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Apr 26, 2016
by Nafeez Ahmed, Alternet
It’s not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry. Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas—which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs—the industry is rapidly crumbling.
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Apr 18, 2016
by Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
A recent vacation afforded me the opportunity to read The Oracle of Oil, Mason Inman’s excellent new biography of Marion King Hubbert.
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Apr 11, 2016
by Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The focal point of The Oracle of Oil is Hubbert’s distinction as the first person to recognize the phenomenon of peak oil.
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Mar 31, 2016
by Chris Nelder, Mason Inman
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Many have heard of peak oil, but few seem to understand what it really means, and fewer still know much of anything about the father of the idea, M. King Hubbert.
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Mar 21, 2016
by Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World
We don’t just extract fossil fuels. Instead, whether we intend to or not, we get a lot of other things as well: rising debt, rising pollution, and a more complex economy.
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Mar 9, 2016
by Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's Legacy
The projections that had been circulating during the past few months turned out to be correct. Now, it is official: the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peaked in 2014 and went down in 2015. And this could be a momentous change.
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Mar 8, 2016
by Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
The recent deployment of missile launchers and jet fighters on Woody Island of the Paracel islands have put the spotlight on the South China Sea (SCS).
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Feb 23, 2016
by Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015
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Feb 22, 2016
by Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
When Trucks Stop Running makes a convincing case that the US is scarily dependent on truck transportation, and renewable energies will not power a freight system like the one we rely on today. But does this mean a crisis is just around the corner?
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Feb 18, 2016
by Albert Bates, The Great Change
What Big Oil did not tell the pundits was that the unconventionals are a Ponzi scheme, too expensive to compete with renewable energy, made up mostly of a great credit bubble and churning real estate plays.
