2012 – THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that...
View ArticleCONNECTING THE DOTS
There is one thing most TBP members have in common. They reach logical conclusions based upon the facts. The reason we find ourselves constantly frustrated by everything going on around us is that the...
View ArticleIT ONLY TOOK A GLOBAL DEPRESSION TO REDUCE GAS PRICES BY 40 CENTS
You can’t watch the mainstream media propaganda channels for more than ten minutes without a talking head breathlessly announcing that gas prices have dropped for the 24th day in a row and are now back...
View ArticleTRYING TO STAY SANE IN AN INSANE WORLD – AT WORLD’S END
In the first three parts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) of this disheartening look back at a century of central banking, income taxing, military warring, energy depleting and political corrupting, I made a...
View ArticlePeak Oil with Steve Ludlum from Economic Undertow
Off the microphones of Steve, Monsta and RE Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Aired on the Doomstead Diner on May 18, 2014 Discuss this article at the Energy Table inside the...
View ArticleOUR TOTALITARIAN FUTURE – PART TWO
In Part One, I asked questions your keepers don’t want to answer truthfully, while providing the contextual setting for how our over-populated world is progressing relentlessly towards a future of war...
View ArticleROADTRIP OBSERVATIONS
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN JULY 2011 – FRESHMAN ORIENTATION DAY On Thursday night we drove to Altoona, PA campus of Penn State. It took three and a half hours to get there. Virtually the entire trip was...
View ArticleFRACKED UP
There is no doubt that fracking stopped the long-term decline in U.S. oil output. Since the all-time low output in 2006, daily oil production has increased by 30%. Natural gas production has soared...
View ArticleENERGY INDEPENDENCE – THE BIG LIE
PRICE OF A BARREL OF OIL 1978 – $14.00 “We are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process, rebuild the unity and confidence of America.” - President Jimmy Carter,...
View ArticleCrushing The U.S. Energy Export Dream
Facts versus fantasy storyline. Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com, Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time. Exporting gas is...
View ArticleWHERE’S OUR OIL PRICE COLLAPSE?
Make no mistake about it, without plentiful, cheap, and easy to access oil, the United States of America would descend into chaos and collapse. The fantasies painted by “green” energy dreamers only...
View ArticleWHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS NOW IS HOPE
Finch: Why are you doing this? Evey Hammond: Because he was right. Finch: About what? Evey Hammond: That the world needs more than just a building right now. It needs hope. The dialogue above...
View ArticleWhat, Me Worry About Peak Oil?
Guest Post by Art Berman Congress ended the U.S. crude oil export ban last week. There is apparently no longer a strategic reason to conserve oil because shale production has made American great again....
View ArticleOil Prices Lower Forever? Hard Times In A Failing Global Economy
Guest Post by Art Berman Two years into the global oil-price collapse, it seems unlikely that prices will return to sustained levels above $70 per barrel any time soon or perhaps, ever. That is because...
View ArticleBusting Media Myths On Peak Oil
Submitted by Kurt Cobb via OilPrice.com, Almost synonymous with the term “peak oil” is M. King Hubbert, perhaps the foremost geophysicist of the 20th century, who first theorized about the eventual...
View ArticleWORLDS MADE BY HAND
Having recently finished reading The Harrows of Spring, the fourth and final novel of Jim Kunstler’s World Made By Hand series, I couldn’t help but compare and contrast his dystopian post economic...
View ArticleBust In The US Shale Patch—–$36 Billion Of Negative Free Cash Flow In The Bakken
Via Stockman’s Contra Corner The Death of the Great Bakken Oil Field has begun and very few Americans understand the significance. Just a few years ago, the U.S. Energy Industry and Mainstream media...
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Party On, Dudes
Guest Post by Jim Kunstler As of this week, the shale oil miracle launched US oil production above the 1970 previous-all-time record at just over ten million barrels a day. Techno-rapturists are...
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Stormy Daniels and “Peak Oil”
Guest Post by Eric Peters Everyone knows about Stormy Daniels. How many know that more oil and natural gas are produced here, inside than the United States, than the U.S. needs for its own purposes –...
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OUR TOTALITARIAN FUTURE – PART TWO
In Part One, I asked questions your keepers don’t want to answer truthfully, while providing the contextual setting for how our over-populated world is progressing relentlessly towards a future of war...
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