Sentences with phrase «peak oil do»

However if petrol becomes expensive again, it is either tax or by the amounts available and we do not want to visit peak oil do we?

Peak oil does not mean «running out of oil», and it is this misunderstanding that has helped prevent the public from absorbing the potential implications of peak oil.

And peak oil is easier to deal with than AGW, because unlike AGW, peak oil does not demand that we immediately end ALL use of fossil fuels.

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«So paradoxically these peak demand fears might bring the largest supply shock ever,» he wrote, adding, «If oil prices do not rise fast enough, $ 300 oil in a few years is not impossible».

Birol said he did not see U.S. oil production peaking before 2020, and that he did not expect a decline in the next four to five years.

Thiel's peak - oil thesis did well by Clarium until mid-2008, as the price of oil soared from about $ 40 a barrel in 2002 to nearly $ 140.

So did the peak oil «experts» disappear forever?

My question is this... How does this affect peak oil (or, as I like to call it, the end of the Industrial Age)?

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

I never believed in peak oil and I don't believe in this peak demand either.

But it does make you think that maybe our worry about «peak oil» and nuclear meltdowns is all just a phase.

Don't be stingy with the fresh basil, and use the best extra-virgin olive oil and the sweetest balsamic vinegar you can find for this unforgettable way to relish peak summer tomatoes.

The irony is that peak oil of a sort did arrive in 2006, and Hubbert hit the bullseye, though Inman makes surprisingly little of this.

Conventional oil production did peak in 2006, and that makes up 90 % of the oil we use now.

If you do intermittent fasting and eat one to two meals per day in a 4 - 6 hour eating window and use MCT oil in coffee and teas during the fasting period you can peak your ketones around 16 - 20 hours into the fast.

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As for diesel, the new engine family's 2.0 litre oil burner will do 148 - 188 hp and 330 - 400 Nm of torque — not a big improvement in terms of peak output figures from the existing engine in models like the 320d.

For instance, if you believe that global oil production has peaked, you might want to invest your money with a manager who loves oil stocks even more than the index does.

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To get there, most people fly like we did, to the oil - rich plains of Calgary, Alberta, rent a four - wheel - drive vehicle, then drive three hours due west through the Rocky Mountains on what is probably one of the most scenic stretches of road in the world through Banff National Park (itself home to several of the most famous ski resorts in Canada), where you are quickly enveloped by snow - covered peaks on either side of you.

I do wonder, though, if 2012 (and possibly 2013, if developers aren't too tied up supporting the massive projects they launched this year) is a sort of «peak oil» period for Home as we know it.

Actually, even given my skepticism, I'm all in favor in doing relatively easy stuff (and «easy» could still be large - scale) as some insurance while we continue the debate and development, and to get a jump on peak oil, and for other secondary benefits.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

One issue I have not had the time to do full justice to being Peak Oil.

I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that we're about to «run out» — rather, the claim made by the Peak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productPeak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productpeak production.

Toyota did well because the Japanese domestic car market demands small, efficient cars, and that demand has expanded as we approach Peak Oil.

Peak oil is not going to save us — and I know that Hansen doesn't think so.

Then we talked about peak oil and she immediately stated that she didn't believe in that.

Sadly we do not have much of a margin of error because of the looming threat of peak oil.

Even if you don't understand peak oil production issues — or give damn — the discussions are wide - ranging, often quite technical, and extensive.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?

And regardless of what you may believe individually, peak oil is close on the horizon and if we don't grow up now we will be forced to grow up very quickly in the future, with much less time to handle these challenges intelligently.

It's an ideal way to maintain control over decision - making before nature does it for us in the form of dwindling reserves like peak oil or a permanently degraded environment (neither of which are good for business), or governments institute the tough regulations that are surely coming if business doesn't clean up its act.

Though he doesn't come out and say it, he even alludes to peak oil.

I do nt know if we have hit peak oil yet, but it would be close, given how yields are behaving in the larger fields and the extent of water pumping required.

I don't have anything against climatologists, but I expect to see economists and petroleum engineers heavily referenced in any paper that addresses «peak oil».

He must be feeling the heat, because in his latest post to his blog, he denies being Mr. Gloom n'doom and makes positive and realistic recommendations of what we will have to do to adapt to climate change and peak oil.

Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn't end there.

What evidence do we have that «oil majors» could be experiencing political peak oil?

But given the fact that peak oil is looking like an ever more urgent reality — America would do well to recognize its own vulnerability and do something about it.

I don't think it's about global warming or peak oil per se, it seems there was some kind of fireball nuke attack or comet strike that sent the Earth into its tragedy in the book, but the story is absolutely rivetting.

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

Tony's arguements and Ed's figures are very persuasive, and the «peak oil / running out of stuff» scare doesn't really wash in the short to medium term when market forces drive discovery and production to meet demand.

Dave, I respect greatly your work at theoildrum.com, but to narrowly characterize it as only concerned with the technical question of peak oil, without mentioning the constant analysis of WHY the politicians and citizenry don't accept the often vague and uncertain science, is just not correct.

There is speculation that this rate will slow based on extrapolation of population, peak oil and gas, etc., and that may well be, but it is interesting nonetheless to calculate when the mass of Earth's atmosphere will equal that of Venus if it doesn't.

The existence of enormous quantities of tar does not help the peaking and decline of light oil in a given region with a given technology.

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

If the accuracy you require is, for instance, that a national peak oil model must predict the date of the peak within several months and be precise to the nearest 1,000 bbl / day, then indeed all predictions have failed and will continue to do so.

The point is this: As the peak of oil production comes and goes, and as natural gas does the same sometime later, people are going to become ever more desperate in a fossil - fuel constrained world.