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Published 15 May 2012 | viewed 462 times
If I were to stake you $50,000 and set you loose in the world's largest casino, you might try your luck in a big way…
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Published 10 May 2012 | viewed 2,911 times
Faced with increasing political obstacles to oil and natural gas exploration in many countries around the world, the oil industry is focusing again on the…
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Published 24 April 2012 | viewed 719 times
The world's elites don't want to admit it. But the kind of global village that they have insisted on building--a vast free-trade paradise run by…
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Published 16 April 2012 | viewed 1,231 times
Some people seem to have a knack for hopping aboard a trend just before it ends. Cheniere Energy Inc., owner of the largest liquefied natural…
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Published 26 March 2012 | viewed 2,729 times
If you have the power and the desire to bring down oil prices, the best way to proceed is to start bringing them down. The…
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Published 12 March 2012 | viewed 1,069 times
The viability of modern civilization depends on two important dimensions: 1) the continuous availability and deployment of essential resources and 2) the long-term productivity and…
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Published 28 February 2012 | viewed 2,193 times
Which of the following can we count on to act as a “bridge fuel” to a renewable energy economy?
A. OilB. Natural GasC. CoalD. None of the above
The…
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Published 21 February 2012 | viewed 2,061 times
Protestations in the mainstream media that we need not worry about a peak in the rate of world oil production anytime soon are suddenly coming…
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Published 07 February 2012 | viewed 8,043 times
Estimates for recoverable shale gas just keep falling. Last year, the Potential Gas Committee, an industry consortium that focuses on long-term projections, estimated that recoverable…
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Published 29 November 2011 | viewed 1,041 times
So much of the discussion surrounding an extension of the existing Keystone oil pipeline system which spans Canada and the United States assumes that the…
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Published 08 November 2011 | viewed 6,862 times
As oil prices rose ever higher in the last decade, the optimists kept predicting rising production capacity and plummeting prices. Looks like they got it…
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Published 11 October 2011 | viewed 1,741 times
It is with some trepidation that I prepare for a trip that includes an appearance before college students who generally find the idea of peak…
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Published 06 October 2011 | viewed 2,254 times
In the minds of many of those concerned about an imminent rendezvous with peak oil, the day the world slides past the all-time peak in…
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Published 21 September 2011 | viewed 676 times
Last week authorities apprehended a trader for UBS, the huge, international Swiss bank, on suspicion that he lost $2 billion of the bank's money in…
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Published 13 September 2011 | viewed 1,466 times
The following is an attempt to weave together many strands of thought from my writings on energy into a compact briefing for energy policymakers.
If…
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Published 30 August 2011 | viewed 1,066 times
In the 6th century B.C. Athenians gave extraordinary powers to one man to make needed reforms that would deliver Athens from economic stagnation and the…
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Published 02 August 2011 | viewed 1,081 times
Some time ago an economist with whom I had an extensive exchange suggested that the best way to incentivize an energy transition would be to…
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Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 1,386 times
Several years ago a young boy asked me during a presentation if we might be able to pipe in oil and natural gas from the…
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Published 21 July 2011 | viewed 1,031 times
I now make it a staple of my public talks on energy to ask who in the audience has been to Europe. Usually many hands…
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Published 30 June 2011 | viewed 384 times
In late August 1859 the most severe solar storm ever witnessed began and lasted through the first few days of September. It produced vivid auroras…
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