Category Archives: Oil

Is there an endless supply of oil?

(Dec. 2, 2009) In doing some research on my modest energy investments, I came across a link that led me to a website called Energy Probe where I discovered a very interesting article entitled Endless Oil by Canadian environmentalist, Lawrence Solomon, which if true, could cause anti-fossil fuel Greens to turn hotly red. Continue reading

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Why high oil prices won’t save our planet

(March 28, 2000) Oil prices are sky high but the sky is not falling. Improvements in efficiency since the oil price shocks in the 1970s means that high prices won’t cause a repeat of the nasty economic indigestion we suffered then. Continue reading

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Petro-Can hopes

(January 27, 2000) Kudos to our federal government if it gets out of Petro-Can, a venture it should never have started. Once they are no longer an investor, the feds may do a better job enforcing environmental rules in the oilpatch. Continue reading

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