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Oil demand

The End of Oil is Near, or Maybe Not

September 11, 2020 by Roger Blanchard

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.

Categories Energy, Energy featured Tags economics of fracking, Oil demand, Renewable Energy, world oil demand 2 Comments

$50 Oil Doesn’t Work

December 15, 2020June 1, 2016 by Gail Tverberg

$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?

Categories Energy Tags limits to growth, Oil demand, oil price Leave a comment

The Real Oil Limits Story; what other researchers missed

December 15, 2020May 16, 2016 by Gail Tverberg

The underlying assumption in peak oil models is that scarcity would appear before the final cutoff of consumption. 

 

Categories Energy Tags EROEI, M. KING HUBBERT, Oil demand, oil limits, oil price, peak oil Leave a comment

Why oil under $30 per barrel is a major problem

December 15, 2020January 21, 2016 by Gail Tverberg

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…

Categories Energy Tags low oil prices, Oil demand, oil production, oil supply, recession Leave a comment

Why “Supply and Demand” doesn’t Work for Oil

December 15, 2020November 25, 2015 by Gail Tverberg

A gradual switch to higher-cost energy products, in a sense, works in the opposite direction to a switch from beef to chicken. 

Categories Economy Tags debt defaults, low oil prices, Oil demand, oil production, peak oil, supply and demand Leave a comment

Oil and the Global Economy

December 15, 2020October 9, 2015 by Jan Mueller

How important is oil to the future of the global economy?

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Supply, Demand, and the Price of Oil

December 15, 2020October 5, 2015 by James Hamilton

Could the price of oil be a value such that the current quantity produced exceeds the current quantity consumed?

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Low Oil Prices – Why Worry?

December 15, 2020September 30, 2015 by Gail Tverberg

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.

Categories Energy Tags debt defaults, limits to growth, low oil prices, Oil demand, peak oil, recession Leave a comment

Peak Oil Notes – May 22

December 15, 2020May 22, 2015 by Tom Whipple

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

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One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: IEA’s January Report

December 15, 2020January 21, 2015 by Arthur E. Berman

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.

Categories Energy Tags forecasts, geopolitics, Oil demand, oil price, oil supply Leave a comment

Oil Prices as an Indicator of Global Economic Conditions

December 15, 2020December 17, 2014 by James Hamilton

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.

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World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price

December 15, 2020October 30, 2014 by Rune Likvern

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.

Categories Economy Tags debt levels, interest rates, Oil demand, oil prices, oil production, oil supply Leave a comment
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