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429. THE "OIL DRUM" BITES THE BAG 31 Jul 2013 | 08:11 pm
It's been a while since I last checked the PO situation, but I did a bit of browsing recently, and it seems that PO has, well, gone down the toilet. I first started following peak oil in August 2004,...
428. EVEN HUBBERT WAS WRONG 15 Nov 2012 | 05:32 pm
The founding myth of "peak oil" has always been Hubbert's 1956 prediction that US oil production would peak in the early 1970s and decline, never to rise again. This myth is being disproved as we spea...
427. PEAK OIL SNOOZE-ATHON CONTINUES 25 Jun 2010 | 10:38 pm
Hi everyone. I've been on a long vacation from peak oil because it's so boring and irrelevant to daily life, but today I'd like to pop back in for an update on the situation. Has anything happened? N...
426. LOCAL FOOD GUZZLES MORE FUEL THAN LONG-DISTANCE FOOD 4 Oct 2009 | 02:59 pm
We're all familiar with the classic Kunstler rap: The age of the 3000-mile-caesar salad will soon be over. Food production based on massive petroleum inputs, on intensive irrigation, on gigantic fact...
425. GOING RURAL FOR PEAK OIL: BAD IDEA 27 Sep 2009 | 01:18 pm
I've often thought that moving to the country is one of dumber things you could do in response to peak oil. My reasoning for this is simple: people in the country have a massive dependence on cars an...
424. OIL AND FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE: LEADERS AND LAGGARDS 23 Sep 2009 | 06:50 pm
Lately, I've been fooling around with the figures from the 2009 BP Statistical Review (BSR) -- in particular the data for "Consumption by Fuel". I've made some surprising discoveries which I'd like to...
423. MIKE RUPPERT, THE "PROPHET" 20 Sep 2009 | 03:27 am
Just when you thought he'd checked himself into a good psychiatric facility.... Mike Ruppert roars back as the star of a new feature film "Collapse". Owen Gleiberman posts a rave review from the Tor...
422. RENEWABLES STATUS REPORT FOR 2008 10 Sep 2009 | 10:13 pm
REN21 has released its Renewables Global Status Report 2009. This table shows the scorecard, as of the end of 2008: The wind build is amazing if you think of it in terms of EV fuel. A typical EV effi...
421. OIL DRUM CENSORING ARTICLES 7 Sep 2009 | 02:34 am
It seems this article by Lionel Badal was too hot for the Oil Drum to handle. I have to admit it's a little bizarre to see the Oil Drum suddenly so eager to paint the IEA in a good light. Is Gail a tr...
420. MATT SIMMONS: THE BUFFOONERY NEVER ENDS 4 Sep 2009 | 01:14 am
Man, this is some funny stuff... our old buddy Matt Simmons is pulling the fire alarm again. Seems there's some crackpots out there making unfounded predictions about natural gas production!!! "In th...
