Dave Cohen, ASPO-USA / Energy Bulletin. We are now being bombarded with ludicrous suggestions about how to get out of a crisis brought about by a gradual peak & decline of world oil production, a trend which has been evident for three long years now.

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Fuel-price protests spread across Europe
Lorry drivers converge on London in fuel protest
High oil prices will hurt trade
U.S. small business crunched by fuel prices
Australia: Waking from the dream

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Soaring fuel costs whittle away at Asia's cheap-labour advantage
Fuel takes a withering toll on truckers
Bad news for Detroit: Miles per gallon
Auto industry feels the pain of tight credit

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Brazil: Ethanol vs biodiversity
Despite doubts, Brazil pins hopes on sustainable sugarcane ethanol
Report: Effects of ethanol on Texas food and feed

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Rockefellers seek change at Exxon
Rare peek inside our Fort Knox of black gold
Senators question top oil execs (video)
Utah climate report adds more gloom
Midwest's message: Hands off our lakes

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We're not yet at Hubbert's peak - call it instead 'de facto peak oil'
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)

Gene Logsdon, Organic To Be. With corn prices triple the historical levels, growing corn for your own table use looks more sensible than ever, especially when it is not easy to find organic corn to buy.

Staff, Energy Bulletin. It's the meat-eating, stupid
Sowing the seeds of a global revolution (guerilla gardenering)
Sustainable communities (otherwise - "dead doors that lead to nowhere")
Transition Town sprouts in Peterborough, Ontario

Staff, Energy Bulletin. For Texas farmers, production costs are spiraling along with crop prices
Lofty prices for fertilizer put farmers in a squeeze
Energy giants smell windfall from sulphur

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price "head fake"?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Japan blames speculators for oil hike
Saudi Aramco to spend $129 billion from 2009 to 2014
Asking Opec to solve the oil crisis misses the burning point
IEA says optimistic to think oil price will fall much

Staff, Energy Bulletin. George Monbiot: Dear Saudi Arabia, only you can save the planet
ASPO Switzerland - first general assembly
Supply-demand imbalance boosts oil prices
South Africa: The end of oil is nigh

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Biomimicry: Are humans smarter than sea sponges?
Electric cars = the next mass market technology

Staff, Energy . U.S. studies: Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund
Crisis talks on global food prices

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Dallas Morning News: The end of cheap oil?
Peak oil on Dutch television
Australian headlines: If only they'd read The Oil Drum

Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power. This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Amish relatives. This visit was colored by my acute awareness of civilization's collapse and the ramifications of that reality for most of us.