Tag Archives: natural gas

True sustainability solutions

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

We live in a world with very limited solutions to our sustainability problems. I often hear the view, “If we would just get off fossil fuels, then our society would be sustainable.” Or, “If the price of oil would just … Continue reading →

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Why US natural gas prices are so low – Are changes needed?

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

US natural gas prices are at record lows–about where they were in 1976, and at the low points in the 1990s, in today’s dollars (Figure 1). There are several reasons why US natural gas prices are so low: Our pricing … Continue reading →

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Why High Oil Prices Are Now Affecting Europe More Than the US

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

The world is presently sharing a limited supply of oil. When oil prices rise, oil production doesn’t rise very much, if at all. The issues then become: Which buyers get the oil? What uses get priced out of the market? … Continue reading →

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Businessweek Gets it Wrong—Everything You Know About Peak Oil is ‘Not’ Wrong

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

On January 26, Bloomberg Businessweek printed an editorial by Charles Kenny titled, “Everything You Know About Peak Oil Is Wrong”. This editorial reflects several common misunderstandings. According to Kenny: Titled Limits to Growth, their report suggested the world was heading … Continue reading →

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Natural Gas: The Squeeze at the Bottom of the Resource Triangle

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Gail Tverberg

Theoretically, we have a very large amount of resources of many kinds available–oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, gold, fresh water. There is a relatively small amount of high quality, inexpensive-to-extract resources, and we tend to extract those first. From there, … Continue reading →

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