Kevin (who, like me, says he hasn’t written anything on peak oil lately) links to this LA Times story: Production at Mexico’s largest oil field is slipping faster than projected and officials see few options for quickly replacing the main source of the nation’s oil riches. The struggles of the world’s No. 5 oil producer [...]

Newsweek International has an article online detailing seven methods of conservation for the future: When a slump in business travelers forced Ulrich Römer to cut costs at his family-owned Hotel am Stadtpark in Hilden, Germany, in 2002, he found that he didn’t have to skimp on comfort for his guests. Instead, he replaced hundreds of [...]

According to the International Herald Tribune (hat tip to Laura Rozen) it seems like that’s the case: Saudi Arabia, which benefited immensely from record oil prices last year, has sent signals in the past two weeks that it is committed to keeping oil at about $50 a barrel — down about a third from the [...]

The Associated Press is reporting that Gov. Bill Richardson is trading up to an ethanol-fueled SUV: Gov. Bill Richardson’s hybrid sport utility vehicle just wasn’t big enough. So the 6-foot-2 Richardson has traded it in for a bigger SUV that can run on a blend of gasoline and ethanol, a spokesman told the Albuquerque Journal [...]

Via Slashdot, I see that world oil production peaked last year: Princeton University geology Professor Kenneth Deffeyes has been studying world petroleum production data and has come to the conclusion that the world hit peak oil last December 16, 2005. If he is correct, total world oil production will never surpass what was produced last [...]

According to their latest ad campaign they are: Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the era of easy oil is over. What we all do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and beyond. So, um, [...]

This post over at Jim Kunstler’s place reminds me of Silver City for some reason: The towns along way — Salem, Granville, Fair Haven — may be even sadder than the farms. All civic vitality seems to have been drained out of them by a persistent wasting disease. Little of any value has been built [...]

I attended a forum on peak oil this weekend here in Silver City. The forum was informative, in that it explained the problem of peak oil, and also some of its complications (e.g. global warming and overpopulation). The problem with the event, in my mind, was the format. I think the overall thrust is a [...]