August 28, 2007 -- The tentative introduction of solar water heaters in Trinidad and Tobago, years after such systems have been commonplace in nearby Barbados, reflects the slowly dawning realization that even hydrocarbon exporting countries need to develop renewable enrgy resources.

This is a positiion I have championed in Peak Oil Paradigm Shift.(Page 98)

"Producing countries should strive to conserve hydrocarbons for later (and more profitable) sale as the scarcity intensifies. The economic wisdom of such current policies as conveeting natural gas either directly or via electricity to steel and aluminium in smelters should be challenged; especiallt when the energy for such industries could be much more sensibly supplied by hydroelectric power or biomass sources such as Russia's use offast growing eucalyptusto ptoduce charcoal for some of their smelters."

For more on this Trinidad Express story go to:
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article?id=161195814

BIlaal Abdullah

The reality of the much more efficient conversion of sunlight to sucrose in tropical sugarcane versus temperate corn will be increasingly felt as the global need for bio-fuels rises.  The less developed "Global South" has the climatic advantage in the quest for a sustainable energy model.  Brazil's success or failure will have serious consequences for other countries trying to cash in on their biofuel potential e.g. Malaysia's palm oil-biodisesel ventures.

Bilaal Abdullah -  Authour - Peak Oil Paradigm Shift

The coming post-Peak Oil period goes by many names and author Michael Klare's article declaring the End of "Easy Oil' is one contender.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Peak Oil's imminence is producing such clear signs that denial is becoming increasingly difficult. Geopolitical upheaval is certain as the scramble for hydrocarbon resources gets deadly serious.

Read the whole article at:
http://www.alternet.org/story/60086