It is now plausible to envision scenarios in which global demand for crude oil falls to essentially zero by the end of this century, driven by improvements in clean energy technologies, adoption of stringent climate policies, or both. This paper asks what such a demand decline, when anticipated, might mean for global oil supply. One […]
The end of oil?
The end of oil?
05 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: peak oil
Are We Running Out of Resources? #peakoil @greenpeace
04 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: peak oil, pessimism bias
Peak coal was long ago
25 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics Tags: coal prices, Oil prices, peak oil
President Carter said the world would run out of oil by 2010
23 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: doomsday prophecies, Oil prices, peak oil
President Carter said the world would run out of oil by 2010
realclimatescience.com/2015/06/presid… http://t.co/flmIxYOFdd—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) June 22, 2015
How is peak oil going?
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: commodity prices, doomsday prophecies, peak oil
Are we really running out of oil? As it turns out, we're discovering more every year. buff.ly/1LhV947 http://t.co/fdxxk5fNpi—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 19, 2015
@NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ @PeakOil and peak #coal are in the past
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: antimarket bias, devastate prophecies, entrepreneurial alertness, peak coal, peak oil, rational ignorance
The evolution of American energy consumption since 1776 businessinsider.com/evolution-of-a… http://t.co/APT8NQZfmg—
Elena Holodny (@elenaholodny) August 21, 2015
Julian Simon and William Buckley on Cross–Fire
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, William Buckley
Has the ‘Peak Oil’ drama peaked?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, resource economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, peak oil, The Great Enrichment
Remember Peak Oil? Just a few years ago Green Party leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russell Norman routinely issued warnings about ‘the world running out of oil’ and told us that we needed to move freight off roads and on to shipping and rail, and commuters out of cars and on to trains, buses and bicycles.
They weren’t alone of course. An April 2006 article in The Economist reported that:
For years a small group of geologists has been claiming that the world has started to grow short of oil, that alternatives cannot possible replace it and that an imminent peak in production will lead to economic disaster. In recent months this view has gained wider acceptance on Wall Street and in the media. Recent books on oil have bewailed the threat. Every few weeks, its seems, “Out of Gas”, “The Empty Tank” and “The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can…
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Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The latest on peak oil
13 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: doomsday prophecies, peak oil
Humanity keeps finding new reserves of energy: buff.ly/1H0DUQR #progress http://t.co/IFbHg3YOwn—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) July 06, 2015
Oil forecasting is hard
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, macroeconomics Tags: forecasting errors, Oil prices, peak oil
Oil forecasting is hard, EIA edition bloombergview.com/articles/2015-… http://t.co/J2mvpKYrsc—
Justin Fox (@foxjust) April 16, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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