Blaming speculators – May 25
Are speculators fueling oil run-up?
Speculators draw the heat
Controversial theory: traders to blame
Oil insiders say investors driving up prices
Oil trade’s winners now reap the wrath
Oil
Speculation – May 25
Gambling with the futures (primer)
James D. Hamilton on oil speculation
Ban on futures trading: Anti-farmer, not anti-inflation
Peak oil – May 25
Pickens: Oil production is reaching its peak
IEA inquiry to examine ‘narrow margin’ in 2012
50 MPs sign peak oil Commons motion
Above ground factors: The propaganda tool of choice
Stating that above-ground factors are limiting oil supply is not merely an observation. Rather, it is part of a propaganda strategy supporting a policy agenda which almost certainly reflects the views of CERA’s clients, many of whom are major oil producers.
“Seven Sisters” have become “Five Little Brothers”
For many it comes as a shock that Big Oil has transformed into the ”five little brothers”. Today, the world’s seven largest oil companies are completely outside the control of the U.S. Senate.
Indonesia hikes fuel prices – May 25
Fuel prices rise nearly 30 percent
Angry protests
Cash to the poor to soften the blow
Oil producers – May 25
Non-OPEC oil output growth slows to a trickle
Pemex: April oil output drop biggest in 12 years
Mexican oil production falls 9% in first 4 months of year
Middle East: would you supply oil resources if you were in their place?
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?
Peak oil – May 24
Svenska Dagbladet: Oil up on reduced prognoses
Oil Search’s Peter Botton on PO and oil prices
Independent: World about to be running on empty?
Peak oil hits new heights and the view is not pretty
Prices & supplies – May 24
Why oil prices have hit record highs
OPEC Sec-gen not worried by aging oil fields
NYT:
Economic toll mounts from oil prices
Where the oil money goes
Oilwatch Monthly – May 2008
Latin America – May 24
Mexico’s battle over oil
Export Land Model in Mexico
Limits of economic growth in Latin America
Blaming oil companies – May 24
The same old song on high gas prices
Greg Palast: Obama’s secret war profiteering tax
