This is late but we all need to deal with disappointment in our lives. Memorable events for 2009: Heading to Chicago Thanksgiving weekend freezing at the lake Freezing at the cabin in late April with snow on the ground Favorite books I read in 2009: The BLDGBlog Book The War by Ken Burns The Kennedys [...]
Posts Tagged ‘peak oil’
Christmas Gift Guide: Gifts for Really Smart People
You need a gift for someone smart, someone who wants to know about everything – what happened, how it works, why it all got started. Fortunately, the globally curious have a lot of hobbies which makes them kind of easy to shop for, even if you don’t always remember to sleep and eat. Below are [...]
Warren Buffett’s $26 billion gamble on the next big thing
This is huge Most investors looking for the "next big thing" seek out whiz-bang investments like alternative energy, lifesaving biotech drugs, handheld Internet devices and, for doomsayers, hard assets like gold. Railroads, which had their heyday in another era, are rarely mentioned as a must-have investment for those looking to get rich. So why is [...]
BP finds giant new crude oil field in the Gulf of Mexico
First the good news and that is British Petroleum has found a giant crude oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. It may be one of the biggest oil finds of the year, if not the decade. In recent weeks, executives at BP’s exploration centers in Houston and London have been closely tracking the progress [...]
Think about this…
Click for larger version. If for a minute you would like ponder the significance of this chart. Does this mean we have passed "peak rock" and by drilling off shore will it mean the end of the boy bands? Because if it does, I could see myself supporting McCain/Palin.
The Long Emergency: Surviving Catastophies of the 21st Century
An hour long video of James Howard Kunstler speaking on The Long Emergency and the impact that peak oil is going to have on western civilization.
