Land of Black Gold

Re: my last point about there being enough natural gas to help mitigate the most serious impacts from oil peaking. There are issues with th...

Okay, I'm totally kidding. Peak oil is a serious problem, and one that I believe looms in front of us in the near future. However, thro...

CNBC: Nenner Cycle Signals Entry Point . You must also watch the Bloomberg video at his site to understand his full picture though. See top ...

Bloomberg: Charles Nenner Sees Opportunity in Commodity Stocks: Video . Note: To view the video, click on the link towards the right side, ...

Closed end funds are like ETFs (exchange traded funds) in that they are traded on an exchange like stocks, and are made up of a bundle of ot...

I see that Barry Ritholtz has come up with the moniker of "The Great Financial Crisis of 2008", but I personally like "The P...

When the New York Times starts bringing up the possibility of global cooling, you know it's about to get interesting. Note the oblique...

$230 million is sort of chump change for Warren Buffett, but it's interesting nonetheless. He also recently bought Constellation Energy...

Just as things are getting shaky again, and on a day that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and SEC C...

CNBC: S&P Head on Downgrades . Alternative title: Dylan Ratigan Goes Postal! Dylan Ratigan lets a guy from ratings company Standard ...

Daily Tech: Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century . Quote: The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar ...

Warren Buffett is nothing if not a disciplined investor, and he explains that his visit to the Alberta region was for information gathering ...

In spite of the hub-bub about greenhouse gas linked warming, there are a number of scientists who are convinced that solar activity is a muc...

Perhaps I should say "Man bites pandering politicians." This is great, and amazing. A new poll showing that Americans are smart e...

It's been a long time since I've done an Canadian oil sands post. These stocks have been clobbered along with everything else, but ...

I started looking at this yesterday. Among names that are seeing some buying: MMR HK GDP CLR HERO It's nice to see insiders jumping in h...

Using wind for electrical energy generation, shifting natural gas to a transportation fuel, reducing oil imports 50% in 10 years, yada yada ...

I think Tom Petrie might be right - a natural floor might be around $80 to $90 for oil. But I think we don't get there because of the w...

Alternative title: Taking the edge off peak oil. Oil is unlikely to go back to $30, even with this potential boom in shale gas production i...

Apparently, S-H-A-L-E. CNBC: Relief for America's Energy Crisis .

Stephen Leeb makes the interesting suggestion that we re-think "BRIC" - Brazil, Russia, India and China and substitute "BRAC...

CNBC: Oil's Biggest 3-Day Drop In 5 years . I'm surprised there was little mention in this video of the supply and demand factor. ...

I'm a bit of an agonistic on gold, but you can't bury your head in the sand and ignore it. Compounding financial crisis, inflation,...

shreveporttimes.com: CEO: Haynesville Shale is fourth largest in the world . Quotes: The Haynesville Shale is likely to become America's...

This is an interesting discussion of the impact of higher oil prices from the newspaper of record in the heart of car country, the Los Angel...

There's a little black spot on the sun today. It's the same old thing as yesterday, That's my soul up there. I have stood here b...

Ken Heebner is a mutual fund manager at CGM Funds and was recently dubbed " America's Hottest Investor " by Fortune Magazine....

We sure had it nice for a while, didn't we? Still a lot of conservation to go, apparently. WSJ: Gasoline Hits Average of $4 a Gallon . ...

We promise not to miss it this time. Bakken: CLR, EOG, HES, ERF, WLL, MRO, NOG. Haynesville: CHK, GDP, HK, GMXR, PVA. Marcellus: CHK, ATLS, ...

Something to think about, though I'd cite Tim Evans as a bigger skeptic, and so far, totally wrong. MSN Money: The end of the oil stock ...

Say goodnight to the SUV bubble and the associated cheap gasoline consumption bubble. The guy running GM needs to be thrown out. [Mulally a...

jacksonsun.com: Author, chief of investment firm weighs in on oil crisis . Quotes: Question: Is what we are seeing with oil prices a pricing...

MarketWatch: Report: IEA set to cut oil-supply forecast . Quotes: The Paris-based International Energy Agency is getting ready to issue a sh...

This last move in oil does have the feel of a short covering rally. If so, it will be interesting to see where it settles out when it's...

I'd guess the guy in the middle. Bloomberg: Oil Rises Above $134 on U.S. Supply Drop, Bank Price Forecasts . Quote: ``What we have here ...

CNBC: $12 Gas and Rationing? Possible, Says Expert . Quotes: "The prices that we're paying at the pump today are, I think, going to...

Sorry, I just couldn't resist. CNBC: Pickens: Oil Going to $150, So Move to Gas . Quotes: "Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day...

I sort of admired Barack Obama when I first heard about him, but his idea about windfall profit taxes on oil companies is about the quickest...

MarketWatch: Oil and gas producers lead London higher . Quotes: Goldman Sachs on Friday raised its forecast for the average price of West Te...

[Fundamentals = supply & demand.] I'm with Jerry Castellini. Oil is at ~ $125 mainly because of the fundamentals. If it were prima...

Infectious Greed: Great T. Boone Pickens Interview from Milken .

Amidst all of the noise, it's easy to forget that the US continues to be one of the world's largest exporters. The strong dollar po...

Seeing CNBC with features on oil all throughout the day makes me nervous we may be at a short term top. But what's going on with oil? E...

Written originally for a woman of a diametrically opposed political view, I'd like to dedicate this song to Hillary Clinton. She may not...

CNBC: Goldman: Natural Gas Crunch Possible This Winter . Goldman Sachs: $100 oil reality, part 2: Has the super-spike end game begun? [Other...