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It might save a bit of power, but is unlikely to have the desired effect with regard to population...

As was pointed out at TheOilDrum, corn futures haven't risen in response to the heat.

As far as ethanol producers are concerned, they can hedge costs by buying forward now if they want to.

The f ...

Jaws is trying to use "employ" as use without depletion in contrast to "use" as use and deplete.

In other words, when you employ a resource, it does not deplete, whilst when you use a resource, it ...

monthly data since 1973 (in excel format)

[url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mer/prices.html]http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mer/prices.html

daily prices since 1983 (in excel format)

[url=http://to ...

The Simmons 8% comment is a hard one to work out. He knows the context in which it was delivered.

Either Simmons is deliberately misrepresenting here, or he is alluding to the possibilty that a glo ...

Hey Pup, care for an update? I don't know where you get the data from.

[url=http://peakoil.com/fortopic1121.html]Gas Affordability Index

See, I thought intercourse was the cause of overpopulation.

And also, the global over supply of labour, the resource most effectively exploited by globalization, has been one of the key factors in ...

10 kg of antimatter per day, at $25 billion per gram, is a measly 2.5 x 10^17 dollars per day. I can't believe we're not doing this already.

Oh I wouldn't worry about that. Everyone knows that anti ...

Just like to remind the locals that Greenspan suggested oil consumption might, in the absence of unforeseen circumstances, peak around 2040. He said this guess was consistent with EIA.

Then he sai ...

Yes, but his pessimistic case for peaking was "in the forties", and his optimistic case was "who knows when".

The moderators police us, but who polices the moderators?

The contributors do. If the contributors don't like the policy of the moderators, they can saction them by leaving, and not going back.

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What is Turkish for "Don't shoot the messenger"?

Agree with the philosophical argument. But how would you calculate the fair price of oil?

I don't know.

My main point is to strongly reject the commonly accepted view that the phrase 'unfair mar ...

The great preponderance of modern economists reject the notion that a fair price for oil may be anything other than the current market price.

Economic theorists will also argue that the fair price ...

Is there such thing as an unfair price for oil?

If there is, maybe people could at least agree on what extremes might constitute an unfair price.