Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance
Mar 11, 2016 The oil attrition wars may not lead us into a future of North American triumphalism or even to a more modest Saudi version of the same but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.
We Shouldn’t Take Their Oil
Jan 14, 2016 Donald Trump’s slippery slogan is delusional.
Political Turmoil in a Time of Low Energy Prices
Jan 13, 2016 The current rout in oil prices threatens a profound shift in the geopolitical fortunes of major energy-producing countries. Many are already experiencing economic and political turmoil, and the longer low prices persist, the more devastating the consequences are likely to be.
For Paris: On Russian Missiles Hitting Syria as Islamic State Oil Facilities Are Targeted (Video)
Nov 22, 2015 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian airstrikes on the eastern province of Deir al-Zor killed 36 on Friday -- a week after the Paris attacks claimed by Islamic State. But bombing alone will not win the war with the militant group.
Obama Drills a Hole in His Climate Policy
May 20, 2015 Here are two facts that cannot be reconciled: The planet has experienced the warmest January-through-March on record, and the Obama administration has authorized massive new oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
To Drill or Not to Drill — That Is the Question
Mar 4, 2015 Major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer. In the long term, that could spell doom for one of the last great relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet.
Tankers
Feb 27, 2015
Low Oil Prices Threaten U.S. Fracking Industry
Feb 8, 2015 Some North Dakota companies have shut down 40 percent of their operations as plummeting oil prices render the industry far less viable than during the boom of the past five years.
Drilling
Jan 30, 2015
New Saudi King to Obama: Lower-Price Oil Policy Won’t Change
Jan 28, 2015 That Saudi Arabia is treated with kid gloves only has one explanation: It pumps over 10 percent of the petroleum produced daily in the world.
