Summary: Peak oil impacts in various ways on toll-ways financed by debt. As mentioned in a previous post
peak oil = peak credit
http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=430
This means that it has become harder to re-finance or roll-over debt. Secondly, higher fuel prices reduce the paying capacity of motorists for tolls. Thirdly, a recession means fewer trips to jobs. [...]
Data published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA, International Petroleum Monthly) in January 2010 show that crude oil production for October 2009 just exceeded 73 mb/d, a level reached several times in the last years during the 4th quarter. The increase is a result of US oil production going up (=recovery during a hurricane free [...]
This is the 2nd annual report card. The 2008 report is here: http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=403
The 2009 report is structured and packaged by topic, rather than just month by month as in the 2008 report. The 1st part in this 2009 report card series is on how the government deals with peak oil in the process of developing [...]
When investing money, everyone calculates how profitable that is, either in interest paid from bonds, dividends received from shares or cash flows from a business. But for all these investments to be successful we need energy. So how about energy supply projects: how much energy do they return for the energy invested?
This is the 4th [...]