richjoy

What I'm Reading This Week: Commodities, Inflation and BRICs

Peak Oil--Have we passed it?...When will we reach it?...What about the oil yet to be discovered in deep waters using technologies just now becoming available?...What about the oil to be discovered on our own coastal shelf and ANWAR?...What about our own thousands of wells 'shut-in' in the 80s?

Fighting over Peak Oil is getting us no closer to a solution.

However, the fact that worldwide demand for oil is exceeding (present) supply is resulting in higher and higher monetary and social costs to meet the world's need of oil...thus clearly forcing us all to the realization that the world must broaden its energy sources to include wind, solar, biomass, nuclear, tidal, geothermal (and any I forgot to list).

The higher cost of oil will be its own demise (thankfully). The sooner we bring more alternatives to the marketplace, the sooner the cost of oil will fall...and the sooner we will have a foreign policy that actually represents our national values.