Prices – May 25
This is only round one
Oil economist: Iraq war trebled oil costs
$100-plus oil as China motors ahead
Dec ’08 crude tells the tale of oil’s surge
James Hamilton: Understanding crude oil prices
Whither the price of oil?
Geopolitics & Military
Blaming oil companies – May 24
The same old song on high gas prices
Greg Palast: Obama’s secret war profiteering tax
Oil producers – May 23
The Saudis vote for Obama (by saying ‘no’ to Bush)
Growing demand in producing countries pushes up price
Indonesia: Thousands protest fuel price plan
Indonesia: Oil firms short on output targets
U.S. & Canada – May 23
Reps. Young and Bartlett: The American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act
Thomas L. Friedman: Imbalances of power
America’s oil crisis demands a leader like Churchill
Canada as an energy superpower
Gazprom to ship Shtokman gas to Rabaska LNG terminal
Peak Oil – May 21
U.S. military launches alternate-fuel push (some officers embrace PO planning)
Hirsch on CNBC: PO problem ‘as massive as one can possibly imagine’
Defying the experts
Three raging bulls as oil barrels higher
The Sigmoid Fraud
Blaming OPEC – May 21
House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices
OPEC to blame for high oil prices?
Fuelling Brown’s desperate attack on OPEC
Prices & supplies – May 21
Supply worries lift crude to yet another new high
Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world (??)
Kazakhstan bans export of oil products amid soaring fuel costs
Water: world crisis
“Water will be the oil of the 21st century.”
(Mammoth collection of links and excerpts).
Energy producers – May 20
Bush to Arab nations: You’re running out of oil
Russian energy chief urges gas export rethink
Saudi Arabia: The king versus the radicals
Prices & supplies – May 20
Oil rises on speculation Saudi supply increase won’t cut prices
UK’s Brown calls for end to the power of Opec
Not enough oil is lament of BP, Exxon
Supplies & prices – May 18
Saudis protect own interests in oil production
Goldman sees oil averaging $141 in 2nd half
Want cheaper gas and oil? End the damned wars!
Stop me before I fill up again!
It is a supreme irony that a wealthy Bedouin should be playing the role of a tough-love drug counselor to the world’s oil-addicted consumers even as he continues to be the globe’s biggest pusher
