Sentences with phrase «true price of oil»

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«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true societal costs (including global warming impacts, health cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental costs).

The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

That's especially true if the technique involves predicting the future, or trying to speculate on the price movements of volatile commodities like oil.

It is true that in January 2000 gold was hovering around $ 280 an ounce and oil was averaging $ 11 dollars a barrel, and since then the price of gold has increased by five times, and oil by eight times.

It's certainly true that perhaps 70 % of the dispersion of returns over a 5 - to - 10 year period are driven by macro-economic factors (Putin invades - > the EU sanctions - > economies falter - > the price of oil drops - > interest rates fall) but that fact is not useful because such events are unforecastable and their macro-level impacts are incalculably complex (try «what effect will European reaction to Putin's missile transfer offer have on shadow interest rates in China?»).

That's especially true of oil prices.

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

And all of these options would spread even more rapidly if we stopped subsidizing Big Oil and Coal and put a price on carbon that reflected the true cost of fossil energy — either through the much - maligned cap - and - trade approach, or through a revenue - neutral tax swap.

Almost every idea that might bring us a better future would be made much easier if the cost of fossil fuel was higher — if there was some kind of a tax on carbon emissions that made the price of coal and oil and gas reflect its true environmental cost.»

True, we're running out of cheap oil, and higher prices mean that it is now easier for clean technology to undercut, and eventually replace, oil.

This is particularly true in light of the recent and largely unforeseen, collapse in the price of crude oil, which has had a massive impact in a largely oil - dependent country like Nigeria, such that clients are now focusing a great deal on insolvency, restructuring, prepayment facilities, derivatives and hedging instruments and issues.

This is especially true in a changing market when local prices either take off dramatically or plunge precipitously, like during the Texas oil bust of the 1980s.