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CGI 2011 – Developing Green Technology

…on renewable oil: biomass conversion, plant sugars, photosynthesis and microalgae to convert sugar to oil. Does not require changes in current processing system; renewable oil is fungible with the dinosaur-based…

More drilling analysis – Menzie Chinn

Lifted from Econbrowser by Menzie Chinn Drilling Offshore to Affect World Oil Prices… and Other Tales from the Iraq-Pakistan Border Various individuals have argued for drilling in the Outer Continental…

Oil Price

…suppliers of oil, US imports represent US oil demand. This chart clearly shows that the run up in oil prices to $100 had little or nothing to do with demand…

Oil and Interest Rates

…the high price of oil. In fact, oil prices and long-term interest rates do indeed seem to be moving in opposite directions lately. The chart below shows both series since…

Oil Prices

…source of oil has emerged from fracking in North Dakota and other interior locations. The problem was that over the years pipelines and other supply chains for oil had been…