[sustran] Re: Forecasting 2045 oil price
Lee Schipper
schipper at wri.org
Thu Oct 6 20:01:34 JST 2005
Surely for most of the world other sources of energy and fuels for
vehicles would kick in long before we reached such a high base price
(before taxes)....
>>> papon at inrets.fr 10/6/2005 2:33:19 AM >>>
Dear SUSTRAN readers,
I have written a paper about future oil prices. If you are interested,
you can ask me to send it to you, since the list does not accept it as
attached file. Here is the abstract:
Here is proposed an attempt at forecasting 2045 oil prices with
declining oil production. Apart from an oil production series, world
population is the only available input variable. The world economy can
be perfectly modelled with sustained growth in spite of oil decline. On
the contrary, modelling oil price is tricky, showing poor fits, with
population and economy not being significant variables. If included,
time absorbs all explaining power, and jeopardizes the model. The only
remaining explaining variable is oil production growth (or decline)
rate. But unless economy is forced into the model as a denominator, oil
price remains in moderate ranges. Even when the cost of oil as part of
economy is directly considered, one baril of oil should sell between
$50 and $225 in 2045 (in 2005 US dollars).
Such prices surely need adaptations from all sectors to reduce fuel
consumption, but should not change dramatically the picture of traffic
in cities: for example, at current taxation levels in France, a $225
per baril crude oil price would mean only a doubling of current fuel
prices for motorists, which should not be a sufficient deterrent for
those who appreciate showing off excessively big private vehicles in
crowdy cities.
I should be pleased by any comment.
Sincerely Yours,
Francis Papon, mailto:papon at inrets.fr, tel +33 (0)1 4740 7270,
ICPC,INRETS/DEST/EEM/HEGEL-PMG,
Researcher at the Department of Transport Economics and Sociology at
the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research
INRETS, 2, avenue du General Malleret-Joinville, 94114 Arcueil Cedex,
France
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