My crystal ball says every drilling rig will be working full speed ahead by July 2011. Recession or not, lets remeber Peak Oil isn't just a concept, it's the Prime Mover; the proof being Global Warming won't be a problem when oil hits $300 per barrel. Cap and Trade? We won't even talk about it any more.
Jeff Rubin: Expect Oil Prices to Rise Dramatically and Globalization to End [View article]
The Cost of getting to these new reserves will require triple digit oil prices before it is economically feasible to get at these reserves...
On Sep 25 04:59 AM bluesky123 wrote:
> The "peak oil" theory is being assailed. In the last 1 month there > were announcements of huge oil finds by BP, Petrobras and Tullow > Oil. Chevron's giant nat gas venture in Australia has signed 20 year > supply deals with China and India. Repsol just announced a nat gas > find that might be the largest in the world. We're finding energy > faster than ever and we'll soon be driving electric cars that we > recharge from a solar panel on the roof of the garage. China hired > First Solar to build a solar field the size of Manhattan. Wind energy > projects are soaring around the world. Looks to me like the energy > options are better than ever and oil consumption is going down, not > up (as indicated by the latest China oil consumption figures). More > energy options amount to a tax cut for the US consumer, money the > consumer can spend elsewhere. Oil is going down. Not up.
Plunging property values triggered the global recession? Just a big head fake, CIBC's Jeff Rubin and Peter Buchanan say. They argue triple-digit oil prices are at fault for the current economic woes (.pdf). More here. [View news story]
There weren't enough days of triple-digit oil prices to affect the economy as you say. I don't even need to read the article to know that !!
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On Sep 25 04:59 AM bluesky123 wrote:
> The "peak oil" theory is being assailed. In the last 1 month there
> were announcements of huge oil finds by BP, Petrobras and Tullow
> Oil. Chevron's giant nat gas venture in Australia has signed 20 year
> supply deals with China and India. Repsol just announced a nat gas
> find that might be the largest in the world. We're finding energy
> faster than ever and we'll soon be driving electric cars that we
> recharge from a solar panel on the roof of the garage. China hired
> First Solar to build a solar field the size of Manhattan. Wind energy
> projects are soaring around the world. Looks to me like the energy
> options are better than ever and oil consumption is going down, not
> up (as indicated by the latest China oil consumption figures). More
> energy options amount to a tax cut for the US consumer, money the
> consumer can spend elsewhere. Oil is going down. Not up.
Bullish Signs from Oil [View article]
Plunging property values triggered the global recession? Just a big head fake, CIBC's Jeff Rubin and Peter Buchanan say. They argue triple-digit oil prices are at fault for the current economic woes (.pdf). More here. [View news story]