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- Angola beats Nigeria
No, I’m not talking about the Olympics. Angola recently beat out Nigeria to become Africa’s largest oil producer, exceeding its 1.9 million barrel a day OPEC quota.
Angola shows that, while mega producers such as Saudi Arabia cannot meet the expectations of a decade ago, a number of other potential producers such as Angola, Chad, [...]
- Already adapting to the post-oil future
In the novel World Made By Hand, authour James Howard Kunstler (interviewed here by Stephen Colbert) argues that American daily life will change drastically when the oil runs out. He sees no future for the city infrastructure that has grown up around the popularization of cars (ie. suburbs), and is pessimistic about the industrial economic [...]
- What Energy Dependence???
With the current primaries and upcoming presidential election, on top of rising oil prices, one favorite phrase of candidates and media outlets is energy dependence and energy independence. Yet, outside of buzz words, how dependent is the US on foreign producers? In fact, since energy independence is secret code for independent of the Middle East, [...]
- “New Great Game”? Says Who?
I was just checking out the wikipedia article for the “Great Game“, a phrase coined ala-”World War II” to describe a series of political and military events and which all the namesakes to this blog were contributors. In the article, I saw this sub-section:
New Great Game
Main article: New Great GameWith the end of the [...]
- Germany’s Oil Imports
With so much talk about energy and so much focus on the US, here’s a short overview of the situation in Germany. Being at the forefront of alternative energy and in fact the largest producer and user of it, does not mean Germany isn’t largely dependent on oil. About 12% of its overall needs comes [...]
- 1973 and 2001
On October 17, 1973, members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries chose to embargo the United States, Western Europe and Japan for their support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Both the United States and Japan responded by looking into alternative energy sources and improving energy efficiency. However, while Americans quickly forgot the [...]
- Foreign oil and defence policy in Japan
Duck of Minerva team-member Bill Petti of asked me about my thesis recently. I directed him to an initial stab I made in a post on Japanese dependency on foreign oil. I have since gone through the proposal stages and pared down the topic to something doable. It is widely recognized that Japanese foreign/defence policy [...]
- Another Canal?
Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbaev, recently made president for life, proposed a new canal linking the Caspian with the Black Sea. Currently, goods flow through the Volga-Don shipping canal, which links the Volga to the Don. It runs from near Astrakhan, Russia on the northwestern shore of the Caspian to Rostov on the Sea of Azov. Claiming [...]
- The Bleak Future of Energy Consumption
According to the Economist, America’s Energy Information Administration released its annual International Energy Outlook and forecast that the world’s consumption of energy would increase by a whopping 57% between 2004 and 2030.
And the developed world’s days of taking heat for being such a big consumer of energy are on the way out—the carbon emissions of [...]
