Energy and oil expert Byron King recently spent three weeks crossing North America as part of his “2008 Energy and Geology Tour.” The purpose of the journey was to search for new ideas and resource opportunities that can benefit investors. In the following extract from The Daily Reckoning, Byron tells readers what he learned first hand about the Bakken Formation and the Marcellus Shale…

More news on the Silent Spring front from oil and energy expert Byron King.

Byron, on his Energy and Oil blog, has a great piece on the future of aviation. He reckons big changes are coming thanks to high crude oil prices…

Mother Nature is taking her revenge in the form of high-priced oil. The cost of jet fuel is soaring. The airplanes of the world are starting to get grounded. The skies of the future will not be so crowded. Flying will cease to be an option for many tens of millions of Americans — maybe for hundreds of millions.