• The Slope of Dysfunction: With oil in short supply, industrial production plummets (Club Orlov) -- Perhaps you have heard of the Peak Oil theory? Most people have by now, even the people whose job used to involve denying the possibility that global crude oil production would peak...
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Stifling a Rebound Note: Tom Whipple is a former CIA analyst. source(FCNP) -- Since the beginning of the economic troubles some 18 months ago, the question on nearly everyone's mind was; "When will the recovery...
• The peak oil crisis: The year of the dollar
(Falls Church News Press) -- Our peak oil crisis is morphing into a dollar crisis. Despite record inventories, and millions of barrels sitting in anchored tankers, oil prices continue to rise....
• Prepping up for Peak Oil: First Lady Michelle Obama, Gardener in Chief Related: Peak Oil -- Fifty Million FarmersShe didn't look like much of a gardener, dressed in carnation-red jeans, a T-shirt and sweater, and fashionable sneakers, but that didn't stop Michelle Obama...
• Report says peak oil could cause food shortages in S.F. In May, an obscure city advisory group released the results of a 15-month study of San Francisco's vulnerabilities to peak oil, a scenario that assumes the global supply of oil will run thin in the...
• It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over: Energy Department Changes Tune on Peak Oil Comment: IT'S OVER!Related:World Oil Production Peaked in 2008; The link between Peak Oil, biowarfare and demand destruction; WHO raises flu pandemic to highest level
(Tomdispatch) -- Every...
• The Peak Oil Crisis: A Letter From Baghdad (FCNP) -- A couple of weeks back the peak oil community received a letter from an officer serving with our forces in Iraq.Despite numerous distractions in Iraq these days, this officer is so...
• CERA official acknowledges “peak oil is here” (Energy Bulletin) -- Speaking at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on 8 June, CERA Global Oil Group Managing Director Jim Burkhard began and ended his talk by...
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Watching a Mega-Crisis (FCNP) -- In the last few weeks there have been a number of developments that may provide an insight into the next few years - but first let's review.
We, in America, are deep in the midst of a...
• Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures Kjell Aleklett, a Swedish physics professor and president of ASPO, the main peak oil association, is taking on the IEA over future liquid hydrocarbon supply. Platts reports Aleklett will present a...
• Peak Oil: World Oil Production Forecast - Update May 2009
(The Oil Drum) -- World oil production peaked in July 2008 at 74.82 million barrels/day (mbd) and now has fallen to about 71 mbd. It is expected that oil production will decline slowly to about...
• Why Oil Shortages May Cause Price Decreases, Rather than Increases
(The Oil Drum) -- A lot of people think peak oil is no longer a problem because prices are no longer in the stratosphere. It seems to me that standard economic models start breaking down when...
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Bankruptcy (FCNP) -- A few years back peak oil all seemed so simple. Worldwide oil production was going to stop growing; shortages were going to develop; prices would go higher and higher; demand would drop;...
• Peak oil and the end of economic growth? “American Scientist” has a provocative article on peak oil and what that means for the chimera of unending economic growth. The authors remind us that population growth and increased food...
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