Posts Tagged ‘Oil’

• Readings: Tuesday 9 March 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, March 9th, 2010 at 11:58 pm, Comments: 0

  Peak Demand Yes, But Not the Nice Kind: Chris Nelder, GetRealList.com.
  Can California Declare Bankruptcy?: Christopher Beam, Slate.
  Exxon Lowers Bar, Buys Assets Once Seen Unattractive: Edward Klump, Bloomberg.com.
  Requiem for a Dying City: Damien Perrotin, Energy Bulletin.
  What’s Wrong with Venture Capital?: James Surowiecki, MIT Technology Review.
  Losses Wipe Out Equity of Mexico’s Pemex: Robert Campbell, Reuters.
  California Job Losses [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 19 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 19th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Comments: 0

  Someday this war’s gonna end. For this week’s Campfire series on The Oil Drum, I have submitted a kind of post-peak, energy-transition, urban renewal plan and used Philadelphia as my tableau. Embedded in what is otherwise a rather thematic, big idea kind of essay are most of my views on energy transition, permanently higher oil [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 11 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am, Comments: 0

  Anthony Bolton Goes to China: Business Daily, BBC World Service .
  Gas, Shale, and Hydrofracking – problems of shale gas extraction: Medlock, Mall, Adams, Wujnovich, WBUR On Point Radio.
  Aqua Shock – The Water Crisis in America: Author Susan J Marks, Financial Sense Online.
  “Keep the Oil in the Soil”: Ecuador Seeks Money to Keep Untapped Oil [...]

• Readings:Tuesday 10 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 10th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Key Oil Figures Were Distorted by US Pressure, Says Whistleblower: Terry Macalister, The Guardian.
  IEA Warns Non-Opec Oil Supply Will Peak Next Year: Kate Mackenzie, FT energysource.
  World Energy Outlook Executive Summary (12 page Adobe .pdf), IEA Paris.
  Too Fearful to Publicise Peak Oil Reality: Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian.
  Guardian Raises Questions about Past IEA Forecasts of World Oil; [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 27 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, Comments: 0

  New School of Thought Brings Energy to the Dismal Science: Nathanial Gronewold, The New York Times.
  The Narrow Ledge of Oil Prices: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  Food Will Never Be So Cheap Again: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph.
  Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution: Ethan Zuckerman, World Changing.
  China’s Water Needs Create Opportunities: Hillary Brenhouse, The New York Times.
  The [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 24 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 24th, 2009 at 11:44 pm, Comments: 0

  Excuse me but I’ll need to check your bag: In hindsight, I believe there will be two groups of market observers that will awaken over the next 12 months to ask themselves the following question: how could I have been so wrong? In the first group, we have the conventional recoverists, who continue to apply [...]

• Cross-Posting: Break Point
  Gregor Macdonald, October 15th, 2009 at 11:45 pm, Comments: 0

  GregorWeekly subscribers might enjoy reading a Gregor.us post from this evening, on the topic of California’s vulnerability to a second oil shock. | see Break Point.

• Cross-Posting: Learning from Lagos
  Gregor Macdonald, October 1st, 2009 at 11:31 pm, Comments: 0

  GregorWeekly subscribers might enjoy reading a Gregor.us post from this evening, on the topic of resource nationalism and the stagnation of Non-OPEC oil supply. | see Learning from Lagos.

• Readings: Tuesday 29 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, Comments: 0

  Where High Speed Rail Makes the Most Sense: An America 2050 Report, as covered by The Infrastructurist.
  Russia throws another currency on the barbie: Izabella Kaminska , FT Alphaville.
  Historical Home Sale Volume Measured in Dollars: Rich Toscano, Professor Piggington’s Econo-Almanac for the Landed Poor.
  The Crossroads of Sustainability and Suicide: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  China’s Mr. [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 25 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am, Comments: 0

  The Giant Pool Of Money: Where Are They Now?, NPR/This American Life Radio.
  Peter Maass: “Crude World” (Knopf), The Dianne Rehm Show WAMU Radio.
  Los Angeles: Provisional Civilization, James Kunstler on KunstlerCast Radio.
  Inflation/Deflation, Or Both? Michael Hampton, Commodity Watch Radio.
  Michael Hudson: Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage, KPFA Guns and Butter Radio.
  Natural Gas: Advances in natural gas drilling [...]