Primer: Oil Price Rise Fails to Open Tap
Mother Jones has an interesting read on the future — or lack thereof — of petroleum. The coming crisis isn’t about ‘Peak Oil,’ it’s a simple case of high demand vs. low supply — more people want more oil but less is being found and produced:
Energy of [...]
The following is excerpted from an essay by James Howard Kunstler published in the book Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation (Chelsea Green, 2007). It’s really well written and thought provoking, read it all.
It’s compelling to see how NASCAR auto racing has risen to the level of a mania in early 21st century America, [...]
From the The Economist:
Nowadays, new oil tends to be found in relatively inaccessible spots or in more unwieldy forms. That adds to the cost of extracting oil, because more engineers and more complex machinery are needed to exploit it—but the end of easy oil is a far remove from the jeremiads of peak-oilers. The gooey [...]
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