America’s Perfect Storm
A fiscal train wreck is one thing but when it is combined with the following elements it makes the recipe for a perfect storm as American as apple pie.
Jeff Berg
Can Britain go back to coal?
It’s black, dirty and desperately unfashionable, but without it the UK may be heading for winter blackouts. Could coal really be the future of British energy?
The Politics of Consumption
Yes, the presidential race has been ugly. But the accusations, smears and spin of the current campaign, although disgusting, are only reflections of a much larger problem. The plain truth is that we are in the process of destroying American democracy.
Water scarcity: A looming crisis?
As part of Planet Under Pressure, a BBC News Online series looking at some of the biggest environmental problems facing humanity, Alex Kirby explores fears of an impending global water crisis.
BP: We May Invest in Alternative Energy Sources if Profitable
Peter Davies, the vice chairman and chief economist of BP said: “Wind and solar energies are only in the minds of scientists at the moment. They are not in the market now, but they may be in 50 years.”
Australia: High oil price threatens economy
A recurring question has taken on new urgency in recent weeks – how far can oil prices climb before the world’s economies, Australia included, begin to buckle under the stress?
How to Hedge the Crude-Oil and Gas `Energy Tax’
Record-setting natural-gas and oil prices are tag-teaming to create a winter of discontent for most households. Yet you can protect yourself through your investments and home improvements.
IHS Energy’s Report on 10-Year Petroleum Trends — 1994-2003
IHS Energy claim that the current oil ‘demand crunch’ is primarily geopolitical – not geological – in nature, while the long term energy outlook is promising.
Malaysia to reduce dependence on crude oil: PM
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday his government will look into ways to lessen the country’s dependence on crude oil.
OPEC Expects Further Increase in Oil Prices
High oil prices haven’t damped demand or spurred extra production, forcing the world to rely more on OPEC’s oil, the producer group said Monday.
Analyst expects oil may rise to US$75
Crude oil prices, which rose to a record US$55 a barrel in New York on Friday, may increase further and peak at US$75 a barrel, said Bernard Dan, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, the second-biggest US futures market.
Shale’s new hope
Shell is reconsidering decades old technology to attempt to produce liquids from shale oil in the US.
