Posts Tagged ‘
Peak Oil ’
Apr 30th, 2012 |
By Mac Slavo |
Category: Economics, Featured, Oil
If there exists a single factor that can put enough pressure on the whole of the American economy and force it to crumble under its own weight, it's the price the average American pays for gas. Extreme up side gas price swings have preceded seven of the last eight American ...
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Tags: American economy, gas prices, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Economics, Featured, Oil |
4 comments
Apr 10th, 2012 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Featured, Oil
Time and again I read Austrian School economists dissing Peak Oil Theory. They likely do this because they have not taken the time to fully understand the theory behind peak oil. Instead, they get caught up in the doom and gloom predictions made by many proponents of Peak Oil Theory ...
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Tags: Austrian school of economics, global reserves, Oil, OPEC, Peak Oil
Posted in Economics, Featured, Oil |
8 comments
Nov 15th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Economics, Featured, Oil
The French nation was hobbled by strikes, rolling strikes, street violence and other protests. It sprung from the proposal of French Pres. Sarkozy to raise the minimum retirement age to 62, by 2018 — or so the newspapers tell us. Let’s think about it, though.
As a long-time follower of the ...
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Tags: China, France, French strikes, Peak Oil
Posted in Economics, Featured, Oil |
5 comments
Jul 21st, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the ongoing oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), risk factors have changed for fossil fuel energy developments.
We need to consider what it means for our future investment strategy — indeed, there are more lucrative opportunities if you look in ...
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Tags: Canada oil sands, Gulf of Mexico, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
7 comments
May 25th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
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 ...
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Tags: deep water blow out, Hubbard Curve, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
12 comments
May 21st, 2010 |
By Byron King |
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 ...
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Tags: Cameron, deepwater oil drilling, Peak Oil, Transocian
Posted in Featured, Oil |
14 comments
Apr 22nd, 2010 |
By Byron King |
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. ...
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Tags: Iceland volcano, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
12 comments
Apr 6th, 2010 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
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 ...
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Tags: mortgages, Peak Oil, real estate, toxic assets
Posted in Featured, Housing, Oil |
31 comments
Oct 27th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
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 ...
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Tags: Oil, oil imports, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
8 comments
Oct 23rd, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
Eighty-five million barrels a day.
That’s the most that can be produced. So when recession causes a temporary decrease in world consumption, it can seem like those 85 million barrels are enough. But consumption is bound to resume its upward climb, while those 85 million barrels a day are all we ...
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Tags: oil production, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
6 comments
