Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Thailand’s foreign minister has called for Asian governments to develop long-term plans to ease energy shortages. Rapidly increasing demand for energy, driven largely by China’s booming economy, has driven prices up, and caused anxiety in a region whose own oil reserves are dwindling.
Politicians seeking public office in the United States can’t disclose the true cost of gasoline because Americans wouldn’t accept it.
A federal advisory panel will assess U.S. oil refining capacity and crude oil stocks to see if steps can be taken to boost energy supplies, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Tuesday.
After reining in construction costs, Syncrude Canada vowed Monday to take control of another runaway expense — natural gas.
Senior Australian intelligence analyst turned whistleblower, Andrew Wilkie suggests that there might be an Iraq-illegal war equivalent of the Watergate tapes: intelligence of US government preparation for war gathered by Australian, British and Canadian intelligence agencies.
Mike Ruppert’s critical report from the 2004 Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas conference.
Although gas prices are on the rise Americans still love their big cars.
Eight British military personnel were today arrested by Iran after it discovered three naval vessels in its territorial waters, according to reports.
For years the superpower politics of the cold war blocked efforts to end global poverty. Today it is the hot war of energy economics and global warming that present an impossible obstacle. They also threaten something far worse – a great reversal of human progress.
Shell Oil Co. plans to put the brakes on production at its Bakersfield refinery in July and August, potentially shorting California’s fuel supplies during the summertime driving season, according to internal Shell documents.
BP PLC tried recently to quell renewed concerns by some industry observers that world oil reserves are running out sooner than expected.
Despite the war, the Sudanese economy has grown solidly, helped by rising oil exports which last year were about 300,000 barrels a day, and should reach 600,000 barrels per day next year.
