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Peak oil

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Environmentalism

After 53 Earth Days, Society Still Hasn't Collapsed

The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2022 3:15 PM

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Oil prices

OPEC and Russia Agree To Cut Oil Production To Boost Prices

U.S. and Canada are supposed to agree to cut 5 million barrels

Ronald Bailey | 4.9.2020 5:05 PM

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Oil

Trump Praises America's Oil and Natural Gas Production in State of the Union Address

The U.S. is the world's biggest producer of oil and natural gas

Ronald Bailey | 2.5.2019 11:35 PM

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Oil prices

How Cartels and Political Uncertainty Cause Rising Oil and Gas Prices

Rising U.S. oil production will moderate future price increases.

Ronald Bailey | 5.15.2018 12:15 PM

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Peak oil

U.S. Oil Production Will Exceed Its 1971 Peak This Year

So much for peak oil doom!

Ronald Bailey | 2.7.2018 2:15 PM

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Peak oil

Peak Oil: What Ever Happened to Hubbert's Peak?

Next year U.S. oil production will exceed its 1970 peak.

Ronald Bailey | 7.27.2017 10:55 AM

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Peak oil

OPEC Cracks?

'Oil prices could head for another substantial fall,' says Harvard analyst.

Ronald Bailey | 3.14.2017 3:05 PM

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Peak oil

Remembering Peak Oil: Saudi Arabian Production Was Supposed to Peak in 2006

It didn't.

Ronald Bailey | 2.21.2017 3:30 PM

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Peak oil

Peak Oil? Cue Crickets Chirping

Great article asks "Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?" over at RealClear Politics*

Ronald Bailey | 9.29.2016 9:30 AM

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Peak oil

U.S. Oil Reserves Bigger Than Saudi Arabia's

Peak oil still nowhere in sight

Ronald Bailey | 7.5.2016 12:31 PM

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Policy

Sliding Down the Super-Cycle: Resource Doom Postponed Indefinitely

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham admits he was wrong about "peak everything."

Ronald Bailey | 5.13.2016 1:30 PM

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Super-Cycles

Current Commodity Super-Cycle Slide Confounds Resource Doomsters

Investor Jeremy Grantham makes "an admission of a past mistake on resources."

Ronald Bailey | 5.13.2016 1:30 PM

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Oil prices

Oil Output Freeze by Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Qatar: So What?

Would-be oil cartelizers will fail in the long run

Ronald Bailey | 2.16.2016 3:09 PM

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Peak oil

A Response To: Where Have All the Peak Oilers Gone?

Dancing on the grave of peak oil clearly annoys somebody.

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2016 3:10 PM

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Peak oil

Where Have All the Peak Oilers Gone?

Dancing on the grave of "peak oil" - will it stay buried?

Ronald Bailey | 1.21.2016 9:16 AM

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Oil prices

Oil Price Super-Cycle Collapse: Party Like It's 1998?

Never bet against human ingenuity operating in free markets.

Ronald Bailey | 1.7.2016 11:03 AM

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The End of Doom

Ronald Bailey Talks About The End of Doom on C-SPAN Book TV

The anti-doomsaying book for this decade*

Ronald Bailey | 1.1.2016 1:30 PM

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The End of Doom

Slate Says "Upwing" With The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey

Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2015 10:11 AM

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Peak oil

Oil Prices to Fall to $20 Per Barrel?

Surprise: Oil production did not peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005

Ronald Bailey | 9.11.2015 11:03 AM

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The End of Doom

Malthusians v. Cornucopians, a more critical review of The End of Doom

Bailey responds to the criticism below

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2015 12:32 PM

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Peak oil

Peak Oilers Shut Up Forever Please

Peak oil is comprehensively debunked in The End of Doom. Just saying.

Ronald Bailey | 8.11.2015 6:03 PM

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The End of Doom

Venessa Hughes of Buffalo, NY Hates The End of Doom, But You Might Like It

Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.

Ronald Bailey | 7.21.2015 10:06 AM

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Peak oil

Hubbert's Peak Refuted: Peak Oil Theory Still Wrong

Who's a flat-earther now?

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2015 11:16 AM

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Policy

Mistaking Peak Prices for "Peak Everything"

Economic Super-cycles and Falling Commodity Prices

Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2015 1:30 PM

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Oil

So Much for Hubbert's Peak Oil Theory: $20 Per Barrel Oil Soon?

Peak oil theorists wrong again.

Ronald Bailey | 3.4.2015 10:18 AM

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Oil prices

Oil to Surge to $200 Per Barrel: Or Maybe Collapse to $20 Per Barrel

Whatever.

Ronald Bailey | 2.10.2015 11:41 AM

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Oil prices

Oil Prices Never Again Above $100 Per Barrel?

Ronald Bailey | 1.12.2015 12:03 PM

Politics

How Low Can Oil Prices Go?

Peak oil? What peak oil?

Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?

"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.

Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2014 1:30 PM

Environmentalism

Ronald Bailey Considers the Idea that the Way to Save Nature Is to Make It Worthless

Reason Staff | 11.10.2014 1:30 PM

Natural Gas

Ronald Bailey Asks is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?

"Ponzi scheme" or the end of Peak Oil?

Ronald Bailey | 9.19.2014 1:30 PM

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Policy

Fossil Fuels Forever

No peak within sight

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2013 7:00 AM

Science & Technology

Arab Oil Embargo: Happy 40th Anniversary!

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2013 5:31 PM

Peak oil

Peak Oil Peters Out: Neo-Malthusian Cult Website The Oil Drum Shuts Down

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2013 4:46 PM

Policy

Remembering "Peak Oil" Madness

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2012 3:31 PM

Economics

U.S. Oil Output at Highest level in 15 Years

Burn those dinosaurs

Reason Staff | 10.3.2012 10:28 PM

Politics

100 Years of Natural Gas

President Obama is right about the bright future of American energy.

Reason Staff | 2.14.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future

The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.

Ronald Bailey | 4.5.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

Oil Price Shocks and the Recession of 2011?

Ten of the last 11 recessions were preceded by oil price hikes.

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2011 5:15 PM

Politics

Gas Prices Explained

Solving the deep mystery of gasoline price fluctuations

Ronald Bailey | 8.31.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

Peak Everything?

Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorus?

Ronald Bailey | 4.27.2010 3:15 PM

Policy

On Being a 21st Century Peasant

Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book on the coming global collapse.

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2010 4:30 PM

Economics

Political Peak Oil

One thing stands in the way of secure and abundant supplies of oil: Government

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2007 6:46 AM

Politics

Peak Oil Panic

Is the planet running out of gas? If it is, what should the Bush administration do about it?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

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