The End of Oil is Near, or Maybe Not
To the extent that oil demand goes down in the future, it will go down because people can’t afford oil distillates at the price producers need to produce the corresponding oil.
Oil demand
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work
$50 per barrel oil is clearly less impossible to live with than $30 per barrel oil, because most businesses cannot make a profit with $30 per barrel oil. But is $50 per barrel oil helpful?
The Real Oil Limits Story; what other researchers missed
The underlying assumption in peak oil models is that scarcity would appear before the final cutoff of consumption.
Why oil under $30 per barrel is a major problem
A person often reads that low oil prices–for example, $30 per barrel oil prices–will stimulate the economy, and the economy will soon bounce back. What is wrong with this story? A lot of things, as I see it…
Why “Supply and Demand” doesn’t Work for Oil
A gradual switch to higher-cost energy products, in a sense, works in the opposite direction to a switch from beef to chicken.
Oil and the Global Economy
How important is oil to the future of the global economy?
Supply, Demand, and the Price of Oil
Could the price of oil be a value such that the current quantity produced exceeds the current quantity consumed?
Low Oil Prices – Why Worry?
The Peak Oil story we have been told is wrong. The collapse in oil production comes from oil prices that are too low, not too high.
Peak Oil Notes – May 22
A midweek roundup. After a five-session losing streak, oil prices reversed on Wednesday, climbing about a dollar a barrel in New York and London to close at $58.98 and $65.03 respectively
One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: IEA’s January Report
OK. Which curve on this chart is not like the others? It’s the U.S. and Canada’s oil production curve over the past several years.
Oil Prices as an Indicator of Global Economic Conditions
But another reason oil prices have slid so much is weakness in demand for the product, which may be related to a slowdown of overall world economic growth.
World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price
How far the oil price will come down and for how long it will stay “low” is now anyone’s guess. A declining price results from weakening demand while supplies are improving.