Keith KohlPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted April 10, 2007
The future is going to be a very scary place. It'll be dark, grim and even foreboding. At least thats the story in a piece published in The Guardian yesterday. There will be information chips...
Keith KohlPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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:...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Brian HicksPosted 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...
Keith KohlPosted 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