Less than 6 years after an Australian senior energy bureaucrat announced in a Parliamentary hearing that new technologies can overcome peak oil (“if the price of eggs is high enough, even the…
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Australian ABC TV falls into oil and climate trap of unconventional oil
First it was Alan Kohler getting his ideas from a Citi bank report on the death of peak oil, now it is Tony Jones accepting advice from peak oil denier Yergin that…
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Science or fiction? Here, ABC TV star journalist A. Kohler is seen testing synthetic fuel produced from Australia’s vast deposits of kerogen (graphics: Ian McPherson) It is more than a month ago…
No number crunching in Alan Kohler opinion piece on premature peak oil death
This article is on Alan Kohler ‘s piece “The death of peak oil” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/kohler-oil-reserves-shift-global-markets/3859118 Contents: (1) Too many peaks to handle (2) US shale oil production and projections (3) Tough structural transformations…
Car addicted Sindney destroys bus ramp near rail hub as tollway debt increases 60 pct at least
This web-site continues to monitor the disconnect between toll-way expansions in Australia and global crude oil supplies. The latest peak-oil ignorant action in car-addicted Sydney is the demolition of a bus ramp…
M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline
What has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil declines shown…
Ethanol blended E10 would take 14 years to replace ULP in Australia
On past trends of growing ethanol use in cars it would take 14 years to replace all unleaded petrol presently used in Australia. Any traffic growth, e.g. caused by the current ambitious…
Australian Energy White (Wash) Paper 2011: peak oil denial not yet peaked
It is unbelievable. We are now in year #7 of peak oil, and a newly released draft of an Energy White Paper of the Australian government, together with a suite of other…
APEC energy intensity reductions: what it means for Australian oil consumption
At the APEC summit in November 2011 we find in the Honolulu declaration under “Promoting green growth”: We will also take the following steps to promote our green growth goals: Aspire to…
Qantas hit by invisible hand of peak oil
Qantas grounds all flights 29/10/2011 http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/qantas-grounds-all-flights-20111029-1mpao.html These problems don’t come unexpectedly Qantas cuts staff, flights to counter fuel price hit 30/3/2011 “The price of Singapore jet fuel has risen from around $US88…