[Newsseeker]

Tom Whipple does a great job for ASPO-USA...

[TheDude]

Graeme recently started another thread which ostensibly was based (I think) around Tom's column in the Falls Church News-Press, it got derailed/abandoned/who knows? I figured he should have a dedicated thread here. Tom is a marvelous writer and does a great job of collating all the latest news in peak oil; indispensable reading for all.

His columns invariably get picked up at EnergyBulletin.net, and I catch the latest headlines there using our PeakPortal.

I notice something called www.tomwhipple.com is under construction as well.

You da man, Mr. Whipple!

[drakedaggers]

wow very doomerish. Leave it to Tom Whipple to always have something concise and right on to add to the dialogue.

Living off our stockpiles cannot last. Prices are gonna be quickly going up big time and shortages are gonna start showing up. By 2010 our lives are going to be drastically changed especially with no more oil coming in from Mexico.

Let's hope for the best in people and in our adaptability to change.

The Word of the day is DOWNSIZE, I know I try to communicate it to everyone I interact with

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('drakedaggers', 'L')et's hope for the best in people and in our adaptability to change.

[ThunderChunky]

Every summer is the summer of doom. But hey, a broken watch is right twice a day.

[grampybone]

Quite the doomerish article and right on target.

[IslandCrow]

As some bard or other put it:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ow is the [s]winter[/s] summer of our discontent

[KevO]

so fall and winter will be better?
and spring?

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'A')s if they want to make things as bad as they can get them before things go under. Can someone explain this to me?

[Phoeberose]

I'm new here, and relatively uninformed, compared to all of you. Thanks to you I am learning quickly. Could someone please explain/define stockpiles and reserves, national and global? And do the numbers include the govt's Strategic Reserves?

[JJ]

the local paper (Austin American) keeps printing letters to the editor about if we only could drill in ANWAR we wouldn't be dependant on foriegn oil anymore.

[Cashmere]

Idiot Conservative - "If we could only drill in ANWAR we wouldn't be in this mess."

Idiot Liberal - "If we would just invest in alternatives, we wouldn't be in this mess."

[TheDude]

Do they always misspell ANWR? That extra A makes it look similar to Ghawar, always seemed like some subconscious mental slip to me.

Phoeberose - Wolf at the Door is an excellent PO primer. Stock(pile)s are simply how much oil/gasoline/etc. we have in the distribution/storage system. Note that this has to remain above a certain Minimum Operating Level, or MOL. In the US for crude oil this is ca. 270 million barrels.

The US Government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) website lists inventories of stocks of crude, with or without the SPR.

Hope that helps, and wilkommen!

[Roy]

[joelcolorado]

My buddy says the crowds have not arrived in Branson Missouri yet. They are worried now. Usually wall to wall ppl.

[Byron100]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joelcolorado', 'M')y buddy says the crowds have not arrived in Branson Missouri yet. They are worried now. Usually wall to wall ppl.

[frankthetank]

Gasmon-

Do you want Beckham back?

[Kristen]

Truck drivers in the United States get 30,700 - 15, 743, or about 12,000 pounds, after taxes. You'd be better off being a yardmaster at a railroad company and make 60,000.

As to the summer of doom, I expect things to only to be a fraction worse than they are corrently at. Besides, everything always looks better in the rear view mirror. There's a certaintity to it.