Re: The End of Oil
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:38 am
Drilling more in US has no effect on gasoline prices
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/21/35 ... didnt.html
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/21/35 ... didnt.html
I love how they took a complex multi-variate problem and collapsed it down to a simple bi-variate "study" - if you want to call it that. It's a pretty worthless piece of work. Of course drilling the US has an impact on price, it's a supply and demand world, but because we don't produce all that much relative to the rest of the world, it isn't an enormous impact and it gets lost in the clutter of all the other things going on. US consumers still can impact the price more than US producers can. Look at natural gas prices if you want to see how drilling in the US can impact the price of a natural resource; of course, that is an entirely local market but we should at least be looking at NG as a transportation fuel to compete with oil....now that would have an impact on oil prices.FangKC wrote:Drilling more in US has no effect on gasoline prices
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/21/35 ... didnt.html
Could never work here because you know, its so much sunnier in Germany.FangKC wrote:Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country's Weekend Power Demand
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"The gang buys a solar panel"mean wrote:It's always sunny in North Rhine-Westphalia.
I never understood this talk by Romney and Obama about "energy independence." One does not go to Quik Trip to choose between "American gasoline, "Venezuelan gasoline" or "Saudi Arabian gasoline."aknowledgeableperson wrote:It appears the date of "The End of Oil" and "Peak Oil" has been pushed back. Now the talk is by 2020 the USA will be an exporter of oil, that the USA will be energy independent. And if so I would guess the talk about the end of the suburbs, especially the fringe, will have a different tone.
I think from Obama's perspective at least, there is also a starve the beast angle to energy independence, and one of the largest reasons why I think he supports moving away from oil in favor of subsidized "green" sources of energy. "Green" is a label and a biproduct, but "alternative" is a better descriptor of what we are trying to find. The easiest way to hurt the monied establishment in the Middle East is not by drilling for oil locally. As has been discussed, this has little economic impact on the price and demand for oil locally vs. the global market. If we can develop batteries to the point where we can burn anything or use solar and wind more effectively, and promote this model on a global scale, the demand for gasoline will drop, the profitability of deep sea and wilderness exploration of oil will diminish, and the entire world's dependence on countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia will deteriorate. Continuing to live in an oil soaked economy will never have such an impact, no matter where the oil comes from.pash wrote:Where the oil comes from is significant from a national security/international policy perspective. It's not from an economic perspective.
Actually, it does (depending on what we consider significant) both directly and indirectly. WTI has always traded higher than Brent Crude. It's a better quality crude. It's been consistently trading about $15 lower - mostly due to increased production in the US and, to some extent, the leveling off of demand. Indirectly, oil produced in the US produces jobs: Technical jobs, production jobs, transportation jobs, and refining jobs.pash wrote:Where the oil comes from is significant from a national security/international policy perspective. It's not from an economic perspective.
The USA will never ever be an exporter of oil. It will never be remotely close to being in that position. The only way it could ever be self sufficient in oil would be for a new technology to replace oil dropping demand to nil.aknowledgeableperson wrote:It appears the date of "The End of Oil" and "Peak Oil" has been pushed back. Now the talk is by 2020 the USA will be an exporter of oil, that the USA will be energy independent. And if so I would guess the talk about the end of the suburbs, especially the fringe, will have a different tone.
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