ABC Oz: World Oil Prices Surge Overnight
Posted by Prof. Goose on November 22, 2005 - 12:45am
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1513226.htm
any evidence of this out there? just stumbled across this surfing peakoil.com...
Posted by Prof. Goose on November 22, 2005 - 12:45am
any evidence of this out there? just stumbled across this surfing peakoil.com...
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/cfutures.html
While the report seemed to implicate an especially harsh winter, the notion that cold weather drives energy futures has been described as the Homer Simpson school of analysis (after his efforts to make money buying pumpkins in summer). Everyone knows winter is cold, so it gets priced in (according to the economists)
http://energystockblog.com/article/4320
so yes, i call that a surge and it happened for the following reasons:
Curious.
We might be in luck
Look what appeared in the Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17319555%255E643,00.html
Campbell '99, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s49069.htm
Simmons and Campbell, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2004/s1249210.htm
The WA Sustainable Transport Coalition organised the lecture in conjunction with ASPO-oz.
Nothing new for me in the presentation (I'm only an interested observer) , but good emphasise on the need to force government into action.
The speaker was introduced by the minister (for something) Judy Edwards.
Question time was dominated by Engineers, Geo's and an Economist which kept things interesting.
The ABC and The Australian newspaper have had small articles or interviews relating to it.
Bigcahuna