For consumers, sentiment about prices generally follows two simple rules: more expensive and hard to get = bad, cheap and abundant = good. In that context, all the new oil “wealth” coming from sources like Canada’s oil sands, the US’s [...]
Oil prices and the broader economy are linked in complex ways, but there’s no question the connections are critical. While the investment, banking and mortgage sectors receive the greatest blame for nearly crashing the global economy in 2008, oil prices [...]
Standards of living aren’t the only thing rising in so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China): along with a growing middle class, developing economies are also seeing a growing demand for oil. While oil consumption is steady or dropping [...]
Who uses the most oil in the world? In this category, the US does have the right to say, “We’re number one.” As of 2010, the US used 19.15 million barrels of oil per day — more than double the [...]
In the good-versus-evil, broad-brush-strokes world of modern politics, it’s always someone’s fault when the price of oil — and, consequently, prices at the pump, grocery store and elsewhere — goes up. Back in fact-based reality, though, the truth, as always, [...]
If you don’t care about the environment or climate change, start kicking the oil habit for the sake of the economy. That’s the message from two scientists who warn that declining oil supplies and increasing price volatility are posing a [...]
Will 2012 be the year we see oil prices rise to crushing record highs? Or will the cost of crude collapse as doomsayers’ predictions about the death of the euro, the bursting of China’s real-estate bubble and other economic calamities [...]
What is it about oil that makes us so conflicted? Oh yeah … the love-hate thing. A line from the movie “Fight Club” sums it up: “You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you [...]
Greenbang CEO Dan Ilett posed a simple question to our team over the weekend: “Guys — how much oil is left?” Here’s how our subsequent discussion went: Shirley Siluk Gregory, Senior research analyst: That’s the trillion-dollar question, isn’t it? Here’s [...]
Reports of the “death” of millions of gallons of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico might be greatly exaggerated, as scientists have found an underwater plume of hydrocarbons that’s at least 22 miles long, more than a mile wide [...]
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