Land is scarce. Or just a civilization myth!
You can Google this one. Just the way I did. Keywords ‘World Population’. The world population as of October 2016 is estimated at 7.4 billion. And the UN estimates it Continue Reading
Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All But Peaked
IEA forecast has ‘major implications’ for refining industry Oil watchdog sees gasoline demand falling from now until 2040 After fueling the 20th century automobile culture that reshaped cities and defined Continue Reading
How Big Oil Loses Even Without Peak Demand
The first rule of making projections out to 2040 is to recognize the fact that you’ll almost certainly be wrong. After all, think about doing the same thing back in Continue Reading
Donald Trump and the USA’s Growth and Indebtedness
During the election campaign Donald Trump took up two questions that we discuss in Chapter 2 of [the Swedish book titled] “A world addicted to oil”, and this will also Continue Reading
Trump: on the way to “Scenario 3
Margarita Mediavilla and her coworkers have performed extensive simulations of the future using system dynamics models, (see here) . One of their scenarios, called “Scenario 3,” is based on the Continue Reading
Oil demand won’t peak before 2040, despite Paris deal: IEA
The International Energy Agency expects global oil consumption to peak no sooner than 2040, leaving its long-term forecasts for supply and demand unchanged despite the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement Continue Reading
IEA Sees Peak Oil Demand After 2040
Global oil demand won’t stop growing before 2040 despite pledges made at the Paris climate change summit last year to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, the head of the International Energy Agency Continue Reading
What the End of the Age of Oil Will Mean to the Global Economy
Imagine a world of 50% annual inflation, resource wars that span the globe and energy prices skyrocketing as oil reaches $200 a barrel. This is what the “peak oil” theory Continue Reading
Peak Oil & System Justification: Denial Will Be Costly
Scientists say there’s a tension in the brain between responding to new information and resisting overwhelming amounts of conflicting data—and the latter can prevent opinion change. Altering opinion depends on Continue Reading
The Catastrophic Consequences Of Peak Oil Demand
With OPEC’s 2016 World Oil Outlook now grimly forecasting that peak oil demand could become a reality in just over a decade, and natural gas and renewables chomping at the Continue Reading