Oil bonanza? Maybe … A return to $2/gallon gas? Forget it

For consumers, sentiment about prices generally follows two simple rules: more expensive and hard to get = bad, cheap and abundant = good. In that context, all the new oil "wealth" coming from sources like Canada's oil sands, the US's corn-based biofuels and, potentially, gas- and coal-to-liquid technologies definitely falls under the "bad" column. That's because of…

ByThe Global ViewMay 11, 20120Comments

Energy

Rising oil prices cost importing countries $5.5 billion a day

Oil prices and the broader economy are linked in complex ways, but there's no question the connections are critical. While the investment, banking and mortgage sectors receive the greatest blame for nearly crashing the global economy in 2008, oil prices -- which reached a record high of $146 per barrel in July of that year before…

ByThe Global ViewApril 10, 20120Comments

Energy

Where is oil demand growing the fastest?

Standards of living aren't the only thing rising in so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China): along with a growing middle class, developing economies are also seeing a growing demand for oil. While oil consumption is steady or dropping in many developed nations, it's rising rapidly among non-OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries.…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 27, 20121Comment

Energy

Which countries use the most oil?

Who uses the most oil in the world? In this category, the US does have the right to say, "We're number one." As of 2010, the US used 19.15 million barrels of oil per day -- more than double the figure for the consumer in second place: China, with a daily demand of 9.06 million barrels…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 26, 20120Comments

Energy

Why are oil prices going up?

In the good-versus-evil, broad-brush-strokes world of modern politics, it's always someone's fault when the price of oil -- and, consequently, prices at the pump, grocery store and elsewhere -- goes up. Back in fact-based reality, though, the truth, as always, is far more complicated. So why is West Texas Intermediate crude at a nine-month high of…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 24, 20120Comments

Cloud

Scientists warn: Flat oil production threatens world economy

If you don't care about the environment or climate change, start kicking the oil habit for the sake of the economy. That's the message from two scientists who warn that declining oil supplies and increasing price volatility are posing a growing threat to the global economy, and a more immediate threat than global warming. "Historically, there has…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 31, 20120Comments

Energy

Will oil prices hit record highs – or crash – in 2012?

Will 2012 be the year we see oil prices rise to crushing record highs? Or will the cost of crude collapse as doomsayers' predictions about the death of the euro, the bursting of China's real-estate bubble and other economic calamities come true? We can't tell you. With so many uncertainties and complexities in the oil market,…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 21, 20110Comments

Cities

6 easy ways to start cutting oil consumption now

What is it about oil that makes us so conflicted? Oh yeah ... the love-hate thing. A line from the movie "Fight Club" sums it up: "You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total a..hole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship?" Nowhere…

ByThe Global ViewJune 3, 20110Comments

Energy

How much oil is left?

Greenbang CEO Dan Ilett posed a simple question to our team over the weekend: "Guys -- how much oil is left?" Here's how our subsequent discussion went: Shirley Siluk Gregory, Senior research analyst: That's the trillion-dollar question, isn't it? Here's what the International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook in 2010 said (see attached IEA graph on oil reserves…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 7, 20111Comment

Smart Cities

Gulf reveals 22-mile plume of oil

Reports of the "death" of millions of gallons of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico might be greatly exaggerated, as scientists have found an underwater plume of hydrocarbons that's at least 22 miles long, more than a mile wide and 3,000-plus feet deep. That finding flies in the face of assertions from US federal officials…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 20, 20100Comments

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Oil bonanza? Maybe … A return to $2/gallon gas? Forget it

Rising oil prices cost importing countries $5.5 billion a day

Where is oil demand growing the fastest?

Which countries use the most oil?

Why are oil prices going up?

Scientists warn: Flat oil production threatens world economy

Will oil prices hit record highs – or crash – in 2012?

6 easy ways to start cutting oil consumption now

How much oil is left?

Gulf reveals 22-mile plume of oil

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