…— among signs of returning prosperity. This, in turn, has generated a rising demand for oil, steel, copper, and other primary materials. Take oil. In the United States, oil consumption…
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oil. Quoting unnamed Iraqi Oil Ministry bureaucrats, oil company officials, and an anonymous American diplomat, Andrew Kramer of the Times wrote: “Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP… along with Chevron…
oil eventually ran dry. President Déby undertook to pass an oil-revenue management law through Chad’s legislative body. Oversight committees were appointed and reports scheduled. As the oil began to flow…
…challenge the planet’s natural resource limits. As with food, the rising cost of oil is a product of growing demand, insufficient supplies, and speculative investments. According to the most recent…
…prefer “oil sands.”) Unlike oil, bitumen does not flow. Gouged and steamed out from under the forest, it is wrenched from the soil, barreled, and then refined into synthetic crude…
…defenders of the forest.” But his words seemed more like wishful thinking. The Waorani of Dicaro and Yarentaro live on an oil road, and many work for the oil company….
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…accuse the government of hoarding oil revenues while returning nothing but abuse, allowing the Niger Delta to deteriorate from the attendant eco-hazards of oil extraction. The federal government regards the…
…its dependence on foreign oil imports. Between 1973 and 2007, oil imports have risen from 36 percent of energy consumed in the U.S. to 66 percent. Oil Shock: Scenario 2025…
…oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil. After World War…
By **Medea Benjamin** The Tea Party wants small government, right? Actually, it’s not so simple. In fact, there is an ideological schism within the Tea Party that you could drive…
…the IEO predicts a sharp drop in projected future world oil output (compared to previous expectations) and a corresponding increase in reliance on what are called “unconventional fuels” — oil…
One Saturday in August 1962, perched high in a maple tree in our backyard, I handed my father a nail. We were building a tree house. I was twelve. My…
…words, Libya is both sitting on gobs of oil and perfectly, strategically located for military bases to protect that oil and the oil of nearby countries, including Saudi Arabia, whose…
…resources, Venezuela and Nigeria stand out as major oil producers with a history of civil strife. 2144 in 3-D Imagine them, then, on a future, energy-starved planet. In fact, I…
eventual oil scarcity and global climate change. Most energy analysts expect conventional oil output—that is, liquid oil derived from fields on land and in shallow coastal waters—to reach a production…
…hopes and dreams. One side of my tree is a cedar tree and the other is the snowball tree. My mother washed cedar boughs in the river and hung them…
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that does nothing to stem the rising price of oil. You want to hold oil prices down? In the short term, strengthen the dollar. Part of the reason oil prices…
curtail future contracts with the oil giant. Talking Tough In recent weeks, against a news backdrop of oil-soaked pelicans, President Obama has been talking tough. “We’ve ordered BP to pay…
ecocide that Saro-Wiwa protested, and Camp reasserted, recalls the dripping oil in Ehikhamenor’s installation, spilling into a tub—oil spillage that results in monumental hazard to the environment, devastating the lives…
…are on the list, beaten down by Wall Street hucksters promising them never-ending growth in home prices. People in California, Nevada and Florida, fueled by irrational exuberance, got badly “over-leveraged,”…
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