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Peak Oil

Falling gas prices: Where's the outrage?

It's October in an election year and the price of gasoline is dropping like a rock. Where have all the conspiracy theorists gone?

By Andrew Leonard October 14, 2008

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

Currently in How the World Works

A big, fat "I told you so" from Joe Stiglitz

Eighteen years ago, he warned of the "perverse incentives" implied by mortgage securitization.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 23:44 EST

Marxist-Leninist Mao Zedong Ultraman to the rescue!

Who will dominate the ideological information technology battle of the future. The U.S.? China? Or is the game already over?

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 21:29 EST

A second act for Eliot Spitzer

America: Land of the free, home of the forgiving. No matter what you do, there's an online column gig waiting in the wings

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 18:07 EST

How national healthcare could have saved Detroit

The Big Three blame legacy retiree benefits for crippling their business. But it's their own darn fault.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 02:19 EST

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