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• Geologist Campbell: IEA Inflates Oil Supply Data; Peak Oil Came in 2008

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 498
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• Oil, is production really topping out?

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 144
  Well, the figures say world oil production has hardly increased since… 2003. The number of optimists is dwindling, and so is their optimism…Moving beyond denialRandy Udall and Steve AndrewsOil Exploration and Production Constraints http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUVY2qrEfd8Acknowledging Peak Oil ...
  6 hours ago

• Surviving Without Sacrificing Values

  
  Ha Ha Ha! — Authority: 118
  A couple years ago I gave a speech to the graduating class of the Hawai‘i Community College. I talked about survival. I told them stories that my Pop told me when I was a small kid. And how they could make short-term decisions without sacrificing their long-term core values. It was very well received and it was ...
  11 hours ago

• World Oil Production Forecast - Update November 2009

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 648
  World oil production peaked in July 2008 at 74.74 million barrels/day (mbd) and now has fallen to about 72 mbd. It is expected that oil production will decline at about 2.2 mbd per year as shown below in the chart. The forecasts from the IEA WEO 2008 and 2009 are shown for comparison. The IEA 2009 forecast has ...
  16 hours ago

• Valero To Close Refinery

  
  Samurai Trader — Authority: 150
  Whenever the price of gasoline spikes up, the mainstream media brings out a string of talking heads who all blame it on refinery capacity, or the lack of, pointing out "we havent built any refineries in 25 years", then promptly blame a few pot smoking tree huggers. Never do they point out that "we" dont build ...
  1 day ago

• Global cooling?

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 462
  I woke up on Saturday to see the New York Times headline Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute . The New York Times headline editor was restrained while others were far more outraged. As an example, Mish’s blog stated the story as: Its now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a ...
  1 day ago

• 155: Peak Oil - Adapting for Big Changes Ahead

  
  Peak Moment Conversations — Authority: 92
  With a long-time eye to declining energy resources, Bart Anderson envisions a very different society in five years. The former editor of Energy Bulletin.net offers advice for post-oil living: Understand the problem. Prepare psychologically for big shifts and the unexpected. Find your niche and get good at it. See ...
  1 day ago

• Renewable Energy, Winning by Default

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 133
  The World in a Box.jpg The one thing that may put renewable energies like solar power over the top in the future is not price, efficiency, or even the size of environmental footprints, but merely the fact that oil and gas reserves are becoming increasingly uncertain.
  2 days ago

• Chris Nelder. logi Energy-China: The Vampire Squid of Commodities. Part Two

  
  Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 474
  Outmaneuvering America Rodgers has no doubt that China understands peak oil and expects future supply disruptions, which is why it’s accumulating foreign assets and diversifying its import options. Peter Dea, the president of oil and gas exploration and production company Cirque Resources LP, made the same point ...
  3 days ago

• A Uranium Shortage?

  
  Entangled States — Authority: 130
  There are many people concerned right now about the continued ability of oil reserves to keep up with demand. Weve had a bit of a reprieve because of the global recession, but as the recession lessens around the world, demand for energy is increasing and oil prices are starting to rise again. A number of countries, ...
  3 days ago

• The Renewables Gap (ASPO 2009)

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 648
  Below is a summary of my presentation, The Renewables Gap, from the ASPO 2009 conference. The intent of my presentation was to highlight the political challenge of affecting a societal transition to renewable sources of energy. In particular, I focus on wind and solar, though it seems to me that the problem will be ...
  3 days ago

• Peak Oil Vignette 2 – Buses

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 118
  People used to walk for pleasure, now they walk because it is too expensive to drive anywhere that you could reasonably walk. We’d all hoped that public transit buses would be able to keep up with the growing demand from the newly carless, but in time, the buses just became another victim of the rising cost of ...
  3 days ago

• America’s Pending Collapse By Timothy V. Gatto

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  By Timothy V. GattoFeatured WriterDandelion Saladliberalpro.blogspot.comNovember 20, 2009photo by Dandelion SaladThe truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that ...
  3 days ago

• Americas Pending Collapse

  
  LiberalPro — Authority: 107
  The truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that capitalism has outlived its usefulness, is thoroughly the fault of the capitalists themselves. For many years ...
  3 days ago

• Chris Nelder, logi Energy-China: The Vampire Squid of Commodities, Part One

  
  Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 474
  For my final report on the 2009 ASPO peak oil conference, I must address the world’s new prime mover of commodity demand: China. With flat-to-declining economic growth rates in most of the rest of the world, the Red Dragon has emerged as the dominant force driving global demand for natural resources. Adam ...
  3 days ago

• Drill Baby Drill

  
  Private Mars Rocket — Authority: 125
  So, jaylake points me to an interesting article by Thomas Friedman . Now, Friedman has a tendency to say things that sound profound but really arent. However, in this case, hes saying something that actually is profound. You dont have to believe in global warming to support a carbon tax. Now, a carbon ...
  4 days ago

• Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 707
  Saudi Aramco is building superfast supercomputers to find more oil. Does that mean the peak oil advocates are right?
  4 days ago

• Modern Life Is Probably Screwed by Peak Oil, But It’s Not Too Late to Avoid Mass Starvation

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By George Monbiot Monbiot.com I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone into freefall: the credibility of the body that’s meant to assess them. Last week two whistleblowers from the International Energy Agency alleged that it has ...
  4 days ago

• Taking of Life

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  Deer hunting is in full swing these days. Last weekend my brother and uncle both shot deer. The taking of life is something Ive been thinking about lately. A month ago I wrote about the two dogs I had to kill. Ive thought about them off and on since that day and last weekend went to see their decaying bodies where I ...
  4 days ago

• Boone Pickens Sees Oil At $100 Next Year, $300 In 10 Years

  
  Investorazzi.com — Authority: 473
  Last time Investorazzi heard , legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens, Jr., said crude oil prices were going to be around $75 a barrel by the end of 2009 and $85 by the end of 2010. However, Pickens added that should a global economic recovery take place, we cold see $90 to $100 for a barrel of oil next year. Well, ...
  4 days ago

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