Comments on: Peak Oil and the Meltdown (2): the volatility trap https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peak-oil-and-the-meltdown-2-the-volatility-trap/2009/08/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Gaskat https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peak-oil-and-the-meltdown-2-the-volatility-trap/2009/08/12/comment-page-1#comment-417542 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:32:34 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=4366#comment-417542 Another all-to-plausible take on the link between oil price volatility and the economic crisis has been written about in an excellent essay on the web – Did oil price volatility cause the
financial crisis?

]]> By: Sepp https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/peak-oil-and-the-meltdown-2-the-volatility-trap/2009/08/12/comment-page-1#comment-417108 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:54:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=4366#comment-417108 Does anyone else have a feeling that oil prices may be purposely steered in a desired direction, that changes in oil prices are not necessarily due to a physical shortage of oil but to a refusal to develop new (already known) sources and ‘judicious’ buying/selling of oil futures to influence the price level?

My ideas on this are in these two blog posts:

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2008/02/the_peak_oil_deception_squeezi.html

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2008/11/renewable_coal_oil_and_gas_hyd.html

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