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.
The United Nations warned recently that the global consumption of natural resources could almost triple to 140 billion tons a year by 2050 unless nations…
Over the years, we have become accustomed to a rising standard of living. One of things that has helped this happen is a gradually declining…
Recently when I was reading some of the papers M. King Hubbert wrote, one thing struck me was the context in which he made his…
Everyone would like to fix the US energy policy, but doing so is almost impossible, in my view, primarily because we need to be planning…
The US Energy Information Administration’s January oil production figures are out, and they show record oil production. Where are we headed from here? While production…
We see endless fighting between the Democrats and Republicans about the budget, but no real explanation as to what the issues are. My view is…
We meet here at a tumultuous time for the world. In a matter of months, we’ve seen regimes toppled and democracy take root across North…
The growth of the human population cannot continue forever—there is a limit to our numbers, even if we cannot specify what that limit might be. …
The usual plan for spent nuclear fuel in the United States is to transfer it to a cooling pool and then after some time to…
We are at a crossroads with respect to nuclear energy, having discovered a new way (or several new ways) that nuclear plants can fail. How…
I want to bring to the attention of readers a recent paper by James Hamilton, called Historical Oil Shocks (also here as a National Bureau…
We are very much reaching limits in the field of energy. This seems to mean that we ending up taking more and more risks, so…
We don’t know precisely how oil supply will work out, but if it declines quickly, we need to think about how we can deal with…
Steve Kopits, Managing Director of Douglas-Westood consulting firm, made a presentation called “Oil, the Economy, and Policy” to the US House of Representatives Energy Subcommittee…
The world holds a huge amount of oil resources. Besides liquid oil, there is very heavy oil in various forms. There is also liquid oil…
The idea that high oil prices cause recessions shouldn’t be any surprise those who have been following my writings, or those of Dave Murphy, or…
We keep hearing about unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa, with Libya being the latest country to get top billing. Why all of…
We have all heard at least a partial explanation as to why West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent prices are so far apart. We have…
Rising food prices, crowned by a recent record high spike and chronicled in the graph below, have played a role in triggering the spread of…
Readers have been asking questions about a couple of shale oil articles recently. One is an AP article called New drilling method opens vast oil…