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Richard E. Vodra

Richard Vodra, J.D., is the president of Worldview Two Planning of McLean, VA. He is retired from a 27-year career as a personal financial planner, and received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Capital Area chapter of the Financial Planning Association. He is an original member of the Nazrudin Project. He currently focuses on the linkages between financial planning, climate change, and resource constraints. He can be reached at [email protected].

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What Oil’s Troubles Mean to the Rest of Us

By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives

To the extent that stock prices reflect expectations of future value, investors don’t like the prospects for oil, and oil’s demise signals muted prospects for economic growth.

  • December 3, 2020

The Cost of Cheap Oil

By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives

The world price of oil - Brent Crude - fell below $84 per barrel on October 15. What is going on? Why does the price of oil matter to financial advisors? What might these fluctuations mean to the price and supply of oil for the rest of the decade?

  • October 28, 2014

Oil Abundance? Not So Fast- A Risk Checklist

By Richard E. Vodra, ASPO-USA

Understanding how we use oil and where it comes from provides many reasons why Americans should be worried about the future of oil supplies.

  • July 21, 2014

Commentary: Looking Back at Peak Oil

By Richard E. Vodra, ASPO-USA

Peak Oil – the maximum sustainable rate of global oil production - happened in 2012. That’s one of the main conclusions of a new report, Fossil and Nuclear Fuels – The Supply Outlook, released in March 2013 by the Energy Watch Group (EWG). This event will have profound long-term implications for how advisors should manage clients’ portfolios, and how clients should plan their future expenses.

  • May 6, 2013

Is fracking a “happy solution” to our energy needs?

By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives

Looking at technical, economic, energetic, and environmental issues, this is a  wide-ranging response for financial advisors by a long-time planner and ASPO board member.

  • January 7, 2013

Book review: “Energy and the Wealth of Nations”

By Richard E. Vodra, JD, ASPO-USA

When our society relies on an understanding of economics that did not predict, prevent, or mitigate the current economic crisis, and that, more importantly, does not effectively address climate change or resource depletion, it is time for a new and different approach to understanding the economy. That premise is the foundation of Energy and the Wealth of Nations, an important book by ecologist Charles Hall and economist Kent Klitgaard, who together are pioneering the new discipline of biophysical economics.

  • June 11, 2012

Can overconfidence be overcome in advance?

By Richard E. Vodra, ASPO-USA

What seems to be missing from the coming New York Times energy conference is a sense of skepticism about the underlying assumptions for energy sufficiency in the decades to come. The agenda, speakers, and likely attendees remind one of what a shipboard symposium might have been like on the future of trans-Atlantic shipping held in the salon of the Titanic exactly one hundred years earlier. Maybe it’s inevitable that the hard questions won’t be entertained until the disaster occurs and we realize there aren’t enough lifeboats.

  • April 9, 2012
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