Another wild ride in 2008
What will 2008 bring? The best answer is more of the same—continued market tightness and nominal prices finally breaking the $100 barrier and perhaps going much higher.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Dec 18
Oil dreams in the Gulf of Mexico
Urgent message from ASPO-USA
Peak everything: What, me worry?
Peak oil- oil prices in an era of plateau
ODAC Newsletter to cease in 2008
ODAC and TOD:Canada newsletters
Energy industries – Dec 18
Don Quixote and Exxon’s contrarian gamble
Book sounds death knell for nuclear power
Carbon’s rocky road (sequestration)
Welcome to Fantasy Air
Roger Bezdek asks a question that answers itself: “What is more important: Food or cheap air fares to Las Vegas and Vail?”
The limits to reserves growth
Reserves growth in existing oilfields is largely illusory and will not put off the date of peak oil, according to BP’s former Chief Petroleum Engineer. (Interview)
Skeptics – Dec 18
Panic the big threat to planet (Marcus Aurelius responds)
Brazil’s not peaking
Plenty of oil left in the global tank
Korean state oil company: PO theory flawed
Why are Canadians the world’s energy pigs?
Canada is rich, big and cold, and we share two borders with the United States. Those factors explain why we are the world’s energy pigs, but they do not justify it.
Oil prices and supplies – Dec 18
WSJ: Saudi industrial drive strains oil-export role
NYT: Oil-rich nations use more energy, cutting exports
Volatile mixture of factors lights a fire under crude price
Saudi says no need to cut oil use to fight warming
Peak Oil Review – December 17th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Mortgages and Inflation
– Iraq
– 2008
– Energy Briefs
The peak oil crisis: the NY Times drops the first shoe
Drawing on the combined wisdom of no less than seven of their reporters strung out around the earth, the New York Times boldly concluded that “The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can sell abroad.”
The widening chasm on energy
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
Peak oil – Dec 12
Connecticut PO forum: To The Last Drop?
Jamaica:
Victims of record world oil prices?
Cheap oil is so yesterday
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