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The "peak oil" scare and the coming oil flood /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, Michael C. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]
Subjects:
Petroleum products > Prices.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Petroleum reserves.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The end of (oil) days
  • Déjà vu
  • Going wrong with confidence
  • Abundance and its enemies
  • The Hubbert curve ball
  • Get thee to a statistics class
  • From small acorns
  • The strange controversy over Saudi oil production
  • Track record
  • She blinded me with science
  • This is science
  • Motivations
  • Real world problems
  • The red queen
  • Resources
  • The cost of production
  • How high were my prices?
  • Tipping point for prices
  • The shale revolution
  • In vino veritas
  • Supply curves
  • Lower energy prices
  • Impact on competing technologies
  • Conclusions.