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EB slow for a week

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Posting will be light during the next week. EB will be back at full force June 7.

UPDATE (June 2) Sorry for the outages. The tech staff says it’s due to lots of people trying to access Energy Bulletin at once.

Peak Oil will be politicians’ best friend

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I left International Transport Forum at Leipzig with the feeling that the future’s biggest questions, energy and climate, lacked leadership. There is nobody who will stand up and say “I have a dream” but rather it is nightmares that are discussed. Peak Oil will, in future, become the politician’s best friend since Peak Oil will reduce CO2 emissions from oil and become a part of the solution that the politicians cannot agree on… Those that actively accept and respond to the Peak Oil idea will be the winners of the future. (Report from a meeting of European transport ministers)

Speculators – May 31

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Speculation – but not manipulation
Regulators step up probes of trading in oil markets
Commodity policies set for revision
Regulators strengthen oversight of energy markets
Oil traders reduced bets on rising prices as crude hit records
Traders and commodity exchanges fight back

Food crisis – May 31

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Report sees decade of high food prices

More wealth, more meat. How China’s rise spells trouble
China cuts food import tariffs to increase food supplies, cool high inflation
WFP chief calls for lifting of food export curbs