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Our Latest Oil Predicament
Our Latest Oil Predicament It is impossible to tell the whole oil story, but perhaps I can offer a few insights regarding where we are today. [1] We already seem to be back to the falling oil prices and refilling storage tanks scenario. US crude oil stocks hit their low point on January 19, 2018 and have started […]
The World Oil Supply is Infinite: I Know That Because I Believe It
The World Oil Supply is Infinite: I Know That Because I Believe It Earth scientists have been making the case for years that the present level of human activity is not sustainable. We’re rapidly depleting resources, degrading ecosystems, altering the atmosphere, etc. What earth scientists are saying is generally not covered by the mainstream media, […]
Expert Commentary: How Trump’s Trade War Affects Canadian Oil
Expert Commentary: How Trump’s Trade War Affects Canadian Oil Last week, the first salvo of a global trade war was fired: US tariffs on steel and aluminum. Like the “shot heard round the world,” the American protectionist move has politicians and economists in industrialized nations strategizing with their spreadsheets. From Porsches to prosciutto, every country […]
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics It’s all about Energy Retun On Energy Invested (EROEI) Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be. Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical […]
History crash
History crash My previous post offered a retrospective take on my ‘Peasant’s Republic of Wessex’ post cycle that I completed a while back. I thought I might now turn to another such retrospective, this time on my recently-completed ‘History of the world’ cycle. So I’d like to offer a few thoughts on the way we […]
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics Dunder-Mifflin as Troll Farm The Mueller indictment made public on Friday charges 13 Russian nationals with trolling the American electoral process to ‘sow discord’ by falsely representing themselves as American dissident personas. Once the field of presidential aspirants had been narrowed in 2016, their goal became to support Donald Trump’s […]
Are Oil Prices Heading for Another Spike?
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images Are Oil Prices Heading for Another Spike? The decline in the dollar’s exchange rate seems to have gathered momentum, in part because the person who has his signature on US currency, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, seems unperturbed by its weakness. If it continues, will energy costs spiral upward? […]
The Abnormality of Oil
Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Getty Image The Abnormality of Oil At the 2017 Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, the consensus among industry executives was that oil prices will still be around $60 per barrel in November 2018. But there is evidence to suggest that the uptick in global growth and developments in Saudi Arabia will push the […]
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields The 1950s were a turbulent time on both sides of the Iron Curtain. With the Second World War over and the star role played by crude oil in its outcome, British and U.S. intelligence agencies wasted no time working out scenarios should the Soviets invade […]
Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil
Vladimir Yudin | Dreamstime.com iTunes | Google Play | Download | Report Problem Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil And competition for it is heating up Art Berman, 40-year veteran in the petroleum production industry and respected geological consultant, returns to the podcast this week to talk about oil. […]
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location In recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing a number of the most closely guarded secrets of U.S. diplomacy. The four former […]
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression The math is straightforward, but cruel As most PeakProsperity.com readers know, we fully agree with the statement: Energy is THE master resource. Without it, nothing can get done. Energy analyst and professional actuary Gail Tverberg returns to the podcast this week to revisit the global energy outlook. And fair warning, Gail warns […]
Here is what’s holding back China’s plans for world domination
Here is what’s holding back China’s plans for world domination Australia may be the worlds largest exporter of coal, sending out 388 million tons in 2015, but China’s production of coal the same year was 3,747 million tons — nearly ten times as much, and nearly half of global coal production. But the Chinese coal […]
Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits
Venezuela Will Back Its Cryptocurrency With 5 Billion Barrels Of Oil, Gold Deposits Four months ago, in a not entirely surprising move meant to circumvent US economic sanctions on Venezuela, president Nicolas Maduro announced that his nation would stop accepting dollars as payment for oil imports, followed just days later by the announcement that in […]
