I don’t usually write on these matters, but this issue deserves all the attention it can garner, including the very modest contribution I can make here.
Bravo to the New York Times for giving this subject the attention it deserves. In the Times’ business section today, David Carr rounds up the situation in Cook County, Illinois, [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
In going after student journalists, Chicago state’s attorney behaves like a typical Chicago politician: arrogant, indignant and childish.
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China’s economy heating up, world will consume more oil in 2010 than previously thought.
China will clearly be driving demand in all things energy within a decade, if they aren’t already. They’ll also be driving nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, too, unfortunately.
OPEC says world to drink more oil than expected next year.
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New report from UK think tank says oil production likely to peak before 2020.
Moreover, the report from the UK Energy Research Centre says that maintaining global production at today’s level will require that we find the equivalent of a Saudi Arabia every three years. That’s more dire a prognosis than that of the International Energy Agency, which said in July that we need to find three Saudi [...]
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Unemployment bumped to 10.2% today, but there is hope…
Oil dropped more than $2 today on the fears that, if people can’t work, they can’t buy gasoline. Makes sense.
But some companies out there think we’re poised for a U-shaped turnaround. They’ve gone ahead and started bringing people back right now, when everybody else is cowering under a bush. Good [...]
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Financial Times: The Oil Crunch Approaches
The Financial Times, bless them, ran a thick section of stories focused on energy yesterday. Included was a glossy pull-out with a coterie of pieces that went from green energy in China (soon they’ll make more than anybody) to an interview with Denmark’s energy minister to different ways to combat climate change. One [...]
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