From those wild-eyed tree huggers at the Wall Street Journal.
Posts under ‘Peak oil’
Study: Oil demand will peak before supply runs out
Hughes is not alone in predicting that fears over peaking oil supplies are largely unfounded, on the grounds that economies will find replacement sources of energy at a faster rate than the oil industry expects.
Let’s hope so. Because that will mean we’ve switched to a renewable energy, non-petroleum-based economy.
BP and Verenium form cellulosic ethanol venture [...]
Crazed enviro wackos say oil output near peak
Oh wait, it’s a major oil company that’s saying it.
IEA: World oil supplies declining faster than expected
Infectious Greed
We have temporarily dodged a bullet. The upcoming IEA World Energy Report will say that global oil supplies are falling faster than expected, and massive investments are required just to (almost) stand still. The only thing making things marginally less calamitous? The current downturn-induced demand collapse has given us a little more time to [...]
Rob Newman’s stand-up comedy routine on Peak Oil
‘A History of Oil’ comes highly recommended by both Sue and Wood at John Heron Project. (Haven’t had time to watch it yet, have been traveling and am at hotel with flaky wifi as I type this.)
Energy crisis, A discussion with Matt Simmons
Gasoline historically has been extremely cheap. It still costs less than beer or most any other liquid. Matt Simmons thinks gas could go to $12-15 a gallon. Demand is increasing while supply is dropping. That’s the problem.
Peak oil doomster gloom
To paraphrase Waylon Jennings, Don’t you think this doomster bit has done got out of hand.
That’s what Paul Kedrofsky asked on Twitter, “are peak oil theorists turning into doomster defeatists?”, linking to a discussion on The Oil Drum.
Yeah, some are. Peak oil and global warming have become religion to them and deviations from the doctrine [...]
Running on empty: Life without cheap oil
Jim Kuntsler on how the end of cheap oil quite possibly means the end of mass-scale enterprises like industrial farming and a rise in political turmoil as the dispossessed see their way of life slip away. Kuntsler is even less optimistic than Matt Simmons about the possibility of renewable energy supplying much of our needs.
Matt Simmons on oil prices
He sees the biggest obstacle stopping us from going to renewables is the mistaken belief that oil prices are temporarily high and will drop. So rather than deal with the problem, we’re going on a witch hunt to see who is keeping prices up.
Even if we started drilling offshore everywhere now, we wouldn’t see the [...]
WSJ: Ok, peak oil is real after all
What’s up with oil prices? Well, it’s not speculators, and there’s no relief in sight, meaning at least five more years of high prices with no easy fixes. The ugly truth? Peak oil isn’t fringe anymore—it’s going mainstream.
The dozens of comments to this Wall Street Journal blog post indicate that even in this bastion of [...]
Population control and the Peaks
Peak oil, peak food, peak water, global warming too. Is the root cause of all of these problems that there are just too many people on the planet?
The current world population is about 6.6 billion and growing fast. Yet suggesting that we need less people opens up all manner of ugly issues. Who gets to [...]
Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century
Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century, by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder
The title here is maybe a little misleading. This isn’t a get rich quick book nor is it about profiting from the misery of others. In fact, you don’t get get to investment ideas [...]
Oil’s gains are due to fundamentals, not speculation
Why?
Stagnant supply
Increasing demand
Weak dollar
Seems clear enough to me.
The UnGhandi generation
Breakthrough Blog has a fascinating post focusing on two bloggers from India who challenge the asceticism and anti-modernism of Gandhi, paralleling that with the similar views of the ascetic wing of the environmental movement
A few quotes to give the flavor.
When they hear Western environmentalist lionize Gandhi and moralize against coal burning in India, they hear [...]
Mexico to reduce oil shipments to the US
This due to decreased production in their monster Cantrell field. They say it could be for up to two years, but given that Cantrell is in decline, it’s difficult to see how production will ever return to what it was, something which will have profound impact upon both the US and Mexico.
