All Posts Tagged With: "peak oil"
Second thoughts about the Pickens Plan
I’m rapidly losing faith in T. Boone Pickens and his mission to change the tenor of the idiotic debate over energy in this country.
I already expressed mild misgivings the week he unveiled the Pickens Plan. But I gave him points for…
4Aug2008 | Desidooru Saloon | 0 comments | ContinuedHas Oil Topped Out?
Has oil finally topped out?
Yesterday, the price fell another $4 - to $136. Still, of course, not far from its all-time high. But sliding…
“Oil is a bubble ready to pop,” say some analysts. “No, oil is merely responding to supply…
18Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedSaudi Arabia’s power struggle
America is not alone when it comes to Peak Oil versus cornucopians. Saudi Arabia has its own factions, each led by former executives at Saudi Aramco.
Today’s edition of Mr. Murdoch’s new rag spins a pretty good yarn of Sadad al-Husseini — who’s…
30Jun2008 | Desidooru Saloon | 0 comments | ContinuedMidnight Oil
For a useful way to think about energy exports and prices, Dallas based geologist Jeffrey Brown points to the current situation with global rice supplies. Brown among others worked on the Export Land Model (ELM), a model that reflects the…
25Jun2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedEnergy Q&A Part I: Peak Oil and Oil Price Spikes
Q: “I saw you on Fox Business News. You said that you think the price of oil is too high and will come down. You have been a long-time ‘Peak Oil’ guy. So why do you think that oil prices…
19Jun2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | ContinuedGood Grief
The world keeps turning and the resources get used up. It’s really quite simple.
Despite that fact, the debates rage over Peak Oil, Peak Food and peak everything else. It’s about as sensible as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. So the…
8Jun2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedBig Oil Digs Deep to Solve a Growing Problem: Where Will Tomorrow’s Oil Come From?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading petroleum exporter. Officially, it has reserves of about 260 billion barrels of crude oil - approximately 24% of the world’s total proven petroleum reserves.
But Saudi Arabia has a problem. And it’s…
24Apr2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedOne Sure-Fire Sign That Gas Prices are Heading Higher
The U.S. Energy Department said earlier this week that it expects average monthly gasoline prices to peak at $3.60 a gallon this spring, since the high prices will serve to curb demand.
For investors who are tired of feeling like they’ve…
11Apr2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedPeak Oil: From Pemex to Petrobras
Oil and Energy
Mexico is struggling with a very important question about its future. Does the country want to be Brazil or Venezuela?
On the one hand, you have authoritarian rule and government-controlled natural resources. On the other, you have a liberalization…
3Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | Continued-
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