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Peak Oil ’
Oct 20th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Oil
Marcio Mello, the former explorationist from Petrobras (PBR: NYSE) and now independent petroleum consultant, electrified the Denver meeting of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
In a riveting talk that lasted well over an hour, Marcio detailed the immense petroleum potential of offshore Brazil, as well ...
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Tags: Brazil, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
4 comments
Aug 31st, 2009 |
By Doug Hornig |
Category: Featured, Oil
Each year, generally in May, the Energy Information Administration publishes a less-than-eagerly-anticipated tome called the International Energy Outlook, 250+ pages of mind-numbing text, charts, graphs, and tables.
No one reads it. The mainstream media ignore it.
It’s the product of the best prognosticators in the Department of Energy. Okay, that may be ...
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Tags: Energy, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
22 comments
May 8th, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Energy, Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
Euphoria managed to out-run swine flu last week as the epidemic-du-jour, with "consumer" confidence jumping and the big bank stocks nudging up. The H1N1 virus fizzled for now, at least in terms of kill ratio, though we're warned it might boomerang in the fall with a vengeance. No one was ...
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Tags: consumer economy, Peak Oil
Posted in Energy, Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
7 comments
Mar 31st, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
Mr. Obama heads to Europe now where official hostility is rising against the Anglo-American method of pounding monetary sand down the rat-holes of “non-performing” debt, bankrupt enterprise, and bubble-levitated bonds. Our poised and charming Prez may escape personal obloquy from the quaint old-world street folk, but most of the other ...
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Tags: depression, inflation, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
2 comments
Mar 30th, 2009 |
By George Doddington |
Category: Energy, Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
The arguments made against the proposed “net-positive” gas tax deserve a response, because they dismiss the tax’s raison d'être and they suffer from flawed reasoning. Here is my response:
The chief criticism is that the government should not be entrusted with any additional power to tax, for all the usual reasons. ...
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Tags: Peak Oil, taxation
Posted in Energy, Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
9 comments
Mar 3rd, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
What next? Isn't that a question, though...
The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no further oil-fueled growth. It was something of a shock to many that the first complex ...
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Tags: banking, credit, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
18 comments
Jan 26th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Oil
Why are oil prices lying?
Prices communicate information. The NYMEX February oil contract fell over 5% today in New York trading to $34.40. This suggests oil is falling in value, at least in the short term. And maybe that's not totally a lie.
After all, the current oil price results from two ...
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Tags: credit, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Oil |
4 comments
Dec 19th, 2008 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
The peak oil story has not been nullified by the scramble to unload every asset for cash -- including whomping gobs of oil contracts -- during this desperate season of bank liquidation. The main implication of the peak oil story is that we won't be able to generate the kind ...
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Tags: economy, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
11 comments
Dec 4th, 2008 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Gold, Oil, Politics
A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They're discouraged by the advisors and cabinet secretaries he's picked, ostensibly because the crew coming in are Washington "insiders," meaning they can't possibly see or do things differently.
My own starting point for ...
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Tags: Mexico, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Gold, Oil, Politics |
6 comments
Aug 4th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Oil
The price of almost everything on the planet has been rising. And so has the inevitable talk of a commodities bubble and price manipulation. The discussion has become front and center in global markets around the world as economies reel under the heavy weight of soaring prices.
It’s simple for a ...
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Tags: liquidity, oil speculators, Peak Oil, rise in oil prices
Posted in Oil |
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