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Peak Oil ’
Jul 14th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Oil
World Made by Hand, Part II
One of the Last Outposts
The premise of World Made by Hand, James Kunstler’s new book, is apocalyptic. For a variety of reasons related to Peak Oil and economic collapse, American civilization simply broke down. The wheels just fell off. The economy collapsed. Commerce broke down. ...
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Tags: cheap energy, gas prices, James Kunstler, Peak Oil, post-apocalyptic, World Made by Hand
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Jul 10th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Oil
World Made by Hand is a beautifully written novel about a very difficult time, post-Peak Oil. Some books hit you in the gut and force you to think; and this is one of them. You may go where you don’t want to go. But it’s quite a trip.
The book begins ...
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Tags: crude oil, James Kunstler, Peak Oil, post-apocalyptic, World Made by Hand
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Jul 3rd, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Oil
A few weeks ago we witnessed a political act of such unimaginable stupidity, it is hard to not choke at the mention of it.
A cursory review of the details is worth a minute of your time. This compliments of The Oil & Gas Journal…
“WASHINGTON, DC, May 20 — The U.S. ...
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Tags: oil companies, OPEC, Peak Oil, Petroleum Industry Antitrust Task Force, U.S. Congress
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Jun 24th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Commodities, Energy, 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 decline in oil exports as a result of Peak Oil.
As ...
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Tags: Export Land Model, export markets, oil exports, oil shortages, Peak Oil, solar energy
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Jun 16th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Currencies, Gold, Oil
Oil has become the “anti-dollar” of modern times. Oil is now serving as the source of global monetary discipline that gold used to perform.
Oil is the energy life-blood of all modern economies. So when a nation debauches its currency, the oil markets react instantly. And oil will not accept monetary ...
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Tags: cheap oil, monetary policy, oil supplies, Peak Oil, world oil demand
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May 20th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Currencies, Gold, Oil
Has oil hit its peak price or not? The answer to that question leads us to ask whether or not commodities are a bubble about to burst. Barron’s recent cover story on commodities came down on the side that the party was over.
I believe the charts I have in this ...
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Tags: commodities bubble, credit crisis, falling dollar, money supply, Peak Oil, price of oil
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Nov 20th, 2007 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Currencies
“He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it.”
— Ecclesiastes 10:8
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT, NICOLAS SARKOZY, was in Washington earlier this month, speaking to Congress en Français and telling the United States to stop dumping dollars and risking a global financial crisis.
Ooh la la! Sounds just like old times...
“The dollar cannot ...
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Tags: depreciating dollar, high us import prices, nicholas sarkozy, Peak Oil, value of dollar
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Nov 15th, 2007 |
By Byron King |
Category: Gold, Oil
OKAY, READERS, LET’S TAKE A LOOK at what’s going on. The price of oil is nearing $100 per barrel and will probably break through that level any second now. The price of gold is nearing $825 per ounce. That should go higher. So this is what we know. Not pretty, ...
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Tags: Peak Oil, price of gold, price of oil, value of the dollar
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Jul 23rd, 2007 |
By Byron King |
Category: Oil
On July 5, I traveled to Las Vegas to give a talk at Mark Skousen's FreedomFest 2007 convention. Mark is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our age, whose brilliant, brief and ineffable class and style far exceed what you see or read with the usual schlock ...
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Tags: b787, boeing dreamliner, freedomfest, Peak Oil
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Jul 2nd, 2007 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Commodities, Oil
Media pundits are apoplectic at the notion of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. buying The Wall Street Journal. Journal reporters themselves staged a morning-long walkout last Thursday. No one believes an agreement in the proposed sale on "editorial independence" will stand the test of time; Murdoch will reportedly have the power ...
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Tags: Housing, Lehman, Peak Oil, Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal, tightening energy supply
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