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Will Oil Hit $300 A Barrel in 2010 Due To Mid-East Tensions?
03 Jan 2010 at 17:20
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There have been growing tensions between Iran and many other countries in the region. Although the media has been covering them, I do not think the media realizes the severity of these recent events.
Shale Gas and Climate Change
In Wednesday’s posting on the likely consequences of the latest version of greenhouse gas (GHG) cap & trade legislation, I hinted at an important option for electricity suppliers to reduce their emissions promptly. Today I’d like to elaborate on it. Although
Peak Oil Should Still Worry You: The Hot Air in New Natural Gas Estimates
In light of this, recently revised estimates of Natural Gas reserves in North America should be taken with a grain of salt even thought they have some people calling the United States the Saudi Arabia of natural Gas. These excited comparisons are based on new techniques that allow natural gas to be extracted directly from Shale formations. Geologists have always known that natural gas exists in shale formations. (You can crack a chunk of shale and hold a match up to it and momentarily get a flame.)
Cutting Emissions Through Natural Gas
A few weeks ago, BP reiterated that idea. Addressing a Financial Times’ energy conference, Lamar Mckay, president of BP Americas said, “Natural gas has the greatest potential to provide the largest carbon reductions at the lowest cost using technology that is available today.”
Energy: China turns tables on U.S.
Our domestic markets are exactly the opposite of the Chinese. Americans are strapped with debt, paralyzed and frozen in place. We had to borrow more money in order to keep our entire economic system from collapsing.
US seeks independence with natural gas
“We have to stop looking at the short term. Sure we can find enough fuel for the next two years, five years, 10 years, but what happens at that point when we haven’t built up our renewable or alternative energy technologies?” she asks.
Gas Exporters to Discuss Secretary General Choice at Doha Meet
Russia, Iran and Qatar, holders of more than half of the world’s natural gas reserves, will meet on June 30 at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the gas market and the appointment of a secretary general, a Qatar Petroleum official said.
T. Boone Pickens: Break Our Foreign Oil Addiction With Natural Gas
But we are in the classic “chicken and egg” situation: Manufacturers don’t want to build natural gas vehicles because they aren’t certain there will be a market for them. Consumers (companies and individuals) can’t buy such vehicles because the manufacturers won’t build them.
