peak oil

The largest coal company in the states has filed for bankruptcy. Coal prices, along with oil, have plummeted. From a power station perspective and from the consumer perspective, it seems like this would increase demand and be a net bad thing from an environmental perspective but paradoxically...

Hypothesis: The trillions of dollar/euro etc banking bailouts have been used as massive secret subsidies to the oil industry because of global peak oil having been reached already in around the year 2004: "The growth in conventional oil production ended in 2004, and we've been on a bumpy...

Hey guys, I'm delurking in order to draw attention to an article published on Yahoo! NZ by Ken Ring. Remember Ken Ring? He's the guy who claims to be able to predict earthquakes by analysing lunar cycles. He also publishes almanacs predicting a whole year of NZ weather in advance, day by day...

"LONDON—The International Energy Agency warned Wednesday that oil markets are in for a bumpy ride after global oil supply fell by 200,000 barrels a day in February, despite Saudi Arabian production hitting a 30-year high." -- Full story...

I wish to attempt a rational skeptical discussion of economic, social, political, environmental, and technological issues relating to so-called "peak oil" and "peak everything" claims. This will require multiple threads, but I want to begin with some of the basics. At this point, I don't even...

Two military planning organisations went public with studies predicting that serious consequences from oil depletion with dire consequences. These two were later followed up by a draft from a German army study, which went into greater detail about the oil shortfall and what would happen because...

Great piece by John Michael Greer Synopsis : The American middle class is never going to come back and most people will be shut out of it forever. We need to get used to using much much less, and the future of America is that of a third world country on par with Brazil's 1970s era. 1970s...

Ever since I've seen the commercial for the Chevrolet Volt, I'm wondering what effects could these cars have in the long run for gas prices, electricity prices and the energy crisis in general. And while the Volt is an early bird (although the EV1 was fully functional in 1996...) and costs...

UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on...

This is a follow-on from the peak oil thread. A lot of the posts seem to be arguments against either end of the peak oil spectrum (i.e. rabid doomers or complete deniers), and a bit of misunderstanding about what people's actual perspectives are. So, here's a place to state what you think will...

Forgive me if there is a thread on this already. A cursory search led me to none. So I finally watched the documentary "Collapse" recently and I gotta say I was floored. Going off the limited knowledge I have, my understanding is that the fossil fuel OIL will run out at some point within or...

Investment banker, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, energy advisor to Bush/Cheney and author of the iconoclastic book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has died. A tribute from a friend, by Michael C. Ruppert...

"Peak oil used to be the preoccupation of a small minority, but a parliamentary group has been set up to follow the issue and an increasing number of industrialists have begun to worry about it." 'Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil Lord Hunt calls UK...

Hi, The depletion of fossil fuels will impact us in many different ways, as we use oil and gas for many different purposes. Some say that rising fuel prices will bring back local production as transportation costs will rise. So it will make economic sense to produce electronics, clothing and...

Hi! I'm on Hubbert's side on Peak Oil, I just think he missed the world peak by N years, which will be small enough not to matter. But that's neither here nor there for this thread. I just wanted to point out another example of CT thinking. :) But I just heard a funny one. A friend of mine who...

‘A Presidential Energy Policy. Twenty-five Points Addressing the Siamese Twins of Energy and Money.’ by Michael C. Ruppert http://rubiconworks.com/ “Michael Ruppert does not mince his words writing a stirring and uncompromising book on a vital issue. He addresses some simple but widely...

Scary stuff. There are a few people out there saying it - that there is some serious trouble and change coming, and not in some manageable, predictable way. My feeling (and what do I know, really) is that we are on the verge of global catastrophic economic and social changes and those whacky...

Im going say 200 us dollar oil in the next 12 months(diggy's prediction). I say this based that the world's top 4 oil field's in delcline. they are: Garwar the biggest <water injection> sign of oil peak ....the other 3 north sea, north slop, and cantrell. these 4 oil fields produced 18...

Howdy all, I've been wanting to start a thread about Hubbert's Peak / Peak Oil. I'm not sure this should be in the Science thread, as a big part of it is economic in nature, but here goes... So here's my question: Is Hubbert's Peak / Peak Oil woo or not? I know what I think about it, and I...

This is my first post and I wasn’t sure under what category to put this subject but since peak oilers and conspiracy theorists tend to go hand in hand I thought this might be a good place. I’m genuinely curious of what the different takes of the skeptic community has on this subject. I’m a long...

With something of a difference; it focuses on the Peak Oil theory that Mike Ruppert and others espouse. If you understand Peak Oil* you can skip the first 23 minutes or so to get to the 9-11 stuff, which is pretty pathetic, and features the following recycled nonsense: 1. Six of the hijackers...

I've run across the speculation that BP shut down Prudhoe Bay because the output of the field has declined to the point that the company can't push enough oil through the current pipeline at an adequate pressure level. BP plans to replace the old pipeline with one of a smaller diameter to handle...

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/peak_oil/is_peak_oil_a_myth.htm I find it interesting that this Peak Oil disbeliever is also... http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/sheeple_analyst/Holocaust_hoax.htm A Holocaust denier! Not that Peak Oil is proven or...