Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century (Angel Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brian Hicks, Chris Nelder
Publisher: Wiley
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Pages: 286
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ISBN: 0470127368
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.823
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Publication Date: May 2, 2008
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"This book is a clearly written, succinct, and well-referenced summary of information about, and related to, what I believe will be the most important issue to strike Western civilization ever: the end of cheap oil. It is clear to me that how we make investments over the next few decades will determine whether we can survive the end of cheap oil and in what fashion. While I am not nearly as optimistic as the authors that there is a supply-side solution to the issues we will face 'post-peak oil,' they certainly have lots of good ideas as to where we might invest in alternatives. This book is a must-have on the shelf of any savvy investor as we face the second half of the age of oil."
-Charles Hall, ESF Foundation Distinguished Professor, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York
"Profit from the Peak will help you develop and maintain financial security as the price of oil soars and our globalized economy gets into trouble. Hicks and Nelder show how you and your community can tackle the long transition of relocalization. Learn about the power of locally generated energy-and benefit from their practical guide to investing in the most efficientand attractive of today's post-petroleum alternatives."
-Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute and author of High Noon for Natural Gas
"Brian and Chris deliver the painful yet potentially profitable truth about peak oil. Not theory anymore, but reality. This book is a must if you want a clear path to profits in the age of peak oil."
-Kevin Kerr, Editor of Dow Jones Global Resources Trader and President of Kerr Trading International
"Profit from the Peak shows not only why investment in alternative energy sources is about to skyrocket, but more importantly, where investment is going to pay off the most, by concisely describing the huge variety of upcoming energy sources and their relevant companies."
-Rembrandt Koppelaar, oil analyst, President of ASPO Netherlands
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 very updated August 1, 2008
Carlos Garcia (Caracas, venezuela)
It is en excellent book because one can have a good explanation about a very complex issue, therefore, one can understand better what happens whith the oil prices.
A View of the future July 30, 2008
John R. Coghill Jr. (Orland Park, Il USA)
A must read for anyone that wants to anticipate and profit from the certain decline of oil supplies. A logical, well written view of a very probable future of our world.
Well researched yet very readable July 25, 2008
ARDI (San Diego, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most of time while reading this book I was thinking, "Why didn't I know that?" I would recommend this well written and easy-to-understand book to everyone who wants to gain a broad understanding about what is going on with energy and oil. The target market appears to be the intelligent layman with helpful hints on how your investing strategy might benefit. Suddenly, when watching the talking heads you will spot the horrible, over-simplified, childish thinking that we are bombarded with every day, especially from the silver bullet types. It is well researched and referenced, and I highly recommend it.
excellent book July 15, 2008
William Cortvriendt
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. In a very comprehensive manner the writers explain why cheap oil really has come to an end and which alternatives do have a change te partially replace oil and why. For every possible alternative for oil they subsequently explain which companies are investment opportunities and which ones are not and why. Naturally all their predictions represent views into the unknown future. However after their logic explanations the future seems to be a little less unknown.
An easy and very interesting read.
 Drilling & Nukes Now June 30, 2008
R. Haley (HOUSTON, TX)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
Comments on Chris Nelder quotes.
Re: "Clean" coal? Commercially, it doesn't exist yet, and it probably won't exist in any significant measure for several decades."
After my wife and I recently contracted a sinus infection in China (related to breathing pollution from coal-fired plants), we stayed next door to a coal-fired electric generation plant in Okinawa. Its elaborate smoke-free stack emitted no pollution. Why was it built if not economical in the total sense of the word (before $140 per barrel)?
Re: "Obama's call for a complete overhaul of our national energy policy (if you could even call it that)? Now we're talking. I don't know that he could or would pull it off, but it's definitely the right idea."
How do you retain a semblance of individual freedom and the efficiency of regulated free markets, and have a centraly planned economy like that from which China is at last emerging? Why won't your or "Obama's call for a complete overhaul of our national energy policy" be another great-leap-forward disaster like China's? Will not legally mandated energy policies make us uncompetitive with China, Russia, and other countries?
Re: "Drill offshore and ANWR as soon as possible? Bad idea. I say this not for environmental reasons, but simply from an investing perspective. It won't help very much or for very long, it will take decades to come to market and it will only put us farther out on the limb of fossil fuel dependency. It makes far more financial sense to burn somebody else's oil for as long as possible, and save some of our own for a rainy day, when it will be in much greater demand and much more valuable. Judging from the gathering storm clouds of unstoppable oil prices and declining global oil exports, that rainy day is most certainly coming."
Doesn't "save some for a rainy day" "only put us farther out on the limb of fossil fuel dependency"? And, if "it will take decades to come to market," sholdn't to be ready be ready for "a rainy day"?
Re: "A hundred new nuclear reactors? Never going to happen. We're going to be lucky to replace the existing ones, many of which are nearing the ends of their planned life spans."
I don't find "Never going to happen" a very informative explanation. The US already generates 20% of its electricity from nuclear power and France generates 80%. With $140 oil and electric cars and commuter trains fast coming, replacing old nuclear plants and building new ones is inevitably "going to happen." And why shouldn't it?
Why do you not mention the underlying problem of both energy and environment - unsustainable population growth (doubled in last 50 years).
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