The theme of this year’s Agora Financial Investment Symposium is “View From the Peak.” The title alludes to Peak Oil, as well as peak everything else. We have 6.5 billion people on Earth, with more arriving every day. A fortunate few hundred million of us already live in the developed world. And now several billion other souls are working their way out of poverty, and that takes resources. So the world demand for everything (energy, steel, cement, food, water, you name it) is rising.
July 25th, 2008 | Byron King | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "peak oil"
The Iowa Floods Send America Into a Season of Hoarding
The recent Iowa floods show evidence of how the problems of weird weather (climate change) combine and ramify the problems associated with Peak Oil. In this particular case they lead to an inflection point sometime around the 2008 harvest season, which will also be our time of political harvest.
June 25th, 2008 | James Howard Kunstler | 8 comments | Continued
Pemex and Mexican Peak Oil Equal Expensive Oil
Pemex better start exploring for more oil in the Gulf of Mexico or its going to pump out all its reserves in less than ten years. Mexico’s government has not been investing enough in exploration or new production to top off Pemex’s reserves.
April 11th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued