G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
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High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Australia’s New Grain Deliveries Plunge Due to Drought
Another sign of climate change induced stress, this one from Australia.
Read more...Something Russia and EU Appear to Agree on – the Euro
The very rational case for Russia and the EU to trade oil in euros.
Read more...The Regulation That Could Push Oil To $200
A measure to clean up maritime fuel oil could cause havoc for oil prices generally.
Read more...Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA
Tariffs misfire yet again.
Read more...More US and China Jousting Over South China Sea
The US-China conflict over the South China Sea keeps getting hotter.
Read more...Wall Street Journal: Why Bashing Chinese Steel Dumping Results in Bashing Allies
Why combatting Chinese steel dumping is harder than it seems.
Read more...Cryptocurrencies as Prosecution Futures: Judge Rules Manipulators Can Go to Jail
The Wild West of cryptocurrencies just got a little less fun.
Read more...Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: How WTO Retaliation Typically Works
A review of some of the permitted counter-moves under WTO rules if Trump imposes tariffs.
Read more...Is The Oil Glut Set To Return?
EA gives a downbeat forecast for oil prices in 2018.
Read more...The Shipping Industry Needs to Deliver Cleaner Cargo Ships, or We’re All Sunk
Delivering on demand for lower-emissions vessels could be the industry’s most arduous journey of all.
Read more...Hurricane Harvey Throws Global Oil Markets Into Chaos
By Nick Cunningham, a Vermont-based writer on energy and environmental issues. You can follow him on Twitter: @nickcunningham1. Originally published at OilPrice The most powerful Hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has devastated much of the coast, and the historic flooding is now causing havoc in the energy markets. The rain is […]
Read more...The Latest Red Flag For U.S. Shale
More bad news for the shale gas industry.
Read more...The Two Capitalisms: Electric Batteries as a Case Study in US Magical Thinking vs. Chinese Vertical Integration
Electric vehicle batteries illustrate how the Chinese use control of raw materials and end markets to built vertically integrated industries.
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