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American kids in the Age of Oil: ‘Economically worthless but emotionally priceless’

December 15, 2020November 4, 2014 by Erik Curren

However much or little they loved their children compared to today, parents in agrarian America greatly valued their kids economically

Categories Economy Tags Industrial Revolution, peak oil Leave a comment

On Public Health and Energy

December 15, 2020October 24, 2014 by Lakis Polycarpou

Among the many radical changes that have transformed society since the birth of industrialism, perhaps none have had as great an impact as the revolution in health.

Categories Energy Tags energy consumption, peak oil, public health Leave a comment

Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need

December 15, 2020October 22, 2014 by David Bollier

How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?

Categories Act: Inspiration, Food & Water Tags building resilient food systems, climate change, peak oil Leave a comment

Peak oil is here: the view from Barbastro

December 15, 2020October 14, 2014 by Ugo Bardi

We are not running out of oil, we are running out of the financial resources needed to extract it. During the past years, the oil industry has spent enormous amounts of money to make an immense effort in developing new resources.

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WSJ Gets it Wrong on “Why Peak Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True”

December 15, 2020October 6, 2014 by Gail Tverberg

Diminishing returns from oil limits are already beginning to hit, but the impacts and the expected shape of the down slope are quite different from those forecast by most Peak Oilers.

Categories Economy Tags economics, growth, peak oil 1 Comment

America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally! – Part 2

December 15, 2020October 3, 2014 by Roger Baker

The estimate of three years of easily affordable driving depends primarily on how long the current fracking boom, which is holding down the global oil price, can be sustained.

Categories Energy Tags driving trends, gasoline prices, oil prices, peak oil, Transportation, unconventional oil production Leave a comment

In Search of Oil Realism

December 15, 2020October 2, 2014 by D. Ray Long

Russell Gold’s Wall Street Journal article "Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True" hit the web yesterday. 

Categories Energy Tags peak oil 1 Comment

Scots lost out in UK oil and gas endgame

September 30, 2014 by Matt Mushalik

Those 24 Gboe (oil and gas) hotly debated during the independence campaign appear to be largely exagerated because half of that includes additional and yet-to-find resources the development of which is uncertain.

Categories Energy Tags Energy Policy, Natural Gas, Oil, peak oil, UK energy policies Leave a comment

US shale oil growth covers up production drop in rest-of-world

September 17, 2014 by Matt Mushalik

The world is transfixed on growing world crude production driven by US shale oil but forgets to look what is happening under this remarkable growth curve.

Categories Energy Tags Fracking, peak oil, Shale Oil Leave a comment

America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally!

December 15, 2020September 15, 2014 by Roger Baker

Three more years? That’s pretty scary! Surely there must be a mistake in that headline.

Categories Energy Tags driving trends, Fracking, gasoline prices, oil prices, oil production, peak oil, unconventional oil Leave a comment

Why Peak Oil Refuses to Die

December 15, 2020September 2, 2014 by Richard Heinberg

Peak oil and climate change are two sides of the same coin. The coin itself represents our reliance on fossil fuels and their unique energetic benefits.

Categories Energy Tags climate change, end of growth, fossil fuel dependency, Fossil Fuels, peak oil, Renewable Energy Leave a comment

Peak Oil Review – Sept 1

December 15, 2020September 1, 2014 by Tom Whipple

A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs

Categories Energy Tags Geopolitics & Military, Oil, peak oil Leave a comment
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