Energy
Sep 5th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Western nations — the U.S., in particular — are now experiencing the bow wave of a profound change in the current and future availability of oil. According to recently published data, oil output from all major Western oil companies is on an ominous decline trend. Exxon Mobil, for example, announced ...
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Tags: Global Oil Problems, national oil companies, NOC, Western oil companies, Western oil supply, world's oil resources
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Mogadishu, Mumbai, Mangalore…all trading cities along the fabled rim of the Indian Ocean. These eastern African cities thrived between the 12th and 18th centuries, with ships sailing in and out on monsoon winds. They will thrive again on the tailwind of a long-term bull market ...
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Tags: African oil supply, African trade routes, Congo oil sands, investing in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 26th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy, Technology
Imagine a municipal bus that’s powered by an electric motor, crawling along the crowded streets of Beijing. What does this bus have in common with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California?
Or imagine offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Alaska or the North Sea. What do ...
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Tags: electric hybrid vehicles, electricity from microturbines, investing in microturbines, microturbines, offshore platforms, the Beijing bus
Posted in Energy, Technology |
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Aug 20th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Energy, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Last year, I devoted several issues of my Strategic Investment service to the web of structured finance. I think it paid off.
Since then, banks and brokerage stocks were punished. Energy and material stocks have soared-thanks to the Fed’s inflation campaign. Fed officials have taken their ability to devalue the U.S. ...
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Tags: Energy, George Soros, gold, more government regulation, natural resources, super bubble
Posted in Energy, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Aug 18th, 2008 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Energy, Technology
As a nation, we recycle almost 33% of our waste — a rate that has doubled in just 15 years. According the EPA, The U.S. now recycles 52% of all paper, 31% of all soft drink bottles, 45% of all aluminum cans, 63% of all steel packaging, and 67% of ...
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Tags: catalytic pyrolysis, polymer energy, valuable crude oil, waste plastics
Posted in Energy, Technology |
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Aug 7th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy
As I drive across Canada and down into North Dakota, I’m seeing energy everywhere.
The farms are well tended, and the agricultural productivity is awe-inspiring. There are wind farms up, and going up, on many a hillside. Power lines crisscross the landscape. There are dams and impoundments on many of the ...
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Tags: Bakken Shale formation, Investing in Western Oil, North American energy sector, North Dakota Oil Rush
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Jul 17th, 2008 |
By Penny Sleuth Contributor |
Category: Energy, Housing, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
As I wrote last week, it’s pretty clear times are tough right now. With three quarters of the population thinking we’re already in a recession and the market sinking by the day, I don’t think there’s any more debating as to whether or not we’re in bear market territory.
So the ...
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Tags: decrease in Home sales, Decrease in Market Index Levels, Increase in Energy Prices, Market Hasn't Bottomed Yet
Posted in Energy, Housing, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Jul 14th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy
With the price of oil doubling in the past year, there are more fingers being pointed than solutions being offered. Unfortunately, one of the biggest “culprits” garnering much of the blame has been the oil speculators. Congress has decided to make them the scapegoat for our energy concerns, and unfortunately ...
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Tags: energy policy, growing energy demand, U.S. energy issues
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Jul 10th, 2008 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Energy, Technology
By a wide margin, the United States has the largest coal reserves on the planet. The coal supplies in the U.S. account for 95% of its fossil fuel reserves and a whopping 60% of the fuel reserves in the world, according to the American Coal Foundation.
Yes, coal prices have continued ...
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Tags: carbon capture technology, carbon dioxide emissions, United States coal
Posted in Energy, Technology |
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Jun 18th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy
I received an email from a Washington, D.C. advocacy group urging me to urge my U.S. Senators to “support the Climate Security Act.” Climate security? This is legislation to set up emissions trading or a “Cap & Trade” system for carbon-based energy supplies.
Basically, the government sets up a national limit ...
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Tags: carbon energy supply, Climate Security Act
Posted in Commodities, Energy |
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