Sentences with phrase «peak oil makes»

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That means there's a new higher floor under oil prices as the peak summer demand season approaches, and it also makes the market vulnerable to a «super spike» if there's any significant supply disruption.

Even with oil prices still down by half from the peak, improvements in well development productivity have enabled US producers to make money at much lower oil prices.

But the playing field has changed significantly over the past two years, and U.S. producers are indeed able to make money at far lower oil prices than at the peak.

The biggest shift is technology ending «peak oil;» an unconventional energy revolution quickly making the United States the world's largest producer.

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

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Traditionally the industry has been a heavy user of fossil fuels, primarily oil, the price of which has fluctuated from under $ 15 a barrel 20 years ago to peaks of $ 90 to over $ 100 now, making fossil fuels such as bunker oil vastly more expensive.

Three tanker trucks arrive here on peak production days, loading up with 500 barrels of oil made from 270 tons of turkey guts and 20 tons of pig fat.

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

Exactly 50 years later, crude oil production peaked at 70 mb / d, and because it then made up the bulk of oil supply, this caused the temporary plateau of global oil production that helped pitch the global economy into recession.

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.

And so one [of the] points I wanted to make is that is if we're already starting to run into limits that those are going to be seriously exacerbated by the problems that we're now encountering with the shifts in weather and with the advent of peak oil.

Make no mistake, peak oil is a threat to our way of life.

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

The petrol unit makes about 82 bhp and develops 113 Nm of peak torque, while the oil burner makes 74 bhp and 190 Nm of peak torque.

The Isuzu MU - X has only one diesel engine on offer - a 3 - litre, four - cylinder oil burner that makes 174 bhp and develops a peak torque of 380 Nm.

While the smaller 2.2 - litre oil burner makes 158 bhp and 385 Nm of peak torque, the bigger 3.2 - litre engine churns out 197 bhp and 470 Nm of peak torque.

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Many made these investments in response to such notions as Peak Oil theory.

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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.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

Of course, if instead of a fear of peak oil, the military was thinking long term of securing fuel supplies for its operations in the event of a disruption of imported fuel supplies, this might also make sense for their actions.

As oil peaks gas will increasingly be used to make liquid fuels (GTL).

I suspect that the twin threats of climate change and peak oil, amplified by the population overshoot we are in, will mean that we have just one shot at getting our energy systems right and there is little if any margin of error in making the right choices.

My problem with Peak Oil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otherOil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otheroil shales (among others).

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.

Tar and shale sands can not scale in time and neither can coal for peak oil to make a large scale impact.

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicyle friendly.»

I asked Levi if he could offer a «Book Report» to start a conversation here on Yergin's arguments, which have made the energy analyst a popular target of people foreseeing turmoil from «peak oil.»

Because, in order to really make a dent in climate change and issues with peak oil, it's going to take both conservation and nifty new technologies like acres of algae to save our hides.

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.

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»

This is not surprising, since he is an oilman, but it is an ill - advised tactic, since it will both increase contributions to global warming and make a negligible impact on fuel costs or eventual peak oil production.

You couldn't be more right, Andrew, with the following statement: «If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»»

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We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

In May, global warming, species extinction, and growing fears of peaking global oil production all combined to make the Arctic a focus of world attention.

Predictions of peak oil and gas are not only being made for the wrong year and decade, but also for the wrong century.»

Alternatively, it could mean that being near peak oil there will be inertia in the system due to investments made in the infrastructure for coal - based energy, tar sands, shale, or what have you.

WHT, Talking about substance from a guy who tried to make money off of peak oil fear is pretty laughable.

I used to believe in global warming — then like the CSIRO boss I made the mistake of trying to add a link from the Wikipedia global warming article to peak oil — it was removed almost instantaneously — I assumed a mistake — I added it back.

Leaving aside the impact of the oil and gas methane rule itself, a steadily escalating $ 100 / ton CO2 regulatory penalty post — 2020 will make building any new gas power plants — except as demand peak cover for renewables — a fool's game.

See Ben Pile of the GWPF, and how he got made mincemeat by the peak oil realists.

The peak in United States wheat production is probably due to the shifting of wheat area to corn and soybeans areas to make biofuels (ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans) rather than the current peaking of crude - oil extraction

And in his final chapter, Monbiot tackles, and lays to rest, the four «messiahs» that others believe can or will make the need to tackle climate change moot: new fuel technologies, new cleaning technologies, Peak Oil, and the market mechanism of carbon offsets.

They're admittedly melting the arctic ice with it so they can blame it on gasoline, tax it, make trillions, destroy the economy by driving up prices with the peak oil scam, make even more trillions, take over the world, and kill you all!

Peak Oil in particular, he argues, could well make global warming worse.