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How accurate has the Hubbert Linearization technique been in predicting post-peak cumulative Lower 48 oil production? What can the Lower 48 model tell us about the future of world net oil export capacity? Finally, we have a recommendation, a fundamental shift in US tax policy.
How accurate has the Hubbert Linearization technique been in predicting post-peak cumulative Lower 48 oil production? What can the Lower 48 model tell us about the future of world net oil export capacity? Finally, we have a recommendation, a fundamental shift in US tax policy.
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
When I first read James Howard Kunstler’s Rolling Stone excerpt last year, I knew I needed to know more about peak oil. Thousands of pages later I have a far more nuanced picture, and am now back at college teaching a course on peak oil. (Syllabus included)
How the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far based on 2005 production figures.
Triangle conference on peak oil and community solutions to be held March 25 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
Simmons:
What a difference 20 years make in crude oil prices (“What peak oil really means”) /
Natural gas demand destruction /
December the peak? /
ASPO-USA response to ExxonMobil peak oil advertising /
Dr. Robert L. Hirsch joins ASPO-USA advisory board /
Everybody’s an expert: putting predictions to the test
We want to alert you to a 3,000 word article, The End of Oil, by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Robert B. Semple, Jr. of the New Times Editorial
Board.
The [Exxon] advertisement [contradicting Peak Oil] is at best mis-information and at worst a complete pack
of lies. Sadly, this advertisement will be read by Members of Congress and
their staff, and by well-intentioned people in the Administration who do not
have time to read books or talk to real experts, and they will believe this
mis-information.
On the Op-Ed page of today’s New York Times is a large ad-ed placed by ExxonMobil. Titled “Peak Oil? Contrary to the theory, oil production shows no sign of a peak,” the piece blows smoke at the growing consensus among serious petroleum geologists that production of the cheap oil on which all modern economies are based is fast approaching the day when it stops growing to match demand, levels off for a while, and then inexorably falls….The facts suggest otherwise [than Exxon’s ad].
