From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog

With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin

Saturday, August 20, 2022

From Jenna Orkin

Families start to flee Zaporizhzhia as nuclear plant tensions rise

 

The TVA is dumping a mountain of coal ash in Black south Memphis

Japan launches nationwide competition to boost alcohol consumption

Contest asks young adults for ideas to revitalise popularity of alcoholic drinks after big fall in tax revenues

Venezuela’s Oil Exports Drop By More than A Third In July

Shell cuts output at German Rhineland refinery due to drought

US B-52s and fighters from what may soon be NATO's newest member teamed up for a first-of-its-kind operation

Turkey's central bank just made a surprise rate cut even as inflation hovers near 80%, driving the lira near record lows against the dollar

High oil prices will drive Saudi Arabia's economic growth to outpace the US this year, IMF says

Russia is now the 3rd-biggest market for yuan transactions outside of mainland China as sanctions block dollar, euro payments

China's real-estate market is in such a slump that cities are offering discounts for group purchases and tasking civil servants with selling apartments

Even as the West tries to wean itself off Russian oil, Moscow has found itself yet another buyer: Myanmar

 

Jenna Orkin at 5:17 AM
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