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.
What is the correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy? There are clearly huge amounts of oil, coal, and natural…
Why is a finite world a problem? I can think of many answers:1. A finite world is a problem because we and all of the…
There is a lot of confusion about which limit we are reaching with respect to oil supply. There seems to be a huge amount of…
What do diminishing returns, energy return on energy invested (EROI or EROEI), and collapse have to do with each other? Let me start by explaining…
Nearly everyone believes that oil prices will trend higher and higher, allowing increasing amounts of oil to be extracted. This belief is based on the…
A few years ago, I had an ah-ha moment when it comes to what we as humans would need to do to live in a…
How does the world reach limits? This is a question that few dare to examine. My analysis suggests that these limits will come in a…
As the US heads toward debt default and continues with government shutdown, the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear to the American…
If a person reads US newspapers, it is easy to get the impression that all of the world’s oil problems are over. But this is…
What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking…
In my view, oil and gas resource limits are major contributors to the conflict in Syria. This is happening in several ways:1. Syria is an…
We live in a finite world. Clearly, a finite world has limits of many kinds. Yet economists and other researchers use models that assume that…
The story of oil limits is one that crosses many disciplines. It is not an easy one to understand. Most of those who are writing…
We know the world economic pattern we have been used to in years past–world population grows, resource usage grows (including energy resources), and debt increases.…
Does a fish know that its nose is wet? Probably not. It swims in water, and assumes that is the only way any animal lives.We…
A question that seems to come up quite often is, “Are we going to have inflation or deflation?” People want to figure out how to…
My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy…
A June 6, 2013, article from Reuters is titled, “Lawmakers in new drive to slash Iran’s oil sales to a trickle.” According to it,U.S. lawmakers…
The US Energy Information Administration recently released its report showing oil consumption by country updated through 2012. Based on this report, it appears that at…
The energy limit we are running into is a cost limit. I would argue that neither the Republican or Democrat approach to solving the problem…