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If you haven’t yet heard of Anonymous, the amorphous and mysterious network of “hacktivists” which periodically pop their heads up to make normal people’s lives more difficult, you should ...
Posted Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 2:43 pm | Filed in: Oil, Oil Dependence, OPEC
In today’s Medium Term Oil Market Report, using stronger language than usual, the IEA said that it anticipates a “supply shock,” driven in large part by surging North American production and the light tight oil (LTO) boom. ...
Posted Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 7:37 am | Filed in: Foreign Policy, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Over the weekend, an OpEd published in Bloomberg boldly proclaimed, “The Oil and Gold Booms are Over.” Written mostly from a finance perspective, the article focuses on the assertion that commodity prices follow predictable bo...
Posted Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 2:18 pm | Filed in: National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
In global energy markets, power ebbs and flows. There are discoveries of new fields, which can make or break a nation’s role in the energy landscape. There are technological breakthroughs which unlock vast resources, previously ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 at 3:30 pm | Filed in: Oil, Oil Prices, Oil Production, OPEC
The cover story of this month’s Atlantic is pleasantly attention grabbing. We will never run out of oil. It’s no secret that, from an economics argument, this is true. As author Charles Mann summarizes, “Natural resource...
Posted Monday, April 29th, 2013 at 3:00 pm | Filed in: Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence
Yesterday, FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith, along with two oil market economists—Andrew Morris of the University of Alabama, and James Smith of Southern Methodist University— participated in a panel discussion on a new paper,...
Posted Friday, April 26th, 2013 at 9:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electricity, Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
When even Goldman Sachs has stopped betting on high crude oil prices, you know something is up. Yesterday, for the first time in nine months, Brent crude oil dropped below $100/bbl, and has hovered there for most of today, while W...
Posted Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at 6:56 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Production
Yesterday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its oil market report, which downwardly revised oil demand forecasts for the third consecutive month. This outlook is shared by the monthly oil market report released on We...
Posted Friday, April 12th, 2013 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Oil, Oil Prices, Oil Production
By now, the sea change which has occurred thanks to the domestic energy boom, driven by a seemingly overnight revolution in “unconventional” extraction technology, is old news, and its staggering impact is already here. Just c...
Posted Friday, April 5th, 2013 at 11:36 am | Filed in: Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
It’s no secret that petroleum is what powers our mobility, and without it our transportation system would grind to a halt. But what happens when the methods of moving oil fail us? Within the past week we have seen two separate, ...
Posted Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 at 3:27 pm | Filed in: Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Production
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