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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

Green Car Congress

Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). percent of GDP in 2014. Natural gas data from Gazprom). billion respectively).

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Lucid readying Tesla Model Y fighter that will pinch advanced tech from the luxury Air limo

EV Central

Built at the car-maker’s new plant located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it’s thought that Lucid will price its all-new SUV at around $US50,000 ($75,000), suggesting it will be a rival for the more expensive end of the Tesla Model Y line-up. The Lucid Air. But that’s not all that might be coming.

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Is A Second OPEC Cut In The Cards?

Green Car Congress

OPEC’s coordinated effort to curtail global supply has so far managed to put a floor under oil prices, which have been sitting modestly above US$50 since the deal was announced at the end of November last year. Analysts and experts are now mostly predicting that oil prices will remain below US$60 this year. But resurgent U.S.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

Baua Electric

It’s a dramatic reversal from the ebullience of recent years that sent prices soaring and sparked a rush by some of the auto industry’s biggest players to secure future supply. Yet supply charged ahead as demand growth underwhelmed, and the result has been a price freefall. Chemaf Resources Ltd. and General Motors Co.

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