Peak Oil News

The U.S. shale boom will send "shockwaves" through the global oil trade over the next five years, benefiting the nation's refiners and displacing OPEC as the driver of supply growth, the IEA said.

4) Renewable energy sources like solar power and wind power are cheaper than oil and natural gas .

Pipelines run from the offshore docking station to four liquefied natural gas tanks at a Liquefied Natural Gas facility in Cove Point, Md.

Like whale oil in the 1860s, oil today has become uncompetitive -- even at low prices -- and that will only become truer with time.

Writer, speaker, energy analyst and leading sustainability activist Randy Udall has agreed to headline Transition OurWay's Green Home and Efficiency Expo, June 1. "Our energy group is ecstatic," said Transition's Paula James, whose invitation persuaded the Carbondale resident to come to Ridgway.

With U.S. oil imports hitting a 17-year low , the mainstream media has awoken to the fact that, as I pointed out three years ago , peak oil is not happening anytime soon.

Contrary to what would seem logical, estimates of oil and natural gas reserves may increase as they are depleted, as the new USGS assessment of recoverable oil reserves in the greater Bakken Basin shows.

Advanced biofuels - liquid fuels synthesized from the sugars in cellulosic biomass - offer a clean, green and renewable alternative to gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

Charles Mann offers a big story in the latest issue of the Atlantic . It's 11,000 words, and it's based around an audacious premise: the end of energy scarcity.

No one is questioning the fact that we have either reached or will soon reach "peak oil"; that existing fields are being depleted at the rapid rate of 7 percent a year, and that the search is on for "unconventional oil" as alternative forms of energy are slow to reach critical mass.

By Robert U. Ayres , INSEAD Emeritus Professor of Economics and Political Science and Technology Management , The Novartis Chair in Management and the Environment, Emeritus.

A new study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next few years to "protect liberties." A decade ago, the notion that anyone other than a few thousand fringe extremists would contemplate violent revolution was unthinkable.

Those who study together can also change together. Here are our recommendations for good books, videos, and online resources for stepping forward to reverse climate change.

The Malthusian specter of rising demand and shrinking supply has been replaced by a new realization that, for most commodities, demand is flat and supply is rising fast.

In The Matrix, there is a moment towards the end of the movie where the main character, Neo, gets shot and apparently dies, only to revive, cheating death and opening the possibility of a complete paradigm shift for that world.

Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage - household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests - has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn.

Okay, I'm going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow.

Some of the best commentary out there is The Atlantic magazine . It tilts left, but its recent essay asking "what if we never run out of oil?" goes against liberal orthodoxy - at least in part.

Forget the Arab Spring . Islamists have already hijacked it. But, as if internally extinguishing the hope of democracy isn't enough, dark clouds are now gathering to blot out the economic 'sun' for the oil-powered Middle East states, ushering in - courtesy of the West's technological fracking 'miracle' - a new Arab winter.

The United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, stored deep under the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, according to new data the Obama administration released Tuesday.