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Monthly Archives: February 2011
A Look Behind Rising Food Prices: Population Growth; Rising Oil Prices; Weather Events
This is a guest post by Dr. Gary Peters. He is a retired geography professor and author of Population Geography. Rising food prices, crowned by a recent record high spike and chronicled in the graph below, have played a role … Continue reading
Is “shale oil” the answer to “peak oil”?
Readers have been asking questions about a couple of shale oil articles recently. One is an AP article called New drilling method opens vast oil fields in US. A similar article is a CNBC article titled Massive New US Oil Supply … Continue reading
Networked Resources, Declining Quality and Peak Oil
This is a guest post by David Clarke (also known as “aeldric”) from Australia. He has written posts (here and here) on failures of networked systems for The Oil Drum. This post was originally published on The Oil Drum – … Continue reading
Don’t count on natural gas to solve US energy problems
We often hear statements suggesting that by ramping up shale gas production, the US can raise total natural gas production and solve many of its energy problems, including adding quite a number of natural gas vehicles, and replacing a large … Continue reading
