Peak Oil Review – Sept 29
A weekly update, including -Oil and the Global Economy -The Middle East and North Africa -China -Ukraine -Quotes of the Week -The Briefs
oil production
Peak oil notes – Sept 25
A mid-week update. New York oil futures took a jump on Wednesday after the EIA reported that US crude inventories fell by an unexpected 4.3 million barrels last week as US refinery operations increased slightly and crude imports fell by 1.2 million b/d.
Peak Oil Review – Sept 22
A weekly update, including: – Oil and the global economy -The Middle East and North Africa -Russia -Quote of the Week -The Briefs
Peak oil notes – Sept 18
A mid-week update. After a $2 a barrel jump on Tuesday, NY futures slid back a bit on bit on Wednesday after an unexpected jump in US crude inventories of 3.7 million barrels which was 5 million higher than analysts had been expecting.
Peak oil review – Sept 15
A weekly update including, -Oil and the Global Economy -The Middle East and North Africa -Ukraine -Quote of the Week -The Briefs
America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally!
Three more years? That’s pretty scary! Surely there must be a mistake in that headline.
Are we on the path of ‘Limits to Growth’?
Researchers are finding that the business-as-usual scenario in the 1972 "Limits to Growth" study is unfolding before our eyes. Will reality follow that scenario further into the beginning of industrial decline this decade?
Peak oil notes – Sept 11
A mid-week update. So far this week, oil prices in New York and London continued the collapse that has been going on since mid-June.
Oil is Back!
Despite what you may think, Americans, on average, are driving more miles every day, not fewer, filling ever more fuel tanks with ever more gasoline, and evidently feeling ever less bad about it.
IEA Oil Market Forecast: Optimistic Assumptions And An Economy Unable To Grow Out Of Its Problems
The International Energy Authority does does its best to paint a rosy picture of peak cheap oil. The reality is an economy which can no longer grow its way out of its problems.
Did crude oil production actually peak in 2005?
Haven’t we been hearing from the oil industry and from government and international agencies that worldwide oil production has been increasing in the last several years? The answer, of course, is yes. But, the deeper question is whether this assertion is actually correct.
Former oil man calls for renewable “Renaissance” to ward off shale dystopia
Despite its serious tone, The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, published by the reputable academic publisher Routledge, makes a compelling and ultimately hopeful case for the prospects of transitioning to a clean energy system in tandem with a new form of sustainable prosperity.