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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

Green Car Congress

Venezuela, an OPEC member, has even proposed an emergency summit meeting. This apparent bravado notwithstanding, the two countries’ entry into the low-price Crudedome is ravaging their economies. Their suffering has led some to call for a change in strategy to “balance” the market and boost prices. percent year-over-year, up from 2.3

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. And in any case, an inflexible approach to regulation has caused the cost of new nuclear to balloon – despite it being perhaps the most obvious solution to our long-term energy needs.

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Electric cars to account for 64 per cent of car sales by 2030

Green Cars News

It is the first study to forecast the adoption rates of electric vehicles with pay-per-mile service contracts that finance the cost of the battery. Pay-per-mile service contracts eliminate the additional upfront costs traditionally associated with electric cars. light-vehicle fleet by 2030. dependence on foreign oil an achievable goal.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. So as incomes rise—especially in the emerging economies—the size of the global car fleet will inevitably rise in the long term.

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