Sentences with phrase «peak oil the boom»

More on Peak Oil and Hubbert's Curve See Peak Oil for Yourself The Ultimate Race: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming Ascent of Peak Oil The Boom in Doom: Peak Oil in the New York Times

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The quasi-state-controlled oil company has new leadership and its stock has been crushed amid the shake up and corruption charges, down as much as 70 % from its peak during the boom years.

But oil is still far cheaper than at the peak of the previous eight - year boom that began in 2006 North Dakota's Bakken oil patch and supercharged the city of Williston.

The fraction of crude oil consumed in the U.S. that was imported went from 35 % immediately before the 1973 oil crisis, peaked at 60 % in 2005, and then returned to 35 % by 2013 [7] thanks to increased domestic production [8] from the shale oil boom.

The tight oil boom wasn't prophesied like peak oil — if it was, it got no publicity.

Jim Kunstler would say it is because of Peak Oil, that suburban homeowners won't be able to afford to heat or cool their houses or commute to work; We have said that it is because of global warming, that low density construction uses too many resources and creates too much CO2 when nobody can walk anywhere; Perhaps demographer David Foot, author of Boom, Bust and Echo, 10 years ago was right all along, that demographics are everything and just watch those baby boomers.

Finally, the chart is not immune to temporary events like the Texas oil boom of the late 1970s and early «80s, which caused housing prices in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio to peak just after 1980.