World Energy
Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 6 - July 2008 |
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Congressional hearings on oil prices: They’re dramatic,
bombastic and headline-grabbing … while achieving absolutely
nothing … |
World Energy
Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 5 - June 2008 |
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The global warming debate has at last been settled … not
by scientists, of course, but by celebrities, TV anchors and
newspaper writers. |
World Energy
Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 4 - May 2008 |
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In spite of economic consequences we are moving rapidly toward
the implementation of a cap-and-trade system. Members of Congress
and each of the presidential candidates endorse the plan. Meet
Hillbamacain. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 4, Number 3 - April 2008 |
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World Energy
Monthly Review
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 2008 |
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In the midst of the Great Depression,
Herbert Hoover campaigned for president with his vision of the
American Dream: a car in every garage and a chicken in every
pot. And, it went without saying, a comfortable house in which
to store them. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 4, Number 1 - Jan/Feb 2008 |
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 11 - December 2007 |
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When a cargo ship spills its fuel in San Francisco,
the media has a field day covering the wrong story. Meanwhile,
a real issue halfway around the world goes ignored. |
World
Energy Monthly Review
Volume 3, Number 10 - November 2007
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We have just one year left to figure out which presidential
candidate has a true grasp of energy issues. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 9 - October 2007 |
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When the words "public relations" are often followed
by "disaster," you know your industry has an image
problem. We made this mess; now let's clean it up.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 8 - September 2007
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While the Dow makes roller-coaster headlines, the smart money
remains on energy. Now, if only investors would listen.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 7 - August 2007
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El Presidente is playing hardball, dictating a nationalization
plan that's destined to work against his country's interests.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 6 - July 2007
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Has someone passed a law requiring politicians to harp on inefficient
ethanol at the expense of more abundant and accessible fuel alternatives?
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 5 - June 2007 |
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As the halls of Congress resonate with cries against price-gouging,
the harder truth is that high gas prices appear to be here to
stay. Anyone up for a real solution?
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 4 - May 2007 |
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 3 - April 2007 |
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Picking up his Academy Award in February for An
Inconvenient Truth, a smiling, joking Al Gore was in his element - giving
climate-change testimony, as it were, before a cheering crowd
of California partisans. A month later, testifying before the
House and the Senate on climate change, his reception was a
bit cooler. Oh, well … that's
showbiz. One supposes any publicity is good publicity.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 2 - March 2007 |
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When George W. Bush took office in 2001, he declared that the
Kyoto Protocol was bad for America and that we needed to pursue
our own course. Over the next few years, many in the scientific
community debated the effects of humanity on global warming,
and for much of the Bush administration, there was no climate-change
problem - at least, not in the opinion of the White House,
which avoided discussion on the subject.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 3, Number 1 - Jan/Feb 2007 |
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The United States imported more than 3.69 billion barrels in
2005, and a lot of that came from hostile nations. Why are
we still feeding Chávez, Ahmadinejad and their cronies? We have the resources,
we have the brainpower and heaven knows we have the reason to develop
alternatives. What we need is the policy and the leadership to
see it through.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 12 - December 2006 |
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Continental went from worst to first when the airline decided
to put the focus on their people's progress.
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World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 11 - November 2006 |
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When your international oil cartel holds an emergency
session, can the news possibly bode well for your profits? The
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) took
a hasty meeting in Doha, Qatar, on October 19, with just one
big agenda item: stemming the fall of profits caused by a market
glut of oil. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 10 - October 2006 |
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"Just in the event you do not know," writes a reporter
for the Africa News, "hostage-taking is fast becoming a lucrative
business enterprise in the Niger Delta." Nigeria is the
African continent's most populous nation and, thanks to the oil-rich
Niger Delta, one of its potentially most profitable nations. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 9 - September 2006 |
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"When
trust is destroyed, the result is an uncertain world where the
future is not just unknowable but frightening, and where people
cling to what they have for fear that any change will be for
the worse."
- Lord Browne of Madingley, group chief executive of BP, writing
in World Energy magazine, 2003... |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 8 - August 2006 |
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As we reported in "Mexico: An Ally in the Balance" (March
2006), in an ever-widening desert of Latin American left-leaning
tendencies - culminating in the rise of nationalistic oil companies
in Venezuela and Bolivia - Mexico has remained an oasis of capitalistic
ideals as well as one of the staunchest allies of the United States.
This seems unexpected for a country with a 100 percent state-owned
oil industry and no ability for outside investment in those resources. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 7 - July 2006 |
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"Oil prices jump amid fears about …" You can finish
that headline with any number of options, from Iran to Venezuela.
Geopolitical jitters and the ever-growing competition for crude
are driving up wholesale prices. But why does it appear that the "fear
factor" headlines increasingly seem to pop up when the per-barrel
price dips under $70? |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 6 - June 2006 |
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A
decidedly un-free market is the worrisome result of a growing
trend toward nationalized oil companies. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 5 - May 2006 |
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We compare the outcry greeting Lee's headline-grabbing pension
check to the facts behind that big number. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 4 - April 2006 |
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Oil companies
have been accused of gouging, but guess who's really the gouger
and who's the gougee? |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 3 - March 2006 |
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While we were busy in the Middle East, Latin America
turned left. Will Mexico follow this dangerous trend? |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 2, Number 1 - January 2006 |
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It's not just Olde England worried
about keeping warm.
New England's in a similar bind. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 1, Number 12 - December 2005 |
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Let's just say nobody was singing "kumbayah" when
five energy CEOs met a panel of senators on Capitol Hill. |
World Energy Monthly
Review
Volume 1, Number 11 - November 2005 |
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No longer the fuming fuel of school buses, improved diesel is
ready to impress. So why aren't we paying attention?
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