Kicking the Big-Car Habit
The experts are calling for energy reforms. Why aren’t the politicians?
Fossil Fuels
Winning the oil endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence, and is applicable worldwide. There are many analyses of the oil problem; This synthesis is the first roadmap of the oil solution — one led by business for profit.
Arguments erupt over petroleum capacity
THE spike in oil prices in recent months is stoking heated arguments between market players, who blame each other for the lack of production capacity that has been exposed by strong global demand.
India steps up quest for energy supplies
High prices are unlikely to erode India’s booming demand for oil and the country has stepped up negotiations with producer nations to secure its energy supplies, said oil minister Mani Shankar Aiyar.
West Africa, a big exporter to the U.S., demonstrates the ‘paradox of plenty’
While sought-after commodities like oil can generate immense revenues for an exporting nation, they can also end up inflicting great damage on its economy and political culture.
Crude dudes
Ties together the cash-rich oil multinationals, US VP Cheney’s Energy Task Force, and the drive to privatise Middle East oil reserves via a war for ‘freedom and democracy’.
Thoughts on the Oil Bubble
No matter when that peak occurs, though, the indisputable fact is that a few generations of humans—particularly we Americans—will have squandered a geological resource that took several hundred million years to accumulate.
YUKOS raises Yugansk reserves estimate fivefold
Russian oil major YUKOS, fighting to prevent a cheap fire sale of assets in a tax dispute with the state, boosted oil-reserve estimates of its core Yugansk unit fivefold today.
Exxon calls for off-limits oil to sate demand
Oil producers’ struggle to keep up with rampant global demand growth will only be won with access to oilfields now off-limits, Exxon Mobil chief executive Lee Raymond said yesterday.
Time to pump cash in, not out
IF THEY sound worried, it is because they are desperate. The multinational oil companies are rolling in cash but they have little to spend it on.
High oil prices expected to be the norm
The world of crude has flipped upside down, with high prices becoming the norm, says the president of Devon Energy Corp., the largest U.S. oil and gas independent.
India asks OPEC for uniform pricing policy
India Friday urged the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to adopt a uniform pricing policy for all buyers and not charge a premium from developing countries in Asia.
