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Peak Oil - Are We There Yet?

Oil-finder:
Read the Peak Oil proponents theories a little more closely, they never talk about reserves like you do, it is al about how much you can produce...i.e. flowrates. I notice your "catalog" of discoveries has almost no flowrates. Therefore not much relevant to the Peal Oil theory.

Brian Pursley you have the same problem, regardless of how it is formed, how much can you flow?

The factor that is very concerning to me though is reduced oil demand due to a world-wide depression/deflation..... that case, the price of oil may decline neck and neck with declining demand.

What Happened to Peak Oil?

JJason,
You have no clue about why we have energy problems. Speculation is not the core issue, not even close. Quit wasting our time with your repetitive know-nothing posts.
I have an idea, why don't you do some research on other sites about the peak oil problem?
You won't find much about speculation being the problem. Even if the US government did "something" about it, guess what, there are other commodity exchanges to trade on other than Nymex.

Crude Oil Finding a Bottom? The Great China-Olympics Canard

Dream on Alan, if we ever get $20 oil again it will be because of a world wide depression/collapse...

What We Can Do To Reverse the Oil Crisis

I see stockaccumulator has another stock he/she is shilling for...must have gotten over PBR...

What We Can Do To Reverse the Oil Crisis

Yeah jjason, the Democrats you are whining too I am sure are going to "do something" about it. I see where they are now introducing the legislation you are dying to have implemented...to control those damn speculators, and take oil out of the strategic reserve. What great code pink ideas...typical. You are going to be very surprised when over the next couple of years those ideas gain nothing but to waste our time. And that is what we have the least of

But don't get me wrong, Democrats and Republicans are both responsible for where we are. This article is pure crap to just blame Bush.

Why $140/Barrel Crude is Unsustainable

I don't even know why anyone talks about the "mantle-produced" oil in the context of how much energy we have. If you can't produce it significantly above the 85MM bbls per day that we are already producing, then it is IRRELEVANT where it comes from. Maybe a site focusing on geology would be a better venue...

On Oil and Its Manipulation

All of you guys griping about the speculators should read Dan S1's reply...the specultors make and lose money on each other. At the end of each month they all settle up.
There is not true effect on the price...it's all about population, demand, and hoarding through countries not allowing drilling (including the US)...so get over trying to find the boogie man. The boogie man is us.

So You Think Oil’s Expensive Now?

King of Sanity...you have taken the exact correct approach. High prices are their own solution. Unless, of course, the idiots in Congress try to get involved.

The 'Peak Oil' Myth: New Oil Is Plentiful

anaconda, I don't think it matters that a textbook defines "peak" as half produced. In the context of peak oil it is about flow rates not reserves. I think longoil did a great job of explaining this.

As to your contention that we are now in a "moderate to quiet period of regeneration", if the regeneration does not provide the oil flows we need today, and the over 100 we need in the future, then we have "peak oil", i.e. peak flow rates and a shortage.

Same way with not being able to drill the west coast. With your slow generation rate and the delays in drilling...same thing not enough flow.

Demand destruction will help, of course, but remember those overseas consumers don't have the same (well mostly) cheapened currency that we do.

And by the way I am not a shill for anything. So don't include everyone who thinks we have reached peak flow rates as being in on the "conspiracy".

Can Saudi Arabia Push Down the Price of Oil?

MNSL, I don't think the Saudis can do it. And I don't think demand is going to go down enough. That said, I can't say you might not be right for the short term. As to this being the longest commodity bull market ever, I don't think is is anywhere near that.

Can Saudi Arabia Push Down the Price of Oil?

Sure, tax the oil companies and give the money back to the consumers...dumb, dumb solution to cure a problem of using too much oil. Of course Hugo Chavez is doing that and Mexico is doing that...and just look how much additional oil they are finding/producing!

Oil Prices and Political Energy

I totally agree with you Loup-Garou...so very sad.

Oil Prices and Political Energy

I notice today in an article that many of the OPEC countries are wondering why we aren't drilling out own lands, but expect them to produce everything they can. I can see their point.

And to [e-mail].... are a blithering partisan idiot and a prime example about why we have such difficulties in coming to a rational consensus to solve these problems...

Speculators Continue to Drive Oil Higher at Risk of Global Recession

jjason...Everyone has opinions, but at least mine are my own, not some links (that I have mostly read before). Point of fact is today, oil down 4+ dollars...so did speculation go down over night.??

Try to learn something about how futures work...scfranklin tried to tell you...but in your case, I guess cluelessness is genetic...

Speculators Continue to Drive Oil Higher at Risk of Global Recession

It is baseless articles such as this that make our clueless government try to regulate free markets. This author has no valid points.