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POPSPeak Oil A pessimistic, but realistic, look into the not-too-distant future.
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POPS"The tragic comedy of suburban sprawl" [podcast] Suburbia is a cartoon of country living in a cartoon of a house with a cartoon of a front lawn. It has all the worst aspects of being isolated out in the boonies, and none of the benefits of living in a city. It is a lifestyle that will come grinding to a halt once people realize that the cheap oil and fossil fuels that made the entire living arrangement possible are a thing of the past as The Long Emergency dawns on us.
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POPSSurge for the Dollar Despite Global Fears The dollar surged to a two-year high against the pound and a six-month peak against the euro on Friday, as fears about spreading economic gloom triggered a sell-off in commodities. Against sterling, the US currency notched up its 11th consecutive day of gains – its longest uninterrupted rise in more than 35 years – as markets became increasingly convinced that the US was best-placed to weather the global downturn. The Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, a benchmark for commodities, fell more than 2.5 per cent to its lowest level since late March. The index has fallen almost 20 per cent since an all-time high in July, but is still 22 per cent higher than a year ago.
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POPSUS Best Place to Put Your Money Seems our economy is better than the Euros or the Japanese... Don't look for the MSM to report that, though, it interferes with their narrative that only the O-mentum can cure our ills... maybe the world isn't so infatuated with Obama after all...
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POPSThe Oil Factor: Behind The War on Terror Peak Oil is a reality that will change almost everything about how we live our lives. The so-called War on Terror is just an excuse for the US to seize by force the remaining stocks of oil in the Middle East. And 9/11 was they excuse they needed to rally support and quash dissent. Convenient that it happened that way, no?
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POPSPeak Oil: The end of travel as we now know it ... And then, like in the medieval age, society will split into two groups: the mobile, and the stranded. If fuel prices stay high and if governments don't step in to help, fares will jump, and people in the bottom third of average household income will rarely be able to afford to fly, if at all, says Henry Harteveldt, vice-president and principal analyst of U.S.-based Forrester Research. Harteveldt says airlines in North America are only profitable in their current form if oil costs $100 U.S. or less a barrel. Right now, it's at $124. Harteveldt says the next generation of fuel-efficient airplanes, which companies like General Electric are working on, will not be ready for five or six years. That won't be fast enough.
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POPSPeak Price Oil Instead of running out of oil, we may run out of money: Peak Price Oil can create a world where gas, food and heat are available but at a price only the wealthy can afford. Civil societies may collapse, and social unrest explode.
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POPSl’énergie nucléaire "Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and Al Gore have both confirmed that they see nuclear power as a necessary part of the nation's future "energy mix"—a view also shared by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a growing number of congressional Democrats, as well as a handful of environmentalists who support the nuclear option as an imperfect but unavoidable alternative to global warming and response to peak oil."
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POPSOil "Jump" Dow "How High"? But more notable than the recent consistency of the general counter-trend (i.e. stocks move up when oil moves down and vice versa) is the strength of the magnitude correlation. If you were to predict that stocks would move in perfect opposition to oil prices (offset downward by 1%), you could map the price movement of the Dow fairly well over the last two weeks. This is particularly interesting if you think the commodity fever has finally broken and the oil bubble has plenty more deflating to do. Bear in mind that at $121 per barrel, we've receded to May 2008 levels, but we're still more than 50% higher than we were just a year ago, so there may be a lot of room below.
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POPS2016, No more oil. What might that look like... Worldwide instability, economic recession & depression, endless gas-station lines, VIOLENCE at those long, temper-straining gas-lines... We need to start taking stock of our lives and start making other plans. Life as we have known it in America IS NO LONGER AN OPTION.
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POPSHow The Greens Captured Energy Policy Other aspects of the Green argument have also collapsed. New discoveries off Brazil and in the Gulf of Mexico have nearly doubled international oil reserves, pushing backwards from the "peak oil" date. And global warming, that notorious by-product of "oil addiction," has faded to the point that its advocates are now reduced to threatening dissenters with prison. It has gone almost completely unacknowledged that with oil shale, offshore deposits, and new resources such as the hydrocarbon sludge deposits off B.C. and Alaska, the OPEC of the late 21st century is going to be right here. That's a goal worth working toward. Breaking the power of the Greens is yet another possible benefit. Energy reform is an egg and rock situation for the Democrats. From the old Irish proverb: "When the rock hits the egg, alas for the egg. When the egg hits the rock, alas for the egg."
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POPSAlternative Energy News This site is an open source for news and information about renewable energy technologies. Browse the articles and press releases, the latest news, discussion forums, and mix-up of other media from sources like Flickr and YouTube. Our goal is to raise awareness about clean energy sources using any means necessary. Got an idea? Contact us.
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POPSBye bye driving CIBC World Markets has projected $200/barrel oil prices by 2010. Even Wall Street is recognizing that the party is over.
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