Quick links to a few items I found interesting.
Category Archives: energy
Commodity prices and resource scarcity
How has the world managed to increase both population and living standards on a finite planet?
Peak oil interview
Here’s a link to an interview on peak oil and other topics that I did with RT TV.
Oil and gasoline prices: many still missing the big picture
Gasoline prices in the United States have risen sharply recently, leading some newspapers to round up the usual suspects.
Tight oil making a difference
Oil produced from tight formations in the United States inaccessible before the days of horizontal fracturing is now accounting for 4.3% of total global crude oil production, according to new estimates released by the EIA last week.
Graphs of key economic trends
Here are some graphs of economic data that illustrate some interesting trends.
Relaxing restrictions on U.S. exports of oil and natural gas
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have prompted some discussion of revisiting U.S. policy on exports of oil and natural gas.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) last week called for faster Energy Department approval of facilities to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) called for lifting the ban on U.S. crude oil exports. Here I offer an assessment of these proposals.
Big oil companies spending more and producing less
From the Wall Street Journal:
Links for 2014-01-19
Quick links to a few items I found of interest.
A lack of ethics
David Kocieniewski of the New York Times is guilty of some outrageously bad journalism in the form of a groundless ad hominem attack on the reputation of two professors for the sole purpose of reinforcing the prejudices of his misinformed readers.