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 Topic: "Oil-market contrarian sees price bubble ready to burst |
mmm
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Views: 4524
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 Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:44 am Subject: supply/demand |
| There is likely going to be a major oil glut due to recession in the near future. That'll temporarily make people think peakoil is a myth, but the changes will come almost exclusively from the demand ... |
| Topic: Your personal vehicle. Keeping it, or tossing it??? |
mmm
Replies: 54
Views: 9042
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:33 pm Subject: keeping it |
| And I plan on keeping my bicycle/trailer combo. |
| Topic: Your personal vehicle. Keeping it, or tossing it??? |
mmm
Replies: 54
Views: 9042
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:29 pm Subject: bicycle |
| I have a bicycle with a trailer that attaches to it. The trailer is rated to carry 60 pounds. |
| Topic: Quota system |
mmm
Replies: 5
Views: 925
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:46 pm Subject: quotas -- terrible |
Quotas are in general a terrible way of dealing with scarcity. They lead to terrific economic inefficiency.
A more appropriate way is to all prices to float freely -- people will consume less wh ... |
| Topic: What's your personal response to PO ?? |
mmm
Replies: 26
Views: 4559
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:32 pm Subject: personal response |
Sold home (had a mortgage more than a quarter of million $ -- too much debt). Moved into rental.
Sold all stocks in 401k plan.
Made basic plans to move in with relatives when things get bad. |
| Topic: is coal liquefaction a net energy loser? |
mmm
Replies: 4
Views: 1504
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:15 am Subject: is coal liquefaction a net energy loser? |
| If so, why is it currently being pursued in South Africa? And didn't Nazi Germany use it with some success? And isn't China talking about using it? |
| Topic: Why Isn't Peak Oil Mainstream News? |
mmm
Replies: 55
Views: 9225
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:59 pm Subject: conspiracy |
| I'm kind of uncomfortable with giving conspiracy as the reason no one in the major news organizations are talking about peak oil. Conspiracy is practically never the correct explanation. Even if we ... |
| Topic: [Peak Oil... novels] |
mmm
Replies: 61
Views: 19860
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Forum: Book/Media Reviews Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:28 am Subject: suggestion |
| "Canticle for Leibowitz" |
| Topic: Are there any peakers from Ny |
mmm
Replies: 5
Views: 1010
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:47 pm Subject: Manhattan here |
| I live in Manhattan |
| Topic: Surely economists should not care about Peak Oil? |
mmm
Replies: 5
Views: 1530
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:40 pm Subject: classical theory |
I don't think classical economic theory is not flawed. It states that substitutions will occur for oil as its price increases -- no one on this board would disagree with that.
The problem is that ... |
| Topic: Current Situation & 2005 Projections |
mmm
Replies: 22
Views: 4079
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:53 pm Subject: before peak oil |
| In the meantime, even before peak oil sets in, there is "peak money". Everything points to something major for the U.S. dollar in the next few months. Likely the Russians will begin to sell oil to G ... |
| Topic: $250k to invest |
mmm
Replies: 14
Views: 3023
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:58 am Subject: $250k to invest |
| I have $250k to invest -- currently in a dollar-denominated money-market account earning about 2%. Given the coming risks of hyperinflation and stock market & real estate market collapse, can som ... |
| Topic: Tankless water heaters |
mmm
Replies: 8
Views: 2785
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:08 pm Subject: tankless water heater |
| A relative of mine just installed a tankless water heater. I don't know what exactly went wrong with the installation, but the way the thing works is to cycle on and off a few times a second as curre ... |
| Topic: why the economy is not reacting to this oil price |
mmm
Replies: 13
Views: 2269
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:26 pm Subject: why the economy is not reacting to this oil price |
Much has been made about how the current oil price of $55 is below the 1981 inflation-adjusted price of $80.
But one thing I've been considering -- if it currently takes half as much oil to fuel a ... |
| Topic: The Female Perspective on Peak Oil |
mmm
Replies: 38
Views: 5210
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:00 am Subject: The Female Perspective on Peak Oil |
| The impression I got from watching Frontier House was that, in the 1880s, you needed to chop wood like crazy, in every spare moment, just to get through the winter. The men were chopping constantly, i ... |
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