Ilargi: Why the Energy Crisis is Coming Sooner Than Most Experts Forecast
Why the timeframe for replacing oil is much shorter than most experts believe, making a crisis almost impossible to avoid.
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Could Falling Chinese Oil Production Kill The OPEC Deal?
Why China will influence any OPEC deal in November, and some broader implications.
Read more...The Billion Barrel Oil Swindle: 80% Of U.S. Oil Reserves Are Unaccounted-For
Oil inventories are at record highs since the price collapse in 2014 and are a major factor keeping prices low. Are they overstated?
Read more...We’re Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change
On why the case for combatting climate change is more urgent than ever, and what can be done about it.
Read more...Smoke And Mirrors: What Did OPEC Really Agree On?
Why there is less than meets the eye to the OPEC plan to cut production at the end of November.
Read more...Fade OPEC
Is the OPEC production cut set to be finalized at the end of November the real deal?
Read more...Oil And Gas Bankruptcies Set To Double This Year
Heavily indebted oil and gas companies have managed to hold off the day of reckoning, but analysts expect bankruptcies to spike.
Read more...Dakota Access Pipeline: The Wrong Side of a Long, Long History of Resource Extraction
On the bogus economic case for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Read more...Major Insurers to G20 Nations: Stop Wasting Time, Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020
Insurers and finance pressure governments to end $444 billion in fossil fuel subsidies.
Read more...Oil Booms Leave the Poor in the Dark
One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is to know where it is. This column describes a new way to measure poverty by using satellites to count people who live in darkness at night. This shows that the economic benefits of oil booms don’t trickle down to the very poor.
Read more...Could a Lithium Shortage De-Rail the Electric Car Boom?
Will lithium be the next plastics?
Read more...What Will You Do When The Lights Go Out? The Inevitable Failure Of The US Grid
Power grid failure and coupled systems
Read more...Big Oil Increasingly Funding Dividends With Borrowing
Borrowing to prop up dividends…what could go wrong?
Read more...Emergy (with an “m”) and Environmental Accounting for Maine’s Landfill
Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Despite Low Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Stabilizing Economy
Saudi Arabia is getting a handle on managing its budget and economy in the face of ow oil prices. That could have long-term ramifications.
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