Peak Oil News

A Shell Oil geologist named M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s.

Even if you are sceptical about global warming, the case for reducing our dependence on carbon as an energy source is overwhelming.

Back in 1956, geophysicist M. King Hubbert advanced a theory that the United States would peak in its oil production within the next decade.

While too many of our leaders in Washington pretend that global warming, peak oil and the growing numbers of the hungry in our nation are just figments of the liberal imagination, I recently got a glimpse of a project that, when fully operational, will take care of all three problems and provide jobs in the process.

Science Magazine just published a great article about peak oil , and I realized it's been exactly a decade since I became "peak oil aware." 9/11 had just happened, and to try and understand the world I did something I wasn't, as an American, supposed to do -- I listened to Osama bin Laden and his complaints to try and understand why these attacks ... (more)

With 40 social justice and environmental documentary films screening at the 11th annual World Community Film Festival at Langara College, Feb.

A flurry of new mainstream media articles telling people not to worry about Peak Oil and hydrocarbon depletion have begun appearing on financial sites like Bloomberg, Forbes or The Wall Street Journal.

An unprecedented crisis faced America. Oil production was going to peak in just three to five years, resulting in foreign oil addiction and economic calamity.

Locking gas caps were invented during the Great Depression as a preventive measure against scurrilous thieves who would siphon gasoline from unsuspecting car owners - and that was when gas was only 18 cents a gallon.

Coal, as measured by KOL , is up over 15% since the start of 2012, outperforming the S&P 500 by a wide margin -- SPY is up just a bit over 7%. Can these gains last? The short verdict: I'm bullish on coal, though I do think it is susceptible to disruption from natural gas and perhaps even oil if fracking can put an end to peak oil.

Peak oil is when the maximum rate of world oil production is reached and the rate enters terminal decline.

Peak oil is when the maximum rate of world oil production is reached and the rate enters terminal decline.

Containers filled with oil cleaned up from an oil spill site are seen at the Nantuo Fishing Harbor in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province on Sunday, July 25, 2010.

Here's what we all know to be true: petroleum products are being consumed by an increasingly mobile world faster than foreseeable rises in production.

It's no secret that the energy equation is changing. Demand in all forms is growing and will continue to rise for the foreseeable future.

While too many of our leaders in Washington pretend that global warming, peak oil and the growing numbers of the hungry in our nation are just figments of the liberal imagination, I recently got a glimpse of a project that, when fully operational, will take care of all three problems and provide jobs in the process.

Stop Signs: Cars & Capitalism - On the Road to Economic, Social & Ecological Decay By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages, $27.95 The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler who took a bus ride across the United States, is a doomed jalopy going nowhere.

The U.S. oil market could be on the verge of its own fracking revolution, similar to what the natural-gas market is already experiencing.

IN THE race to shore up energy certainty in the face of peak oil, vastly differing strategies are on the international table.

Capitalism will end when oil runs out, according to Fleeing Vesuvius , a collection of essays first published in Ireland in 2010.