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[FT Energy Source] FT.com | FT Energy Source | Oil price rise warnings gather pace ...: Ever since oil prices began their plummet from July's peak, concerns about investment in ever more difficult oil sources have been growing. The IEA last month warned that falling investment could lead to an oil supply crunch/price rise .

[WSJ.com: Environmental Capital] Green Ink: Forget Peak Oil; Peak Gasoline is Already Here: Chinese oil companies may partner with Shell to make a bid for oil development in Northern Iraq, the WSJ reports. As well as Kazakhstan””Bloomberg reports China will loan the Central Asian country $10 billion in exchange for a stake in .

[ASPO-USA: Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas] Briefs week of February 23, 2009: The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a study in 2001 that showed a peak and decline of uranium supply, with a peak occurring in 2024, assuming all resources, including the highest cost resources, can be extracted. (2/20, #17)

[Fabius Maximus] Poor peak oil research, more evidence of a serious problem with ...: theory.  Everyone  have meet so far has considered this false with regard to the developed nations and well-managed OPEC nations (e.g., Brazil, Saudi).  Some infrastructure is old, much is new.  Almost all is maintained adequately.  Simmons mentions this often, but has never provided a shred of supporting evidence.  His specific assertion (mentioned above) about US refineries is bizarre, unless he defines “core units” in some idiosyncratic way.

[The Oil Drum: Europe - Analysis and Discussion of the European Energy Gap and Peak Oil] The Oil Drum: Europe | The cost of wind, the price of wind, the ...: No interest, no special tax deal,nothing.let us say that the site is a good one that produces 40 percent capacity factor.I believe that such a system would be represented in all prowind ads and pr as a 250 megawatt system. Very roughly how much more would be needed for an average or at least typical length transmission line to move this power to a suitable market?I am talking the amount of money that has to be spent by writing checks as the bills come in, not the money needed after getting a special deal because I'm in the wind business.Let us assume that the vendors also are not getting any special considerations above and beyond what most other manufacturing businesses get.Let's also assume no particular problems with permits or right of ways,etc.

[The Rates Blog] Blogging On Interest Rates, Economics & Business in New Zealand: Here's the counter argument to the FT's piece from a few days ago that China was stuck in a “dollar trap” and was still funding America's deficits. Jeff Nielson at Seeking Alpha says there was a US$211.4 billion outflow of capital from the United States in .

[Comments for The Big Picture] Comment on No Housing Recovery Before Further Price Declines by ...: In answer to a question from lastoilshock.com, Mr Birol denied there was any contradiction between the two predictions, because any short-term crisis would be solely due to above-ground factors: “What we are saying is we could have a supply crunch to 2015 if we do not see enough investments coming to the markets, if we do not see production growing at a level to compensate the declines and meet the demand, and if the oil demand growth is not dampened in the OECD countries, China and India.”

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: May 22, 2009: IEA chief economist Fatih Birol told The Associated Press that oil companies have canceled at least $170 billion of planned investments -- including $100 billion this year -- as they seek to save money amid the financial and economic crisis.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Europe | Fire or Ice? The role of peak fossil fuels ...: Given the amount of climate change research now being conducted and the rapidity of the observed changes, which in turn are fueling efforts to speed further research, there is no doubt that IPCC Assessments are going to continue to contain conclusions and SPMs based on research and data that has been updated and/or superseded even if that research and data were current when the final draft of the Assessment was submitted for review and final adopion (a process that takes well over a year by itself).

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