Overview

Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe? This book points out flaws in the research used to warn of an oil shortfall and predicts that large new reserves of oil are soon to be tapped. In the last decade, oil experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a peak in oil production around the world was about to be reached and that global economic distress would result when this occurred. But it didn't happen. The ""Peak Oil"" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood refutes the recent claims that world oil production is nearing a peak and threatening economic disaster by analyzing the methods used by the theory's proponents. Author Michael C. Lynch, former researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), debunks the ""Peak Oil"" crisis prediction and describes how the next few years will instead see large amounts of new supply that will bring oil prices down and boost the global economy. This book will be invaluable to those involved in the energy industry, including among those fields that are competing with oil, as well as financial institutions for which the price of oil is of critical importance. Lynch uncovers the facts behind the misleading news stories and media coverage on oil production as well as the analytic process that reveals the truth about the global oil supply. General readers will be dismayed to learn how governments have frequently been led astray by seeming logical theories that prove to have no sound basis and will come away with a healthy sense of skepticism about popular economics.

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Author:   Michael C. Lynch ,  Leonardo Maugeri ,  Leonardo Maugeri
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.077kg
ISBN:  

9781440831867

ISBN 10:   1440831866
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   25 July 2016
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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[T]he account is written in an engaging conversational tone; displays many figures, graphs, and charts; and is very informative. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. - Choice

[T]he account is written in an engaging conversational tone; displays many figures, graphs, and charts; and is very informative. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *

Author Information

Michael C. Lynch is president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, Inc. He serves as a lecturer in the MBA program at Vienna University, Austria, and blogs on energy for Forbes.com.

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