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It's not possible to determine the externalities in a metro/no metro comparison. The results of such comparisons are either subjective or based on an incomplete comparison.

A well-designed metro...

A better investment would probably be to use non-coal electricity for output growth and upgrade the existing coal-firing power plants with (better) emissions filters (or simply maintain existing ones...

Spoken like a hydroengineer.

Too bad the Austrians would gain nothing by building lots of dams. Their tourism sector would suffer terribly. They're already losing their glaciers and will fight to...

The Iranians do the same, as do actually many major oil exporters.

The reasons are multiple, I blame two the most:
* incompetence; people even in government don't understand opportunity costs...

This doesn't seem to fit.
You seem to forget to include opportunity costs into how much they lose.

This is not meant as a guide to make money or other economic advice, but if I was looking for profitable businesses or sectors, I'd -among other things- look at their relative position in the chain...

Bill, profitability and economic activity (or growth thereof) are different pairs of shoes.

My standard example which I offer to people who expect huge profits from growth market are airlines;...

Green energy stocks have crashed in Germany because the Chinese state subsidised its green energy (mostly photovoltaic) industry greatly. There are now surplus output capacities and the Chinese are...

Their related publications of the last years are here:
http://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Energie/Erdoel/erdoel_node.html
http://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Energie/Produkte/produkte_node.html

Not in English.

Look, crude oil is widely recognised as being a non-renewable resource and there is substantial consumption which won't stop on its own.
So there has to be some peak production sometime.

The...

I recognize that one.
That's a speculation on security policy consequences of peak oil and a literature review of peak oil literature without original research on "peak oil yes/no and when?" itself....

Which one?

Our military has no oil production experts. We've got a civilian agency for minerals stuff that bristles with experts instead.

Its latest report.

Not Nazi technology, especially not NAZI technology.

The tech dates back to 1920's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Tropsch
and is German technology.

Several plants were running (or are),...

The electrical grid is a classic example of a natural monopoly and should not be run by for-profit companies anyway.

I doubt that bureaucrats and their hirelings are a competent choice for...

Misifus, you play the insider expert card a bit too much.

Experts of all kinds disagree with experts of their very same kind quite often. Being an expert does not equal being correct, nor does...

The somewhat funny thing for me is that I do not care the least about global warming or peak oil.
I think there are already enough motivations to switch towards sustainable energy technologies...

Their hypothesis rests on the quite self-evident limitation of total deposits.
This hypothesis can be proved wrong by future events.

The assumption that these deposits will last long is not...

The scientific way is not to demand conclusive evidence for a theory; it merely needs superficial plausibility and falsifiability (dunno if that's the correct word, I learned this stuff in German).
...

Misifus, it's a common scientific (empirical) practice to look at outcomes in addition to models on what constitutes inputs.

It's thus totally legit to look at global output over time in search...

Keep in mind that different companies from different continents might actually be different. ;)

The unproven-ness of the reserves is linked to the unproven-ness of their ability to ramp up production.

They were pretty much caught lying about their oil and thus there's no real reason to...

Saudi oil reserve statistics / estimates have no value or credibility. Same for Kuwait.