[{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/4549","bookmark_desc":"The short-selling ban and the future of energy supplies","bookmark_notes":"The Oil Drum with commentary on some probable negative consequences for energy markets as a result of the SEC's rule change on short selling.","ub_date":"1229033060","bookmark_date":"1222071854","tags_str":"commentary<\/a>, economics<\/a>, energy<\/a>, finance<\/a>, financial_crisis<\/a>","se_id":"the-short-selling-ban-and-the-future-of-energy-supplies","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/4617","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum on the financial crisis","bookmark_notes":"","ub_date":"1229033061","bookmark_date":"1223453160","tags_str":"blogclip<\/a>, commentary<\/a>, economics<\/a>, financial_crisis<\/a>, money<\/a>, postsocialmedian<\/a>, toread<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-on-the-financial-crisis","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/4543","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum | Offshore Drilling Debate","bookmark_notes":"The Oil Drum, always an excellent resource, offers some analysis of the recent House bill on offshore drilling. The permitted range (betwen 50 and 100 miles offshore) is not believed to contain very much oil. It's not a particularly attractive deal for anyone, but especially not the oil companies, who stand to lose significant tax benefits. One oil industry representative says, \"You would just open a door to an empty room at the end of a very long hallway.\"","ub_date":"1229034167","bookmark_date":"1221862331","tags_str":"commentary<\/a>, energy<\/a>, environment<\/a>, news<\/a>, oil<\/a>, policy<\/a>, politics<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-offshore-drilling-debate","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/3941","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum | Herman Daly: Towards A Steady-State Economy","bookmark_notes":"Taxing what we want less of (depletion and pollution), and ceasing to tax what we want more of (income, value added) would seem reasonable\u2014as the bumper sticker puts it, \u201ctax bads, not goods\u201d.","ub_date":"1228866895","bookmark_date":"1210667741","tags_str":"2008<\/a>, accounting<\/a>, advertising<\/a>, article<\/a>, commons<\/a>, daly<\/a>, ecology<\/a>, economics<\/a>, energy<\/a>, fairtrade<\/a>, More...<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-herman-daly-towards-a-steady-state-economy","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/3540","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum | Powering Civilization to 2050","bookmark_notes":"My basic goal is to get to a somewhat defensible story of how civilization could get to 2050 in reasonable shape, despite the problems of climate change, peak oil, global population growth, etc.","ub_date":"1228866760","bookmark_date":"1208537308","tags_str":"energy<\/a>, scenario<\/a>, solar<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-powering-civilization-to-2050","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/3481","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum | The Fallacy of Reversibility","bookmark_notes":"Industrial agriculture is likely to be stronger and more profitable when oil prices are high, not weaker. So the reversalist future of local food production on smaller farms with higher labor input will not come to pass as a result of peak oil.","ub_date":"1228866760","bookmark_date":"1208537308","tags_str":"agriculture<\/a>, economics<\/a>, energy<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-the-fallacy-of-reversibility","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/2431","bookmark_desc":"The Oil Drum | Fermenting the Food Supply","bookmark_notes":"The core problem is that gasoline price elasticity in the US is about -0.05, versus the -0.7 price elasticity for food consumption by poor consumers. This makes clear who is going to win the bidding war for food versus biofuels in a free market.","ub_date":"1228866760","bookmark_date":"1208537308","tags_str":"biofuel<\/a>, economics<\/a>, energy<\/a>, food<\/a>","se_id":"the-oil-drum-fermenting-the-food-supply","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/story\/2006\/10\/8\/123724\/325","bookmark_desc":"How not to revitalize Main Street","bookmark_notes":"A town official in the US Midwest reflects on the unwritten \"rules\" of small-town downtown revitalization projects. The main lesson: people won't even think about driving less, and thus parking trumps all other concerns.","ub_date":"1229032973","bookmark_date":"1199911406","tags_str":"city<\/a>, energy<\/a>, environment<\/a>, local<\/a>, planning<\/a>","se_id":"how-not-to-revitalize-main-street","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/story\/2006\/11\/15\/83857\/186","bookmark_desc":"Latest debate on peak oil","bookmark_notes":"TheOilDrum.com responds to the newly released study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). CERA predicts that we will have enough oil to meet demand through the end of the 21st century; TOD disagrees (note that CERA is paid by the oil companies).","ub_date":"1229032967","bookmark_date":"1199911394","tags_str":"energy<\/a>, news<\/a>, peak_oil<\/a>","se_id":"latest-debate-on-peak-oil","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/2516","bookmark_desc":"Peak oil and global population: a grim assessment","bookmark_notes":"A very grim look at the numbers around peak oil and world population growth. Hopefully this guy is wrong. If he's not, things are going to get extremely miserable for all of us in about twenty years.","ub_date":"1229032950","bookmark_date":"1199911369","tags_str":"bad_news<\/a>, energy<\/a>, environment<\/a>, international<\/a>, latoc<\/a>, oil<\/a>, peak<\/a>, peak_oil<\/a>, poulation<\/a>","se_id":"peak-oil-and-global-population-a-grim-assessment","user_name":"nbr","user_img":"cartoon_scowl.jpg","user_count":"1"}]