The Middle East seemed to be on the brink of war last week and oil prices fell. Was the market wrong? Brent futures price closed at $90.45 per barrel on Friday, April 12 before Iran’s missile a...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/oil-markets-were-unwise-but-right-in-the-israel-iran-crisis/
Perhaps the most extraordinary part of Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel was that it was countered by a coalition that included Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is als...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/almost-everything-is-about-oil-in-the-middle-east/
The latest conflict between Iran and Israel just made Europe’s already precarious energy and economic situation a lot worse. Many analysts and politicians are celebrating Europe’s resilience ...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/europes-metacrisis-just-got-worse/
How will climate change and destruction of the natural world affect the future? No one knows for sure but most-likely outcomes don’t look very good unless we do something radically different fr...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/radical-acceptance-of-the-human-predicament/
The oil bulls have come out of hibernation. Last week, the IEA (International Energy Agency) raised its oil demand forecast. This week, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) increased ...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/what-the-oil-and-commodity-bulls-are-missing/
Technology and innovation are overrated. They are the twin messiahs that are supposed to save us from ourselves if we only believe and pray hard enough. They won’t and there’s little evidence...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/technology-and-innovation-are-overrated-implications-for-ai/
Peak oil was fifty years ago. That was when the end of oil production growth resulted in the permanent decline in world GDP expansion. Peak oil was never about running out of oil. It was about un...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/peak-oil-is-dead-long-live-peak-oil/
If you are confused by low natural gas prices then comparative inventory is your friend. Companies have over-produced gas, storage is exploding, and prices have fallen. Comparative inventory (C.I...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/theres-nothing-confusing-about-natural-gas-prices/
Renewable energy is a poor substitute for fossil fuels. That’s because renewables are a diffuse form of energy and produce power only about one-third of the time. That doesn’t stop renewable ...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/telling-the-truth-about-our-future/
Renewable energy capacity is expected to expand dramatically in the next few decades in order to get climate change under control. Because wind and solar are intermittent sources of electric powe...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-energy-transition-is-being-led-by-a-clown-car/
The CEO of TotalEnergies believes that the renewable transition will lead to higher—not lower—energy prices. That’s a very different view from the popular belief that renewable energy price...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/renewables-are-not-the-cheapest-form-of-power/
Industry and gas-producing states are furious about the Biden Administration’s announcement to temporarily pause new approvals on pending Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exports. “Instead of addr...
https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-lng-export-pause-is-irrelevant/