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Peak Oil from the Demand Side: A Prophetic New Model – Peak Oil BarrelPeak Oil Barrel
Peak Oil from the Demand Side: A Prophetic New Model – Peak Oil BarrelPeak Oil Barrel. The most attention-grabbing attempts to predict oil futures have come from geologists and environmental activists, who tend to look solely at production. An overlooked doctoral thesis by Christophe McGlade, Uncertainties in the outlook for oil and gas, in contrast, focuses on […]
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old. And yet it […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Peak Oil: the elephant in the room
RESOURCE CRISIS: Peak Oil: the elephant in the room. In 2003, I invited Colin Campbell, the founder of the association for the study of peak oil (ASPO), to give a talk in Florence. After the talk, a small group of conspirators (1) collected in my office. We drank together something curiously looking like petroleum in […]
Broken Energy Markets and the Downside of Hubbert’s Peak – The Automatic Earth
Broken Energy Markets and the Downside of Hubbert’s Peak – The Automatic Earth. Euan: A few commenters have mentioned peak oil recently. I am cautious about making forecasts and predictions and prefer instead to observe and document the data as the peak oil story unfolds. I have in fact published a couple of charts recently illustrating […]
Peak Oil Review – Dec 22
Peak Oil Review – Dec 22. 1. Oil and the Global Economy Oil prices were volatile last week with New York futures trading around $55 a barrel and around $60 in London with little change at week’s end. In the absence of any solid news on supply or demand, traders jumped in and out of […]
The Archdruid Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Archdruid Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again. Over the last few weeks, a number of regular readers of The Archdruid Report have asked me what I think about the recent plunge in the price of oil and the apparent end of the fracking bubble. That interest seems to be fairly widespread, and has attracted many of […]
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters. Michael Lynch offered that comment early in a not surprisingly vague article arguing peak oil this past summer. [Not that vague is a new tactic for him. Five years ago, Chris Nelder offered a concise analysis of Lynch’s work, and not much appears to have changed]: With a background in political […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Fossil fuels: are we on the edge of the Seneca cliff?
RESOURCE CRISIS: Fossil fuels: are we on the edge of the Seneca cliff?. “It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.” Lucius Anneaus Seneca, Letters […]
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters. The economic effects of peak oil are as obvious as they are frightening. The most immediate effect is to increase oil prices, and this has its own effect of slowing the economy down. There was a period in which Saudi Arabia could modulate the […]
Shale Oil – Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity
Shale Oil – Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity. If you’ve watch the previous video chapter on Peak Cheap Oil, you may be wondering how any of that could be still be true given all the positive recent stories about shale oil and shale gas , many of which have proclaimed that “Peak Oil is dead”. […]
Peak Oil Review – Nov 11
Peak Oil Review – Nov 11. 1. Oil and the Global Economy Oil prices fell sharply on Monday and Tuesday last week taking New York futures down from $81 a barrel to touch above $76 on Tuesday. Prices then recovered leaving NY oil to close out the week at $78.65, down 2.4 percent for the week and 27 […]
Peak Oil: A New Paradigm Suggested Pt 1 – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: A New Paradigm Suggested Pt 1 – Peak Oil Matters. ‘[P]eak oil’ is a global issue resulting from dependency on finite oil resources and associated vulnerability to changes in supply. The global economy must engage in changes and these changes must start with our misperceptions of prosperity as synonymous with capital. If we […]
Peak Cheap Oil – Crash Course Chapter 20 | Peak Prosperity
Peak Cheap Oil – Crash Course Chapter 20 | Peak Prosperity. Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. But when an economy is based on an exponential debt-based money system and that is based on exponentially increasing energy supplies, the supply of that energy therefore deserves our very highest attention. But we need to be careful here because it’s […]
Resource Insights: Is there really an oil glut?
Resource Insights: Is there really an oil glut?. Back in March 1999 “The Economist” magazine carried a cover photo of two men drenched in oil as they attempted to close a faulty valve that was spraying a huge stream of crude skyward. Over the photo was the headline: “Drowning in oil.” At the time it really did […]
Peak Oil Review – Oct 27
Peak Oil Review – Oct 27. New York futures continued to slide last week closing Friday at $81.01 for the fifth weekly loss. London oil traded quietly around $86 a barrel to finish out the week at $86.13, also down for the fifth consecutive week. There has been no change in the markets’ perception that there is […]



