The Oil Drum: Europe

What videos have you seen that you think others might be interested in? Here are a few I found:

From Peak Moment Television, this is Matt Simmons' 26 minute talk at the ASPO convention called, "Oil and Gas--The Next Meltdown:"

Ed's Note: The intent of this thread is to combine two different discussion items:

1. A one-hour special on the oil situation, The Hunt for Black Gold. It features a discussion of peak oil, an interview with Sarah Palin, Matt Simmons, Randy Udall, and a closer look at oil company profits, and a discussion of alternatives. It was shown on CNBC yesterday, and will be shown again today, Thursday, Sept. 25 at 1 a.m. ET and on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 10 p.m. ET.

2. Heading Out's discussion of Day 2 of the ASPO-USA conference, which can be found below the fold.

This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère

A Matt Simmons phone interview on CNBC, in which Matt sounds a very loud and certain clarion call about our direction--calling it (potentially) "The Great American Disaster." I think it is safe to say that Matt has gotten pretty pessimistic, even doomerish lately.

Under the fold, more from Richard Heinberg with a great review of accelerating events, Phil Hart talks peak oil on Aussie TV, KrisCan interviews Andre Angelantoni about post-peak life, and David Bell of ASPO-Oz appears on Bloomberg.

Bob Hirsch talking "Worst Case Scenarios" for Oil...as in "maybe $500/bbl" in the next few years...with increasing uncertainty/volatility (yes, that's right, oil could snap back down to $100/bbl, but then snap back up even higher again in a few months...without even considering geopolitics and other "above ground factors," which of course we must.)

More under the fold--a video of the House Democrat(s?) Call for Nationalization of US Refineries, Matt Simmons on the "Truth about Offshore Drilling," a quality interview with Professor Michael Klare on "The Geopolitics of Energy" with Jim Puplava of Financial Sense, an effective 30 second Aussie commerical "Gas is "F*-ing Expensive," and a Bill O'Reilly vid to make your head explode.

(The Simmons video is 7 mins). Anyone have a link to T. Boone's comments (or other peak oil media) this week? If so, put it in the comments.

The ELM (and the WSJ article yesterday) makes Yahoo Finance:

Henry Blodget and Aaron Task. Well worth watching!! Here's a link to the article (from which this video comes, that links to TOD in the last sentence).

Under the fold, more videos from TOD's own Rembrandt Koppelaar, Matt Simmons, Bob Hirsch, Amory Lovins, Randy Udall, Marvin Odum, and others...

When I read James Howard Kunstler's (JHK) book The Long Emergency, it had a profound impact on me. I had been aware for many years that "running out of oil" was a serious matter. After all, I took on the challenge of peak oil in my graduate thesis in 1995. But my focus was more on finding a source that could replace oil as it ran out. Reading The Long Emergency was the first time it really hit me that I was missing a lot of key pieces of the picture.

Short video from CNBC with John Hofmeister explaining why peak oil isn't a problem, and where Matt Simmons went wrong. They also get in a dig about the "religion" of climate change at the end.

And here's Matt's response (text not video): http://www.cnbc.com/id/23728987

Matt Simmons was on Fast Money (on CNBC) Friday afternoon. Here's the clip.