Gail Tverberg is a writer and speaker about energy issues. She is especially known for her work with financial issues associated with peak oil. Prior to getting involved with energy issues, Ms. Tverberg worked as an actuarial consultant. This work involved performing insurance-related analyses and forecasts. Her personal blog is ourfiniteworld.com. She is also an editor of The Oil Drum.
Recently, the International Energy Agency’s Chief Economist Fatih Birol was quoted as saying, In the next 10 years, more than 90% of the growth in…
When I write about high oil prices having an adverse impact on the economy, quite a few readers respond by saying, “No, most (or all)…
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a report called Report on the first Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR), which has as its purpose helping…
Saturday, September 17, the WSJ ran an essay by Daniel Yergin called, “There Will Be Oil.” In the essay, Yergin argues that the advocates of…
The EIA published International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO 2011) on September 19, showing energy projections to 2035. One summary stated, “Global Energy Use to Jump…
What would humans have to do to really live sustainability with the world’s ecosystems? I got a shock when I read about the pattern of…
Will plug-in cars be a success? If by success, we mean “sell lots of vehicles” the answer is probably “no” unless the price comes down…
Theoretically, we have a very large amount of resources of many kinds available–oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, gold, fresh water. There is a relatively small…
The way the price of gold keeps rising, a person might think that no matter what the downturn, gold would prove to be a good…
The issues we are confronted with today seem to be a subset of the issues foretold in the book Limits to Growth back in 1972.…
People wonder what has been happening recently, with wildly gyrating financial markets and government debt problems. It seems to me that we are bumping up…
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the country that was the “big growth story” was the Soviet Union. Its oil consumption grew by leaps and…
Most people assume that the mismatch between US federal government revenue and expenses will go away, with enough time. All that is needed is a…
The amount of oil that is extracted from the ground each year has been close to flat since 2005, regardless of what has happened to…
In Part 1 of this post, I pointed out that an economy is closely linked with the resources that underly it. Because of this, if…
There is really a two-way link between peak oil and peak debt: 1. Peak oil tends to cause peak debt. Some will argue with me…
Will uranium supply be adequate for planned nuclear electricity? This question has seen sharply differing views. The purpose of this post is to give an…
We have all read about the standard “fixes” for a governmental debt problem – (1) inflate your way out of the problem, (2) cut programs…
The International Energy Association (IEA) announced a plan on Thursday last week to make 60 million barrels of oil available to the market over the next…
It seems to me that most policymakers have missed some basic issues with respect to our energy problem. One of these is that world oil…