No Economic Recovery as Era of Cheap Oil Comes to an End | Free Investing

No Economic Recovery as Era of Cheap Oil Comes to an End

Submitted by Free Investing on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:15

Oilprice.com submits: When oil crossed $120 a barrel for the first time in May 2008, oil cornucopians knew they were in trouble. Prices had quadrupled in just five years, yet had failed to bring new production online. Regular crude had flatlined around 74 million barrels per day (mbpd). The case for peak oil was looking stronger with every new uptick in crude futures.The following month, prominent peak oil critic and cornucopian Daniel Yergin of IHS-CERA changed his stance: The peak oil threat would be neutralized by peak demand. Gasoline consumption had peaked in the U.S. and Europe, he argued, due to the combined effects of increasing efficiency, biofuels, and the recession.Complete Story »

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