Finite Resources Still Finite!
Dealing with finite resources (such as oil) has its drawbacks.
View ArticleAnother Pleasant Peak Oil Debunking Collides With Facts
So close….This would be such a great story if it weren’t for the facts….Damn!
View ArticleGeology Is Unimpressed
Facts and reality continue to screw up the narrative offered by fossil fuel industry cheerleaders that all is well and we are at the dawn of an almost completely worry-free future of limitless supplies...
View ArticleFull Disclosure About Energy - What A Concept!
In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrators of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Supply: The Problem
What a relief!Contrary to popular belief, peak oil alarmists and Greenpeace propaganda, the world is still and will continue to be for at least a century, largely powered by oil. And not just for...
View ArticleNot Getting What We’ve Bargained For
Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry’s upstream investments have registered an astronomical increase, but these ever higher levels of capital expenditure have yielded ever smaller increases...
View Article“Feel-Good Headlines” Not The Best Source For Energy Policy
Perhaps those claiming that the U.S. may one day be energy-independent will be proven right. Perhaps as tight oil production begins to wind down, other alternatives will be found in sufficient...
View ArticleA Little Perspective (& A Fact or Two) Goes A Long Way
Ever the contrarian, I have been quite skeptical of the many breathless claims being made by wide swaths of the media about how a new energy bonanza is going to overtake the U.S. and eventually the...
View ArticleThe Oil Supply Challenge Isn't That Complicated
What has the pursuit of oil cost us? Who pays the highest cost? Who reaps the benefits? How far are we willing to go? And what is the upside of continuing to rely on carbon-based fuels--whether it's...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Magic
The implications [of future fossil fuel production possibilities] are vast.
View ArticleFacts: Difficult to Ignore
Population is a sensitive subject, but it is noteworthy that by 2050, oil supply will have fallen to a level able to support less than half the current population in its present way of life
View ArticleAll The Facts Leads To Better Planning
An observation worth noting … and pondering, from J. David Hughes:A new energy dialogue is needed in the U.S. with an understanding of the true potential, limitations, and costs—both financial and...
View ArticleDifferent Worlds, But One Reality
Peak Oil (and climate change) are—to those of us who do accept the evidence and expert assessments—serious, fact-based realities which will soon enough impose some rather unpleasant, widespread, and...
View ArticleEnergy Supply Abundance - Not
Gail Tverberg shares some of the most insightful observations about the connection between economic growth and energy. In an article posted at her website several weeks, she raised issues which are too...
View ArticleA Big Serving Of Energy Supply Nonsense
Apparently, the possibility that some innovations might be introduced, if they aren’t already in an undefined but probably—or at least likely—manner in certain instances where there could be some...
View ArticleEnergy Supply Nonsense, Part Deux
Keeping citizens uninformed, if not entirely unaware of not just the facts but an understanding about consequences, isn’t exactly a noble, integrity-laden pursuit. So why keep doing so? What’s the...
View ArticleIt’s The Problem, Not The Solution
Contrary to popular belief, peak oil alarmists and Greenpeace propaganda, the world is still and will continue to be for at least a century, largely powered by oil. And not just for transport. An...
View ArticleOil Production Rates Matter
Another excellent observation worth noting and pondering, fromChris Nelder (links in original):I really didn’t think I’d have to say this again, but peak oil is about data, and specifically data about...
View ArticleTwo Sides To Most Oil Production Stories
An observation worth noting … and pondering, from Anne B. Ryan:We cannot all be official, designated leaders, but if leadership is about taking risks and bringing other people along in a new vision,...
View ArticleAnother Nice Story
From the BBC’s David Shukman [quoting independent oil producer Fred Holmes]:‘There's still plenty of oil - we just haven't got all of it out of the ground yet. There's not a real danger of there being...
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