In a recent working paper, researchers at the the IMF attempt to reconcile the Peak Oil debate that whether resource constraints will dictate the future of oil output and prices, or advance in technology motivated by high oil price would eventually ...
QFINANCE via Google News
2012-05-22 09:56:09
Perhaps the greatest environmental and economic challenge of our age is that we have substantially depleted our oil reserves, and entered the era of 'peak oil'. Reading about this in the abstract, the problem sounds both dreary and chilling - a reason ...
The Ecologist via Google News
2012-05-22 07:21:31
In addition to the fundamental supply/demand imbalance resulting from a combination of population growth, wealth accumulation in previously smaller economies, and peak oil is the geopolitical environment that is increasingly characterized by tension ...
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2012-05-21 16:29:19
Dr. James Murray, professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington will address the collision of rising demand for oil with the inelastic supply including increases in production of non-convention oil sources in his presentation Peak Oil at 7 ...
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2012-05-21 15:27:04
“The other thing that we've learned in the last few years … is the peak oil theory is bunk,” he said. It turns out that the availability of oil and gas supplies is determined by people's imagination, their ability to harness innovative technology and ...
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2012-05-18 13:48:20
Alternative transport stock valuations are good, too. At a price of 236 pence, Stagecoach paid a 3.1% dividend last year, and has raised its dividend for the last four. The P/E ratio (based on 2011 earnings) is 9.9. That's a pretty good valuation for a growing company which will gain from rising oil prices, and is likely to do well from budget tightening
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2012-05-18 09:58:15
Amazingly, a growing chorus of analysts are arguing that the peak oil debate is over and the US will soon achieve energy independence. I agree. It is over, and the US will soon achieve energy independence. However, the implications of this are negative ...
Examiner.com via Google News
2012-05-18 09:09:12
Terms such as 'global warming,' 'peak oil,' and 'environmental crisis' are bandied about and hotly contested or, worse, ignored by the public. But a 30 percent rate hike in the average electricity bill? That gets your attention.
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2012-05-18 04:11:09
"Peak oil" is becoming a reality, not in supply terms, but in demand. This is only the beginning of a major long term trend that still has decades to run. Obama's move to raise mileage on US made cars from 25 to 55 miles per gallon by 2025 will have a ...
Crude Oil Price, Commodity Prices & Crude Oil Analysis at Oil Price via Google News
2012-05-17 18:03:44
Several articles in the international media in recent months have claimed that worries about peak oil – the peak and decline in yearly world oil production – are unfounded because vast new reserves of unconventional oil are coming on stream.
Creamer Media's Engineering News via Google News
2012-05-17 17:31:33
“Peak oil is not about what you can drill. We're never going to run out of oil or coal. It's about what our economies can afford to burn,” he argues. “So it doesn't matter that there is 170 billion barrels of oil in the tar sands.
Calgary Herald via Google News
2012-05-17 10:21:12
“In lifting those reserves, we've raised doubts about the eminence of peak oil.” Technology has allowed the industry to cut the cost of production, increase the volume of fossil fuels captured, reduce environmental impacts and reach previously ...
Daily Markets (blog) via Google News
2012-05-16 22:45:23
Luckily for the shale-oil lobby (and unluckily for Republican oil demagogues), while we may not have seen “peak oil” yet we have already passed a more telling tipping point: that of “peak cheap oil, and, says the IMF, we may soon have a permanent ...
Independent Voter Network via Google News
2012-05-16 17:31:54
An inspirational idea which offers solutions to address the climate change issue, and the upcoming crisis of peak oil is “Transition Towns.” The film first debuted in the UK as a new community design inspired by the ideas of local economy and ...
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2012-05-16 13:59:21
