The Peak Oil Crisis: Supply Shock
By Tom Whipple A new phrase, “supply shock,” entered the lexicon of the global oil business this week when the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that unexpectedly rapid growth in tight oil...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: China at a Turning Point, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
This spring, I spent three weeks traveling around China and needless to say, I, along with every other visitor, was impressed by the economic progress the Chinese have made in the years since the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s ‘Snake Oil’
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute Richard Heinberg has been following and writing about peak oil for a long time. In the last decade, he has published 10 books on peak oil and related resource...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: The Middle East in Context
By Tom Whipple Post Carbon Institute While awaiting further developments in the Syrian poison gas crisis, it is a good time to review the general deterioration going on across the Middle East and the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Our Harsh Winter Continues, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
Two weeks ago we discussed the impact that the polar vortex was having on our natural gas supplies and noted that our stocks of natural gas were already 500 billion cubic feet below where they should...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Revisiting Natural Gas
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute A couple of months back I noted that the U.S. was burning through the stocks of natural gas we store in underground caverns at an unprecedented rate. These are the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing 2014
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute Some 15 years ago when the current concept of peak oil was posited, it was all going to be simple. Somewhere in the early part of the 21st century oil production...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Iraq on the Precipice, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
The daily newspapers are now full of stories predicting that Iraq, as we know it, will soon disintegrate into three or more warring states. In the last two weeks Sunni insurgents led by the extremist...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: When?
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute For those following the world oil production situation, it has been clear for some time that the only factor keeping global crude output from moving lower is the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: A Reality Check
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute For the last four or five years, we have been bombarded with a stream of stories about the “shale revolution.” Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis, Post Carbon Institute
By Tom Whipple I know that it is getting harder all the time to believe that there really is a “peak oil crisis” lurking out there waiting to engulf our civilization and create all sorts of havoc....
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