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ENERGY AGENCY WARNS OF DANGER FROM HIGH OIL PRICES
Peak Oil News Feb 10, 2011 ENERGY AGENCY WARNS OF DANGER FROM HIGH OIL PRICES by Richard Lein PARIS (AFP) - The global recovery will drive oil prices dangerously higher this year, possibly to the level where they could push the economy into a marked slowdown, the IEA warned Thursday. The prospect of rising inflation, driven by oil and other higher commodity prices, coupled with political instability
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The Tierney-Simmons Bet
Five years ago, John Tierney, a columnist with The New York Times, and Matt Simmons, peak oil guru and founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Co., made a bet. Simmons argued that oil prices would be much higher in 2010. Tierney, a believer in human ingenuity and a follower of economist Julian Simon, took the other position. Simon, a so-called Cornucopian, argued that there would always be
Group shifts peak oil attention to Washington with new executive director
New York (Platts) 6 Jan2011/503 pm EST/2203 GMT In a bid to boost its influence on US energy policy, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas-USA has appointed a Washington policy insider and former campaign hand as the group’s full-time director, it said Thursday. Jan Mueller, now a senior policy associate of transportation and energy program associate at the Environmental and Energy
Review January 3, 2011
Download Full PDF Top 10 Developments of 2010 1. Unexpected Growth in Global Demand As the global demand for oil increased during 2010 the IEA was forced to steadily increase its forecast for average annual demand. In January the
Predictions for 2011
(Note: Commentaries do not necessarily represent the ASPO-USA position.) Everyone in the Peak Oil Community knows the danger of making predictions. As the poet Burns framed it, “The best-laid schemes o’Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley.” What gang aft agley more often than our energy and environmental situation these days? Trying to call the future is a challenging project. But
Will 2011 be a rerun of 2008?
We all remember the oil price run-up (and run back down) of 2008. Now, with prices similar to where they were in the fall of 2007, the question quite naturally arises as to whether we are headed for another similar scenario. Of course, we know that the scenario cannot really be the same. World economies are
Reaping Whirlwinds: Peak Oil and Climate Change in the New Political Climate - By Sharon Astyk
Political prognostication is a dangerous game, but one of the certainties of the latest election was that the US will not be enacting any significant federal climate legislation. One could be forgiven for wondering what the election has to do with anything. In the two years previously during which the Democrats controlled Presidency, House and Senate, the US had failed also to enact any climate legislation,
Peak oil and four principles of PR By Kurt Cobb
Peak oil activists and the mass media have had a rocky relationship. Activists often don’t understand how the media works and can’t fathom why reporters and editors are not better informed about energy issues. Those working in the media are constrained by the interests of their advertisers, their corporate owners and the necessity of focusing on ratings and circulation. There is a pervading
Income to rise 564%, predicts Int’l. Economics Agency — By Christine Patton
(Note: There is so much bad news in telling the Peak Oil story that we thought we would lighten things up a bit with a little satire. Ed.) Paris - November 19, 2010 The International Economics Agency today released its World Income Outlook, which predicts a 564 percent increase in the median world income over the next three months. IEA Chief Economics Officer Brandon Blighted explains, “Our meticulous
Videos from 2010 ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference
View the videos from the 2010 ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference in Washington, D.C. http://www.aspo.tv
