November 7, 2006 – I have never believed that Peak Oil was real despite the plethora of experts that claim its legitimacy. In life, the majority of people will believe something as long as enough talking heads repeat the same thing and enough newspapers proclaim it as “fact” or “inevitable”. In fact, you can find [...]

October 30, 2006 – With the new politically manipulated and artificially created highs in the U.S. stock markets, which in turn has spurred optimism in other global markets, there has been much accompanying speculation about oil retreating to $40 a barrel oil and even to $20 a barrel (which I think will never happen). Personally, [...]

October 30, 2006 – “The United States is a damned country that deserves only to be cursed. It declares its own occupation of our lands legitimate, but brands our resistance as terrorist”- Ahmed Ibrahim, Libyan parliament deputy speaker, April 2006. I opened this blog with that comment to illustrate that money and greed will many [...]

October 12, 2006 – As an afterthought on my blog entitled “State of Denial”, I thought about the accusation author Bob Woodward made that the Bush Administration, prior to the 2004 Presidential elections, asked then Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, to keep oil prices down (watch the video here). Again, given [...]

September 16, 2006 – Everywhere in the media, you have pundits saying that the commodities Bull Run is over – including even chief global economists of major investment firms like Steven Roach of Morgan Stanley. They’re all wrong. This is a case of everyone panicking from sharp corrections that no doubt have caused millions of [...]