Why good people do bad things
Category: oil
Fatih Birol Challenged
This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.
At Last, A Date
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.
Majesty, We Have Gone Mad
An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster
Leave It In The Ground
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
What if the Oil Runs Out?
Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.
Still Drilling
The rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud.
A Well of Hypocrisy
One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.
Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Crying Sheep
We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply
In Bed With the Killers
BP is working with a genocidal government
Feeding Cars, Not People
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
Living with the Age of Entropy
Is a life without fossil fuel possible?
Losing the Battle with Entropy
Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies
The Bottom of the Barrel
Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it.
In the Crocodile’s Mouth
Blair is appeasing Bush partly in order to get a share of the world’s diminishing supplies of oil
Trouble in the Pipeline
The corporations have asked us to trust them. But even the paragon of “corporate social responsibility” is saying one thing and doing quite another.
America’s Pipe Dream
The war against terrorism is also a struggle for oil and regional control