Do you want to know how to be more fuel efficient? The U.S. government, specifically the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), operates fueleconomy.gov to provide resources that help you choose more wisely and be more fuel efficient.
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Q&A session with Ken Verosub and Jeremy Gilbert immediately following the presentations they gave and which were broadcast in immediately prior Technosanity Podcast episodes.

Technosanity #17: QA session with Ken Verosub, Jeremy Gilbert

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A presentation at ASPO-USA 2008 by Mr. Jeremy J Gilbert, Managing Director, Barrelmore Ltd Jeremy Gilbert. Jeremy is the recently retired Chief Petroleum Engineer from British Petroleum (BP) where he was responsible for the company’s worldwide petroleum engineering performance and associated research and development program. He joined BP in 1964.

Technosanity #16: Peak Oil Global Overview, […]

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“We have to leave oil before oil leaves us.” ‘Petroapocalypse Now’ is a story about cheap oil and the biggest party humanity has ever known.
We have built our world around the car & the airplane. Has enabled ‘us’ to colonize the entire planet. These cars and planes etc would be useless lumps […]

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This is a presentation given by Naomi Klein equating the financial meltdown of August/September/October 2008 with her general thesis of the Shock Doctrine of Disaster Capitalism. This thesis cuts to the heart of the reshaping of whole societies, using disasters as a means to justify enacting societal changes which would normally be untenable but […]

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Petroleum 101
Mr. Ken Verosub, Geology Professor, University of California, Davis
http://www.aspo-usa.com/aspousa4/ConfirmedSpeakers.cfm?bid=522
slides: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/proceedings/Verosub_Ken_Petro_101_ASPOUSA2008.pdf
Specialist in paleomagnetism of sediments, the history of the geomagnetic field. He presents an introductory lecture in Petroleum Geology giving an overview of how geology & biology came together to create the gift of oil.

Technosanity #14: Petroleum & Peak Oil 101
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Peter Wells.. Neftex Petroleum Consultants, Ltd
bio: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/ConfirmedSpeakers.cfm?bid=510
slides: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/proceedings/Wells_Peter_OPEC_ASPOUSA2008.pdf
Oil geologist and other work in the oil industry in the Middle East, former Soviet Union, West Aftrica, etc. Currently working as a consultant with one contract being Toyota. Toyota had studied and internalized Peak Oil long ago, and 6 yrs later developed the Prius.

Technosanity #13: […]

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Last month I had the immense pleasure to meet the ZuumCraft team, talk with the founder (Tom Boyd), and take test ride a Zuumer. Seems a few other people have also taken test rides and have written some articles.

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MoveOn sent me a letter about my blog and suggested something I could post to it.. basically they’re sending out a list of points for us to ponder, so that we don’t look at the news about Obama being ahead in the polls and get lazy. As they say anything can happen in the […]

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The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil is a longish article by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH which goes at length to claim “Peak Oil” is a hoax. He has some interesting arguments, which I don’t buy, and want to analyse a bit. He is a Professor of Economics at Drake Univ., has written books, and from […]

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