Posts tagged Peak
Peak Oil and Automated Income
Jun 7th
When cruising around the net looking for automated income opportunities it is easy to find the promises that different sites will make. They sell the dream of financial independence. The ability to cast off the shackles of the work-a-day world and enjoy the freedom and flexibility that you deserve. It’s easy to buy into this More >
Oil Depletion and Peak Oil
May 28th
The peak in global oil production or oil depletion is of major concern as usable energy is the world’s most critical resource. Oil is a finite, non-renewable resource and will someday run out. Oil is used to transport raw minerals, to refine them, to manufacture goods, and to transport the goods to markets. Oil accounts More >
Oil Depletion and Peak Oil
May 28th
The peak in global oil production or oil depletion is of major concern as usable energy is the world’s most critical resource. Oil is a finite, non-renewable resource and will someday run out. Oil is used to transport raw minerals, to refine them, to manufacture goods, and to transport the goods to markets. Oil accounts More >
Peak Oil: Does America Have Sustainable Power?
May 17th
Peak Oil: Does America Have Sustainable Power? We are living in a tumultuous world. We are experiencing an economic downturn, and the way things look right now, it seems this “recession” may even be greater than the great depression. The war as they say is the cause. The budget deficit for 2008 was over $400,000,000. More >
Peak Oil
Apr 25th
I’ve noticed in recent years an alarming trend to needing ever increasing power in the engines we use in our lives. Even the entry level econo box car is now coming out with horsepower ratings well over 100. Lawnmowers are now available that have more horsepower than the first car I owned. I’ve even seen More >
Peak Oil And Its Significance
Apr 16th
The Peak oil crisis has become a major phenomenon. There is a fall in crude oil exports when domestic consumption in the oil exporting countries increases. Extraction of oil becomes a complicated process and there is a decline in worldwide oil production. Oil is extracted from the surface where it is easier to reach and More >
Peak Oil and the ’08 Election
Mar 12th
The headlines this month have been taken by the most insidious of America’s vices: black gold. Oil futures are now projected to exceed $100 a barrel until 2016, and continue to sit comfortably near the $115-120 a barrel mark. Many different causes have been blamed for rising prices at the pump, ranging from massive More >
World Food Crisis, Peak Oil, Stagflation and Other Disasters
Mar 1st
While reading the headlines about violence around the world caused by food shortages, I started to think that my blog about America’s obsession with bio-fuels was a little too tame. After all, besides the shifting of the Chinese diet higher up the food chain (it requires 8 calories of grain to create 1 calorie More >
The Peak Oil Crisis and Water Supply
Feb 18th
Much is being made about the “Peak Oil Crisis” in the media today. Gasoline and natural gas prices are high and continue to rise. But what is the “peak oil crisis” and how does it impact our water supply? Peak Oil is discussed and defined in an excellent book by Kenneth S. Deffeyes entitled More >