Tag oil prices

The Oil Drum continues their countdown to $200 oil

Among their well-presented and well-researched data, The Oil Drum says,  referring to the chart – does it look like prices are crashing? So, at this point, I’m still happy to continue my “Countdown to $200 oil series” and see no…

Drop in oil prices possibly due to speculation

SemGroup just filled bankruptcy after a $3.2bn trading loss in commodities. Interestingly, they were short oil, meaning they expected prices to drop. But a wildly flucuating oil market combined with other traders smelling SemGroup blood in the water forced them…

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…