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Deep Water Drilling and Expensive Oil

May 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Byron: This blow out in the Gulf of Mexico absolutely should not have happened. Yes, it could have been prevented. But we are already on the other side of Peak Oil. Oil is going to keep getting more expensive and eventually it could get too expensive for life to be ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Oil | 11 comments


Deepwater Disaster Doesn’t Change Need for Deepwater Drilling

May 21st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Gary Gibson: Byron, can you start off by telling Whiskey readers a little about why we’re searching for deep sea oil in the first place? I mean, we know about peak oil already. But… is it really THAT bad that we’re having to search for oil buried beneath 12,000 feet ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Oil | 14 comments


The Peak Oil Side of Volcanoes

Apr 22nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
This Icelandic volcano is not just a quaint story about some faraway place. We need to keep an eye on Iceland and its grumpy volcanoes. The historic record is filled with Icelandic volcano blasts that wrecked European civilization. It goes back at least to the days of the Roman Empire. ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Oil | 12 comments


The Future of the World’s Energy Supply

Apr 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
What is the future of the world’s energy supply? Here she is, in all her haze gray glory. Meet the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration. What is this floating giant? Well, in the big scheme of things Inspiration is the future of the world’s oil supply. Inspiration, and other ships much like her, is the ...read more

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Peak Oil and Unpaid Mortgages Will Kill Suburbia

Apr 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Oil
In a place like upstate New York, north of Albany, where April is more generally known as “mud season,” and the wait for “ice-out” on the big lakes takes forever, and on frigid nights the windigos steal through the tops of the tall pines — it would seem foolish to ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Housing, Oil | 31 comments


Could Namibia Be Ten Times Better Than Brazil for Oil?

Feb 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
I logged 9,814 air miles. Took four different flights. Spent a total of 54 hours traveling. All to meet with a man they call “Mr. GO Deep…” “Mr. GO Deep” is the go to guy in offshore oil development. Oil companies pay him HUGE consulting fees in hopes to identify the ...read more

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Cheap Oil is Gone, and That’s Good News

Jan 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Over the next year or two, you will likely find yourself paying a LOT more at the gas pump. Big changes are taking place in the oil industry. With increased global demand and declining supply, easy oil is not so easy anymore. Everything is about to get more expensive. From gasoline ...read more

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Oil Prices Will End the Futility Economy

Jan 5th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Oil
On the first business day of the new year and oil traded above $80 a barrel, which means the price has re-entered the danger zone where it can crush industrial economies. This is a central element of the predicament we find ourselves in. The US economy is essentially a Happy ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Oil | 36 comments


Climate, Oil, Reality and Delusion

Dec 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
Against a greater welter and flow of incoherence jerking the nation this way and that way en route to collapse comes "ClimateGate," the latest excuse for screaming knuckleheads to defend what has already been lost. It is also yet another distraction from the emergency agenda that the United States faces ...read more

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Deep-Water Oil Won’t Cure Peak Oil

Oct 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
So there I was the other day, walking through the waiting area of a local hospital. I looked over at a glowing television set. I saw a silver flying saucer. The caption at the bottom of the screen stated, helpfully, "Flying Saucer Over Colorado." We're Not Alone… Thank GOD! I thought to ...read more

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