When Is Cheaper Oil Bad?Talk about a reversal of fortunes. A mere two months since oil was flirting with $150 per barrel, OPEC is considering production cuts to defend a $100 price floor and reputable journals are suggesting that $80 could soon be in... Read more Oil | | Septemberonday, 8 September 2008 |
The World Spends $300 Billion Subsidizing Fossil FuelsThe Daily Green has a look at taxpayer handouts to the fossil fuel industry - The World Spends $300 Billion Subsidizing Fossil Fuels - "The Cost of Eliminating Fossil Fuels? Maybe No More than the Cost of Burning Them". This... Read more Oil | | Thursday, 4 September 2008 |
Turning Black into GreenFor too much of the lengthy debate over expanded access to oil & gas resources, participants on both sides have sought to pit renewable energy against conventional energy. There is nothing at all mutually-exclusive in our need to increase US... Read more Oil | | Friday, 5 September 2008 |
China Slowing Down, Oil Price FallingMish Shedlock points to a Bloomberg article reporting that the Chinese manufacturing sector may actually be contracting - China"s Manufacturing Contracts for Second Month. Mish notes that this may be just as much a factor in the falling oil price... Read more Oil | | Wednesday, 3 September 2008 |
Iceland Flirts With the Dark Side Tyler at Clean Break reports that clean energy poster-child Iceland is going to allow exploratory oil drilling in the country - Iceland sends mixed signals, goes to the dark side.Okay, now I’m discouraged. If there was one place on the... Read more Oil | | Thursday, 4 September 2008 |
Checking the BaselineTo the relief of the residents of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast, Hurricane Gustav has been much less destructive than Katrina. Although the region"s oil & gas infrastructure appears largely intact, it"s a bit too soon to assess... Read more Oil | | TUSEDAY, 2 September 2008 |
Leaving fossil fuels in the ground vs. using them all up now I wrote a think piece for Worldchanging playing off one of the basic arguments against climate mitigation (we"ll be richer in the future and more capable of dealing with any effects) with the idea of leaving fossil fuels in the... Read more Oil | | Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
Second Anniversary MessageI began my first anniversary message with a rejection of the notion that “America is Addicted to Oil”. Today I’m proud to be among a growing number of people who are actually doing something about it. We have different strategies,... Read more Oil | | Saturday, 31 May 2008 |
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