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Peak oil gets pepper sprayed

By Erik Curren | November 22, 2011

Peak oil curve with Hubbert and pepper spray cop

How many Saudi Arabias did you say that was? It's hard to keep up these days with claims by oil and gas drillers about how many Saudi Arabia-sized reserves of tar sands oil/shale oil/deepwater oil/hydrofracked gas that North America is now allegedly able to access due to the smarts of petroleum geologists and the tenacity of oilmen. "Because of better technology, notably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: ASPO-US, Big Oil, Daniel Yergin, hydrofracking, Oil Drum, pepper spray cop, tar sands

Who’s afraid of Daniel Yergin?

By Erik Curren | September 26, 2011

Daniel Yergin

Maybe you've tried arguing with a Fox News fan about global warming? Soon, you could start having the same kind of time-wasting exchanges about peak oil and energy depletion. The good news is that unlike climate change, most people haven't even heard of peak oil. That's certainly a challenge, but it's also an opportunity to help the public get it right from the beginning. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Energy Tagged With: CERA, Daniel Yergin, peak oil, peak oil skeptics, petroleum politics, Steven Colbert

Is the peak oil debate really over?

By Erik Curren | January 3, 2011

hand holding a white flag

Just because a variety of authorities said in 2010 that the world had reached peak oil already and that its consequences for industrial society would be profound, it doesn't mean that energy cornucopians have raised the white flag. Quite the opposite. They're actually claiming victory. Yes, the International Energy Agency said that conventional oil peaked in 2006, the US … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: China, communication, cornucopians, Daniel Yergin, James Howard Kunstler, Jan 2011, Michael Ruppert, Robert Hirsch

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