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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

Green Car Congress

Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. They pose an existential threat to the industry and therefore to the Russian economy: The revenues Russia can earn from its crude and natural gas exports face intense pressure. Live by Energy…. The emergence of the U.S.,

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

Green Car Congress

Of the non-Saudi, non-Gulf Arab ally OPEC members, only Libyan per capita resources exceed the average. million barrels per day in 1H 2015, in part because as Russia's economy contracted, reducing domestic crude demand to 3.47 trillion of $3.05 As the following table shows, their advantage is particularly large on a per capita basis.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

Green Car Congress

National oil producers can and are shifting the cost of the lowered prices to other sectors of the economy. for example, has ended fuel subsidies, thereby essentially, increasing its budget revenues, while Saudi Arabia recently floated a $4-billion domestic bond offering to help finance its budget. Daily output from Saudi Arabia (10.5

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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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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CDM Baby, CDM Ruminations on Vegas and NASCAR California Dreamin' ► February (16) Car Sharing and Saving in a Tough Economy Throwing down the gauntlet to Secretary Clinton Weather Does Not Equal Climate The Hub Lab Seeks Revolutionary New Energy Science. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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