Posts Tagged ‘ Oil ’

The State of the Union, Just Another Reality Show

Feb 1st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, International, Politics
It looks just like a reality show that's not going to be renewed for another season. President Obama's State of the Union ratings are headed in the same direction as American Idol's so far this season – down. Let me make a secret confession right here. For years, the producer of ...read more


Iran’s Desperate Gamble to Push Oil Up to $200

Jan 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, International, Oil
As this tumultuous and volatile year draws to an end, it's time to turn your thoughts to 2012. What will the new year bring…and what can you do to prepare for it? I've given it a lot of thought, drawing on my decades of market-watching experience. In the end, I came ...read more


How to Profit When Big Oil Bets on Natural Gas

Sep 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured
Royal Dutch Shell said that by 2012 it expects more than half of its output will be natural gas — not oil. That is as if Starbucks said it expects to sell more tea than coffee. Yet this is not unusual for Big Oil these days. In fact, most are making ...read more


Mexico’s Crashing Oil Industry

Aug 9th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Oil
Mexico is a critical oil supplier to the United States. But Mexico’s ‘s oil industry is in crisis. Indeed the grim numbers come from no less a source than the Mexican Energy Ministry. Production statistics make it clear that Mexico’s overall oil output is declining rapidly — with the word ...read more


Africa, Latin America and Energy Development in the Atlantic Basin

Aug 4th, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, International, Oil
Recently, I had a long talk with Ali Moshiri, President of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company. Mr. Moshiri been has been working for Chevron for over 30 years. He’s one busy man, whose responsibilities begin in the southern waters of the Gulf of Mexico and extend ...read more


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


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


The Economy Has Six Months to Live

Jan 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
The economy has about six months to live. Especially the part that consists of swapping paper certificates. That’s the buzz I’ve gotten the first two weeks of 2010, and forgive me for not presenting a sheaf of charts and graphs to make the case. Just about everybody else yakking about ...read more


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


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