its Arab neighbors in the so-called Yom Kippur War, OPEC decided to raise oil prices 70 percent.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

In the fall of 2004, oil prices rose above fifty dollars a barrel. Princeton University's Ken Deffeyes, a distinguished professor emeritus of geology, something of a jokester, but a fundamentally serious scientist, predicted on National Public Radio a few weeks prior to this writing that a final unequivocal global oil production peak would occur on Thanksgiving 2005, with "an uncertainty factor of only three or four weeks on either side."13 This was a revision of statements he made in 2003 that the world had possibly already passed peak. The truth is that nobody will be able to 13.

In late 1985, world oil prices collapsed. By early 1986 West Texas crude had plummeted from a high of $31.75 a barrel to $10. Some OPEC countries went as low as $6. The fifteen-year-glut was on. The price collapse benefited many businesses, but hit U.S. oil companies hard. The majors quickly shut down exploration ventures and shed employees. Independents went out of business and suppliers went bankrupt as drilling stopped. Oil cities such as Tulsa and Houston went into economic tailspins.

Without surplus capacity, the ability to open the valves and flood the market with "product," the United States had ceded control of world oil prices to somebody else who still did have surplus capacity. That "somebody else" was the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), led by Saudi Arabia. The First Real Oil Shock In 1973, Saudi Arabia had tremendous surplus capacity. The country had more oil to start with than the United States had had a hundred years earlier, and had entered the process of discovery and production much later than America did.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

The Wall Street Journal reported that oil companies are reaping huge cash windfalls from the rise in oil prices. This points out an interesting fact. oil prices continue to rise, not because costs are rising, but simply because the oil companies demand more profits. The Wall Street Journal exposes that the oil companies are reaping windfall profits at the expense of the consumer. This is an obvious violation of antitrust laws and a violation of business ethics—all at the expense of you and me, the consumer.

The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases Philip Yam See book keywords and concepts

Forced Cannibalism In October 1973, in retaliation for Western nations' support of Israel against its Arab neighbors in the so-called Yom Kippur War, OPEC decided to raise oil prices 70 percent. OPEC jacked the prices up again in December, this time by 130 percent, and imposed a temporary embargo on shipments to the U.S. The long lines at the gas pumps that many Americans endured were just part of the economic stagnation that much of the world began to experience because of the price shocks.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Clinton, we witness the onset of the most gas-guzzling monstrosities the world has ever seen (SUVs), plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the highest oil prices ever, and a corrupt Department of Energy and Patent Office that suppress promising new alternatives. Meanwhile both Mr.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Bush's mission to Saudi Arabia was to persuade its leaders to help stabilize oil prices that were rapidly falling to under $10 a barrel. His trip was successful. Saudi Arabia's King Fahd received the Iranian petroleum minister in the autumn of 1986 and the two countries agreed to OPEC arrangements for boosting oil prices to $18 a barrel. The $18 price brought economic relief to oil-producing states like Texas, which were the key to Bush's political base. SOURCES: Pacific News Service, 12/21/87, "Bush Had Oil Policy Interest in Promoting Iran Arms Deals," by Peter Dale Scott.

Why oil prices Go Up 1976 SYNOPSIS: While most Americans believe the increase in oil prices was due to the Arab oil embargo started in 1973, few are aware that their elected representatives collaborated with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Persian oil-producing nations to deliberately inflate the price of oil. As early as 1971, the U.S. State Department established oil policy priorities during international negotiations, emphasizing the "stability, orderliness, and durability" of supply with no intention of maintaining price limits.

Further, Scott says, the interest in higher oil prices was an explicit goal in some of Oliver North's secret arms negotiations with the Iranians. The price of oil reflected the concerns of Bush, a former Texas oilman, rather than that of Reagan, a free market advocate. Bush's mission to Saudi Arabia was to persuade its leaders to help stabilize oil prices that were rapidly falling to under $10 a barrel. His trip was successful.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

The project's report was published in Energy Futures, widely read then because of a dramatic rise in world oil prices, the emergent geopolitics of oil, and the sudden realization that fossil fuel sources are finite. What oil reserves were left would be become more difficult and too expensive to extract, the authors argued. Energy prices did not continue to grow at the exponential rate of the late 1970s; so some of the impetus to conserve was dampened in the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1988, the federal government cut the budget for renewable energy by 80 percent.

In the 1970s, the oil embargo and the meteoric rise in oil prices created a crisis in fossil fuel-generated energy, a crisis that sparked public interest in energy conservation and renewable energy sources. This broad-based enthusiasm for saving finite nonrenewable fossil fuels coincided with a more idealistic alternative energy movement to "design with nature." A graduate student in engineering at the height of this movement, I was inspired to develop a JL S S prototype solar sunspace for my thesis topic.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Saudi Arabia's King Fahd received the Iranian petroleum minister in the autumn of 1986 and the two countries agreed to OPEC arrangements for boosting oil prices to $18 a barrel. The $18 price brought economic relief to oil-producing states like Texas, which were the key to Bush's political base. SOURCES: Pacific News Service, 12/21/87, "Bush Had Oil Policy Interest in Promoting Iran Arms Deals," by Peter Dale Scott.

SOURCE: Foreign Policy, Winter Quarter, 1976, "Why oil prices Go Up— The Past: We Pushed them," by Vivian H. Oppenheim. UPDATE: It appears that the harsh lessons of the seventies have been forgotten in the nineties. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote (7/4/96) that we responded to the 1973-79 oil crises by raising taxes on gasoline to reduce consumption but we are now lowering them; we were shrinking the size of automobiles but we are now upsizing them; we lowered the speed limits but we are now raising them.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

The purpose of OPEC, a cartel, is to control the production of oil, and to establish favorable oil prices for the member nations. Most OPEC countries, such as Libya and Saudi Arabia, are in the Middle East or northern Africa, but Indonesia and Venezuela are members- as well. fa OPEC was formed in the early 1960s, but had little impact before 1973. Then, to punish the United States and several Western nations for supporting Israel in a war against Egypt (see Arab-Israeli conflict), the Arab members of OPEC placed an embargo on the sale of oil to the United States and some of its allies.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

The purpose of OPEC, a cartel, is to control the production of oil, and to establish favorable oil prices for the member nations. Most OPEC countries, such as Libya and Saudi Arabia, are in the Middle East or northern Africa, but Indonesia and Venezuela are members as well. fa OPEC was formed in the early 1960s, but had little impact before 1973. Then, to punish the United States and several Western nations for supporting Israel in a war against Egypt {see Arab-Israeli conflict), the Arab members of OPEC placed an embargo on the sale of oil to the United States and some of its allies.

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