Over the past year, American drivers have found themselves longing for the days when two dollars per gallon seemed expensive. Oil prices are rising at an unprecedented rate, and as a result, many are questioning whether the Earth's available oil supply has reached its peak. Are there still oceans of oil awaiting our discovery? How much pain you'll be feeling at the pump in the future depends on the answer.
Seeking Alpha - 19 Hours Ago
For example, six months ago the oil market was gripped by hysterical fear regarding the deteriorating secular supply growth trend (although Peak Oil is a ...
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Grist Magazine - November 17, 2008
Against this background, I suggest that the peak oil community minimize its efforts to awaken the world to the near-term dangers of world oil supply. ...
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Grist Magazine - November 17, 2008
To ExxonMobil, peak oil is a non-issue, global warming is no big deal, and renewable energy is for sissies. And for the New York Times, what ExxonMobil says ...
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Supply Chain Digest - November 16, 2008
We aren’t finding much new supply (Peak Oil and all that). There is always the possibility of terrorism, and the right event could shoot prices way up. ...
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Times Online - November 16, 2008
Hopkins was a lecturer at a college in Kinsale, Co Cork, when he first saw The End of Suburbia, a documentary about the notion of “peak oil”. ...
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Seeking Alpha - November 16, 2008
B. Peak oil is now universally understood and energy is no longer the investment secret is was when I started this website about 18 months ago. ...
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Seeking Alpha - November 16, 2008
Peak Oil Theory tends to answer this question. Oil resources are finite; this is irrefutable. It is equally true that no one knows just how finite they are ...
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Wired News - November 14, 2008
... of any type, will eventually cause serious environmental damage, merely shifting the world's energy problem from "Peak Oil" to "Peak Soil". ...
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Motley Fool - November 14, 2008
Peak Oil Theory? Gasoline at $10 a gallon? In addition to industry concerns that a recession could cause oil demand to decline, research suggests that ...
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Wall Street Journal Blogs - November 14, 2008
Should the deans of the peak-oil movement give the world a break and shelve their dire warnings of impending supply shortages? So urges Robert Hirsch, ...
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Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - November 14, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 23 hours ago
The IEA estimate of a 6.7% annual production decline in post-peak oil fields is considerably higher than older estimates. It represents an enormous ...
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Arab News - November 13, 2008
pronouncing with all the strength in their possession that ‘Peak Oil’ was just round the corner and that some of the super giant fields of the world were ...
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The Independent Weekly - November 12, 2008
And according to proponents of Peak Oil theory, which was seemingly confirmed in the early 1970s by the rapid drop-off in domestic oil production, ...
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Wall Street Journal Blogs - November 12, 2008
Lower oil prices these days are both a result of the economic slowdown and a possible cushion. But they could be a very mixed blessing. ...
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Commodity Online - November 12, 2008
Finally, the International Energy Agency took the fears of peak oil by 2030 and threw them where they belong: on the trash heap of failed theories. ...
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The Oil Drum - November 12, 2008
Despite growing awareness of peak oil, infrastructure planners have either ignored the phenomenon altogether or explicitly rejected the likely impacts. ...
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The Oil Drum - November 11, 2008
ASPO The official site of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas. Energy Bulletin Clearing house for news regarding the peak in global energy ...
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The Oil Drum - November 11, 2008
In the second post in this series on suburbia and peak oil, I’ll consider one of the threats that peak oil poses to suburbia: the increasing cost of ...
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Reuters - November 10, 2008
By Simon Webb DOHA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - French oil and gas giant Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is targeting nuclear energy to drive ...
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The Oil Drum - November 09, 2008
This is the first report from a taskforce of leading UK companies and sounds the alarm bell on peak oil. The group formed around 18 months ago through a ...
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