Oil on the Brain

Now reading: Oil on the Brain by the NY Times writer Lisa Margonelli.

New Links: glazr, sphere, pageflakes

I have found some new tools and added some links to this page to energy-related news and blog posts.

Grazr provides a widget that provides interactive interface for blog posts. I listed my favorite blogs on Technorati, and then provided this list of blogs (OPML XML file) in a Glazr widget (which is also embedded in this page). I also put the RSS feed of recent posts in my Technorati blog list in Glazr.

Also, Sphere is a service that searches for related blog posts, with sometimes mixed results compared with the more consistent Google News and Google Blogs.

Finally, pageflakes provides a way for feeds to be aggregated.

Solar Power 2006

The videos from this conference have been placed online:

http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/eqtv/061016/

The energy speech Bush should have given

Well written summary of previous assertions and the current situation for America's energy supply and demand.

http://pipeline.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/the-state-of-our-energy-policy/

False Signals of Declining Scarcity

This article

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/reynolds/MineralEconomy.htm (digg)
says that for certain types of finite resources (where there is uncertainty in the remaining amount), the market can result in a low price for the resource until at some point, there is a correction leading to a price spike. Is this the case for oil today? Is this theory accepted in academic economics?

Here is a related post:

http://thenewbusinessworld.blogspot.com/2007/01/low-oil-price-rising-concern-of-oil.html
But it seems to say that the decrease is due to cyclical factors (high price => more wells => high supply => low price => ... ), which is different than the above article.