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Peak Oil

Jimmy Carter -- the peak oil president
His 1977 speech on the energy crisis is all too timely during a week of campaign obsession over tire gauges and offshore drilling.
By Andrew Leonard August 6, 2008
Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise
It took awhile, but the market finally realized there's only so much of that black gold to go around.
By Andrew Leonard June 26, 2008
The Wall Street Peak Oil Journal
As crude prices set another record, the Journal publishes its gloomiest assessment yet of the oil market
By Andrew Leonard May 22, 2008
The peak oil culture wars
Do conservatives oppose conservation because they don't like taking the bus? Or because they're terrified that those dirty hippies were right all along?
By Andrew Leonard May 12, 2008
Peak oil explains lack of UFOs
Why is there no evidence of alien space-faring civilizations? Maybe it's because the cost of jet-fuel got too high
By Andrew Leonard May 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus
But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation.
By Andrew Leonard May 5, 2008
The education of an oil reporter
A year ago, the New York Times' Jad Mouawad pooh-poohed the theory of peak oil. But $120 a barrel for crude forces everyone to rethink their positions
By Andrew Leonard April 29, 2008
The oil seesaw
Demand in the U.S. falls for the third straight quarter. But China's thirstier than ever, and it isn't alone.
By Andrew Leonard April 22, 2008
How not to prepare for peak oil
Russia, Nigeria, Mexico: Please open your arms to foreign oil companies so we can pump out your black gold even faster
By Andrew Leonard April 17, 2008
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
Kevin Phillips' newest excoriation of the state of the union, "Bad Money," is the right book for the right time.
By Andrew Leonard April 14, 2008
North Dakota -- the next Saudi Arabia
Anti-peak oilers are rejoicing at the news of huge oil reserves yearning to be drilled. But it won't be cheap, and it won't be easy. OPEC can relax.
By Andrew Leonard April 9, 2008
The upside to peak fertilizer
Synthetic production of nitrogen consumes oodles of energy. Organic never looked so good
By Andrew Leonard February 7, 2008
Has world oil production already peaked?
Tadeusz Patzek, biofuel critic supreme, says the numbers so far this year support a peak oil hypothesis
By Andrew Leonard October 11, 2007
How global warming will save us from peak oil
A melting Arctic will make it easier to extract fossil fuels from the formerly frozen north.
By Andrew Leonard October 9, 2007
Don't cry for Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom's petroleum minister claims that efforts to rein in the demand for oil are unfair to his country. But maybe the world has bigger problems?
By Andrew Leonard September 27, 2007
The oil price paradox
As the price of crude surges again to new highs, even the CEO of Exxon says he can't figure out what's going on
By Andrew Leonard September 12, 2007
Blaming labor for peak oil problems
Costs are booming in the Wild West oil sands territory of Alberta. Fie on those workers spoiling the party for everyone else
By Andrew Leonard August 15, 2007
The day the drilling stopped
Yet another peak oil nightmare: The end of dentistry as we know it is nigh.
By Andrew Leonard July 25, 2007
If it smells like peak oil, it probably is
A bleak new report from the International Energy Agency offers plenty of fodder for those who believe the era of cheap oil is over, forever.
By Andrew Leonard July 9, 2007
The missing link in Mexico's declining oil production
The words the Wall Street Journal dare not speak: "Peak oil."
By Andrew Leonard April 5, 2007
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