TOM WHIPPLE

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- Cambridge Energy’s new report

Not many years from now, there will be a huge uproar over who missed the coming of peak oil. There will be Congressional hearings and much finger pointing and protestations that the peaking of world oil production was impossible to predict.

A weekly review including:
- The day of the whistleblower
- A New focus for the World Energy Outlook
- Production and prices
- Oil and the recovery
- Quote of the Week
- Briefs

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- IEA wacked before report released

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- Recovery or Speculation?
- Climate Change
- Peak Demand
- Quote of the Week
- Energy Stat of the Week
- Briefs

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- A leak from the IEA

This month Scientific America is back on track with a cover story entitled "A Plan for a Sustainable Future - How to get all energy from wind, water and solar power by 2030." Getting rid of, or at least making a start on getting rid of fossil fuels in the U.S. over the next 20 years is something we should all be thinking about - especially if we want to leave much of anything to the grandchildren.

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- West Texas Intermediate
- Run-up to Copenhagen
- Quote of the Week
- Briefs

A weekly round-up including:
- Production and prices
- China
- Quote of the Week

Last week oil broke out of a months-long trading range and surged to $82 a barrel. For many of us who remember $140 oil from the summer of '08 this might not sound impressive until you are reminded that every time oil (adjusted for inflation) broke $80 a barrel some sort of economic recession occurred.