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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 89.15 | -0.01 | -0.01% | ||
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 90.37 | -1.56 | -1.70% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 90.18 | +0.61 | +0.68% | ||
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Mars US • 166 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 52 mins | 2.733 | +0.004 | +0.15% |
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 90.37 | -1.56 | -1.70% | ||
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Girassol • 23 hours | 90.93 | -1.38 | -1.49% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 90.18 | +0.61 | +0.68% |
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Peace Sour • 15 hours | 78.03 | -0.58 | -0.74% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 15 hours | 81.08 | -0.58 | -0.71% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 15 hours | 88.03 | -0.58 | -0.65% | ||
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Central Alberta • 15 hours | 78.43 | -0.58 | -0.73% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 81.84 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 81.75 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 75.50 | -0.25 | -0.33% | ||
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Buena Vista • 6 days | 89.36 | +0.64 | +0.72% |
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Gail Tverberg
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.
Latest articles from Gail
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Developed Economies Could Stagnate As Fossil Fuels Reach Their Limits
Historical data show that to date, a reduction in energy availability has mostly affected the US, European countries, Japan, and other advanced economies. I expect…
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Looking at the Pros and Cons of Biden’s Decision To Halt LNG Exports
In the US, companies that want to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals need to get advance approval for their plans from the US…
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10 Reasons Why the World Can’t Run Without Fossil Fuels
It is now popular to talk about leaving fossil fuels to prevent climate change. Pretty much the same result occurs if we run short of…
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2024 Will Be a Critical Year for the Global Economic System
We know that the age of peak performance for humans varies, depending upon the activity. Peak performance for an athlete tends to come between ages…
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How Today’s Energy Bottlenecks Could Bring Down Major Governments
Recently, I explained the key role played by diesel and jet fuel. In this post, I try to explain the energy bottleneck the world is facing because…
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India's Advantage In The Global Energy Squeeze
I was recently asked to be a keynote speaker for World Management Conference (WMC 2023) in Patna, India. The academic group that asked me to speak was…
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A World Running On Empty: The Decline Of Fossil Fuel Supply
For many years, there has been a theory that imports of oil would become a problem before there was an overall shortage of fossil fuels.…
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The Looming Oil Crisis The World Is Ignoring
It has recently become clear to me that heavy oil, which is needed to produce diesel and jet fuel, plays a far more significant role…
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How Inadequate Energy Supply Is Disrupting The World Economy
A common belief is that if the world does not have adequate energy, the result will be high prices. These high prices will allow more…
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Understanding The Economic Realities Behind Wind And Solar Energy
A major reason for the growth in the use of renewable energy is the fact that if a person looks at them narrowly enough–such as…
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The Very Bumpy Path Ahead For The Global Economy
In the post-World War II era, the US has been known for its hegemony–in other words, its leadership role in the world economy. According to one…
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There’s No Quick Fix For Our Energy Inflation Problem
There is a reason for raising interest rates to try to fight inflation. This approach tends to squeeze out the most marginal players in the…
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The Global Energy Squeeze Is Riskier Than We Thought
Most people have a simple, but wrong, idea about how the world economy will respond to “not enough energy to go around.” They expect that…
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The Fatal Flaw Of The Renewable Revolution
Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree…
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2023: Expect A Financial Crash And Major Changes In Global Energy Markets
Why is the economy headed for a financial crash? It appears to me that the world economy hit Limits to Growth about 2018 because of…
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The Global Economy Is Finally Realizing That Fossil Fuels Are Finite
The problem is hitting limits in the extraction of fossil fuels We know that historically, many economies around the world have collapsed. We also know…
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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before
Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3% per year in the 2001…
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The World’s Economy Needs Fossil Fuels To Thrive
Time and time again, financial approaches have worked to fix economic problems. Raising interest rates has acted to slow the economy and lowering them has…
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Ramping Up Renewables Won’t Save The World From A Cold Winter
We usually don’t think about the wonderful service fossil fuels provide in terms of being a store of heat energy for winter, the time when…
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The World’s Energy Problem Is Far Worse Than We’re Being Told
No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil,…
