Category Archives: Energy policy

IEA Oil Forecast Unrealistically High; Misses Diminishing Returns

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides unrealistically high oil forecasts in its new 2012 World Energy Outlook (WEO). It claims, among other things, that the United States will become the world’s largest oil producer by around 2020, and North America will become … Continue reading →

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Renewables Are Overrated, We Need Cheap Oil – Interview with Gail Tverberg

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

This article originally appeared at Oilprice.com. What does our world’s energy future look like? Does renewable energy feature as much in the energy production mix as many hope it will? Will natural gas and fracking help reduce our dependence upon … Continue reading →

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The Close Tie Between Energy Consumption, Employment, and Recession

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

The number of jobs available to job-seekers has been a problem for quite a long tine now—since 2000 in the United States, and longer than that in Europe. If we look at the percentage of the US population who are … Continue reading →

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RIO+20 Talks Need to Consider Physical Limits

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

RIO+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, is to be held this week on June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro. The term Sustainable Development seems to me to be almost a contradiction in terms. One dictionary gives the definition … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on why energy use and CO2 emissions are rising as fast as GDP

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

In a recent post, I discovered something rather alarming–the fact that in the last decade (2000 to 2010) both world energy consumption and the CO2 emissions from this energy consumption were rising as fast as GDP for the world as … Continue reading →

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