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Eric Sprott could have told you this was coming. Canada’s top fund manager was buying energy stocks long before oil — and other commodities — became the hottest investing trend since the technology bubble. He is wildly bullish about energy. Two words explain why: Hubbert’s Peak.
Energy demand in the United States and China has been relentless. The appetite for more oil in the two fastest growing economies in the world goes on unabated.
We must apply the same can-do attitude and the same brainpower and technical resources to the alternatives-to-oil issue as we did to landing a man on the moon.
The United States rode out $55 a barrel oil last fall. But some economists say the latest jump in that key commodity poses a greater threat to the nation’s economic growth.
The dramatic increase in global demand for oil, and the resulting price spiral in the last couple of months, may be early warnings of a fundamental change in the economies of industrialized nations.
The first two sections of the ‘Hirsch Report’ to the US Dept. of Energy on Peak Oil formatted for the web.
An unexpected and courageous speech on efficiency, conservation, and population control by an ultra-conservative Member of Congress needs to be brought to the attention of all. Readers, please feel free to borrow and customize to send to your US Representative.
Deloitte & Touche LLP has urged regulators worldwide to update their oil and gas reserves reporting requirements and to expand the scope of mandatory disclosures in annual reports and financial statements.
Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President George Bush.
A five-year oil boom is ending in Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, as President Vladimir Putin increases government control over the industry, curtailing investment in new wells, rigs and pipelines.
The Government still has a small window of opportunity to reduce New Zealand’s dependence on oil before price rises really start to hurt.
As U.S. crude oil prices soared past $56 a barrel to an all-time high on Wednesday, the government said that hedge funds and speculative traders were not to blame for rising crude costs.
