Category Peak oil

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,…

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…

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…

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…