The Times printed an Op-Ed today written by a guy named Michael Lynch. Mr. Lynch is an “energy consultant.” Mr. Lynch received a liberal amount of space from the Times to skip along on a screed against peak oil theorists, who are made out by him to sound like a crazy cult raising llamas in Nova [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
NY Times Op-Ed today that refutes the theory of Peak Oil. Grade: FAIL.
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Financial Times reviewed $20 Per Gallon today.
From the review:
“…As a thought-provoking introduction to one of the most important forces shaping the 21st century, it can be highly recommended.”
and
“Expensive petrol, he suggests, will bring all sorts of benefits, from lower road deaths and less obesity to tastier, locally grown food. It could also mean the downfall of Wal-Mart and the “carnival of excess” [...]
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Hugo Chavez lives on my block.
Doesn’t he live on yours, too? Or that’s what a new Citgo ad I spied in downtown Chicago seemed to suggest. The ad looms over a train station, of all places.
The billboard depicts a handsome middle-aged fellow with immaculate, swept back silver hair dressed in a Citgo service shirt in front of a [...]
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GM says Volt to get 230 miles per gallon in city.
That’s some robust fuel economy. So when are we going to see this thing on the road, GM? Next year, they say. Should cost about $40,000, which means it will be a kind of novelty car, really. But perhaps the third or fourth generation of the car (if GM can survive [...]
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Gas prices up 19 cents in last 20 days.
That’s a significant increase, no doubt. But we could see a price decrease just as large swing through next week. Day-to-day gasoline prices don’t tell us much about anything; they’re representative of a capricious market that obeys few fundamentals in the short term. The only thing we can count on: long-term gas [...]
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Worried about the rising price of oil ($76) blunting the global economic recovery? You should be.
It’s still under-appreciated how much last year’s $150/barrel oil prices had to do with the economic mess we fell into. For the world economy, it was like trying to run uphill with a parachute on; eventually you’re just going to get tripped up and roll down the hill.
So here we are again, buzzing oil [...]
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$20 Per Gallon is a New York Times Bestseller!
Just learned that it will be on the August 16 list. Booyah.
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The World’s Top Energy Economist: Oil supplies are running out faster than we thought.
This comes from the head of the International Energy Agency, Dr. Fatih Birol. In its largest and most extensive survey ever, the IEA found that most of the world’s biggest oil fields have already gone into slow declines. The agency’s findings were announced this week.
We are in the era of peak [...]
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Out today: Bloomberg review on $20 Per Gallon.
Says James Pressley, a Bloomberg writer in Brussels:
“Steiner did his homework. A civil engineer and staff writer at Forbes magazine, he interviewed people — from economists to airline pilots — who have calculated how oil at various prices will change where we live, how we travel and what we eat.”
You can find the whole [...]
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The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan gives $20 Per Gallon props.
Actually, he just pointed to the NYTimes Q & A and a great review in the National Review by Reihan Salam that I should have mentioned earlier because he’s just so damned nice to me. Reihan liked the book so much that he brought it with him to a party and read it instead [...]
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