[ Yet another “crash coming soon” post, if it hasn’t happened already (I scheduled this article and others to appear a year or more later, since crashes always take longer to happen than you expect. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “ When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation ”, 2015, Springer and “ Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers ”. Podcasts: Practical Prepping , KunstlerCast 253 , KunstlerCast278 , Peak Prosperity , XX2 report ] Denning, L. March 30, 2016. The extend-and-pretend oil market . Bloomberg.com In several recent reports, energy economist Phil Verleger has laid out the unsettling similarities between the U.S. residential construction bubble and the later surge in oil and gas drilling investment. We’ll still be arguing decades from now about exactly why we collectively went crazy for Floridian sub-divisions and the like, but cheap and plentiful credit was clearly a big […]