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The Death of Conventional Oil

Keith Kohl
Posted April 16, 2007

Remember the good old days when oil was $50 a barrel? I know that was only a few months ago--but just wait a few years from now when you're wishing the price for a barrel of sweet crude was below...

Fiercer Than the Race for Oil or Natural Gas

Brian Hicks
Posted April 12, 2007

I have to admit something--I don't know much about nuclear physics. You might not either, but I bet you know what a mushroom cloud looks like. Unfortunately, a filmstrip's worth of familiarity with...

Silent Spring

Brian Hicks
Posted April 12, 2007

Despite the incoherent tweets of a few remaining housing bulls, the much-anticipated spring selling season has largely come and gone without so much as a peep. The only noise left, it seems, is the...

China: Capitalism with an Asterisk

Brian Hicks
Posted April 11, 2007

As my host drove me through the western Chinese city of Xining, he smiled kindly. "Here you can really see socialism," he told me, contrasting this smallish provincial capital with the mega-cities...

Future Watch: Reasons for Optimism

Brian Hicks
Posted April 10, 2007

The future is going to be a very scary place. It'll be dark, grim and even foreboding. At least that’s the story in a piece published in The Guardian yesterday. There will be information chips...

Soothing "Gas OPEC" Fears in Doha

Keith Kohl
Posted April 9, 2007

During the next two days, leading natural gas countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar. These countries control roughly 70% of the world's natural gas reserves. But the Gas Exporting Countries Forum...

Brits Continue March to Orwell's Vision

Brian Hicks
Posted April 5, 2007

The dark world envisioned by George Orwell took another small step forward yesterday in his merry old English home. And while it's not quite as terrifying as a trip to Room 101 in the Ministry of...

U.S. Government Admits Peak Oil Threat

Brian Hicks
Posted April 5, 2007

Thanks to the relentless efforts of Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-MD) and Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM) and their Congressional Peak Oil Caucus, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has performed a...

Oil Causes and Heals All Wounds

Brian Hicks
Posted April 5, 2007

A new path for petroleum is now in the works, as leaders of five southern European nations inked a deal Tuesday to build the so-called Pan-European Oil Pipeline. Not only the planned route is new:...

Digital Music Unchained and Unleashed

Brian Hicks
Posted April 3, 2007

A trickle of freedom came down from above to the world of the iPod and its brethren yesterday as Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his cohorts at the EMI Group announced that they would soon begin offering...

European Stocks: Exposure or Explosion?

Brian Hicks
Posted April 3, 2007

Do you remember when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated? Or when the Spanish flu paralyzed the American populace? Then you might recall the last time European equity markets outsized Wall Street...

Sounding the Peak Oil Alarm

Keith Kohl
Posted April 2, 2007

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an eighty-two page report warning us of the devastating impact of peak oil