In the News

To keep a track on oil prices, one of the best sites is WTRG Economics

2006

22/9/2006 (BBC) Biofuels: Green Energy or Grim Reaper?

7/8/2006 (BBC) Oil reaches high after BP closure

8/2/2006 (Guardian) Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy [see also here]

2/2/2006 (Farmers Weekly) Fertiliser prices soar as plants remain shut

2/2/2006 (Guardian) It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both

26/1/2006 (BBC) Energy gap: crisis for humanity

20/1/2006 (Independent) What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis

18/1/2006 (Independent) Bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out

2/1/2006 (Energy Bulletin) Kunstler: Predictions for 2006

2005

19/12/2005 (BBC) Costly commodities spark global change (Now the world is realising that the era of cheap oil and other raw materials is over )

6/12/2005 (Guardian) The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis

25/11/2005 (Guardian) Take the clean, green alternative over macho nuclear rod-waving

22/11/2005 (BBC) Is UK oil output running on empty?

20/10/2005 (Guardian) There is nothing green about Blair's nuclear dream [C0² emmissions from nuclear power]

4/10/2005 (Guardian) Back to the future [Nuclear Power]

May/June 2005 (The Bulletin) Oil: caveat empty

27/9/2005 (Guardian) It is better to cry wolf now than to wait until the oil has run out

8/9/2005 (Guardian) It always lies below. Decivilisation is not as far away as we like to think

25/8/05 (BBC) Has oil production peaked? (Talking Point)

15/8/05 (Guardian) How high can the oil price go?

15/7/05 (BBC) How much oil do we really have?

2004

14/9/04 (BBC) China reports soaring oil imports

24/8/04 (Guardian) An answer in Somerset. We should all now be learning how to live without oil.

3/8/04 (BBC) OPEC 'unable to pump more oil'

31/7/04 (BBC) Crude oil price sets fresh record

6/7/04 (BBC) Supply fears push up oil prices

6/7/04 (Guardian) Driving into the abyss

1/7/04 (BBC) Oil prices surge on output fears

15/6/04 (BP) BP Statistical Review 2004 released

8/6/04 (Guardian) Oil is running out, but the west would rather wage wars than consider other energy sources

7/9/04 (BBC) Is the world's oil running out fast?

18/5/04 (National Geographic) The end of cheap oil

13/5/04 (BBC) Oil supply 'cannot match demand'

19/4/04 (BBC) When the last oil well runs dry [actually about peak oil]

14/4/04 (BBC) Norway prepares for dry North Sea

31/3/04 (BBC) OPEC pushes for higher oil prices

31/3/04 (BBC) US petrol prices hit record highs

25/3/04 (BBC) Big China oilfield "running low"

24/3/04 (Guardian) Rising oil prices and a weak dollar could shatter the global economy

23/3/04 (BBC) US petrol prices at an all-time high

17/3/04 (BBC) Oil prices surge to a 13 year high

10/3/04 (Guardian) Wind power suffers blow

26/2/04 (BBC) Petrol fears spark oil price rise