one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

Interesting fuel alternative in development: bugs that eat waste and excrete crude oil. Yes, really.

What we are seeing in this desperate horse-trading is the endgame of the oil age

Saudis pumping more oil is a stopgap.

this longing for 'solutions', strikes me as a free-floating wish for magical rescue remedies, for techno-fixes that will allow us to make a hassle-free switch from fossil hydrocarbon power to something less likely to destroy the Earth's ecosystems

Kunstler on wishful thinking