It wasn’t sheer coincidence that last year marked two pivotal events in the world’s vehicle industry. In 2009, China became the largest car market in the world, while in the same year there were four million fewer vehicles on the road in the United States. In a world where the supply of economically viable oil [...]

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It was only two years ago that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia cautioned consumers that, without $75-per-barrel oil, there was no incentive for his kingdom to bring on new production. Today, apparently, even that price no longer works. Recently, the King announced that he has ordered a halt to all further underground oil exploration, arguing [...]

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It’s not its carbon trail that stands in the way of the Alberta tar sands’ picking up the supply ball dropped by deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. After all, tar sands fuel is no dirtier than coal, and Americans haven’t let that fossil fuel’s carbon trail stand in the way of its generating [...]

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The G8: The World Economy’s Biggest Brake

Posted by Jeff Rubin on July 7th, 2010 under SmallerWorldTags: , , ,  • View Comments

If it’s true that the economies of the EU and US are headed for a double dip, what will put them into a second recession is exactly what got them out of the last one.
Only a year ago, G8 leaders were congratulating themselves as their coordinated stimulus packages jointly lifted their economies out of the [...]

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Whether Hurricane Alex hits the Gulf oil spill or not, it’s only a matter of time before one will. Alex is, after all, only the first storm in a year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting will be an abnormally active one for hurricanes.
In case you’d forgotten, blow-outs of deep-water wells aren’t [...]

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