The quote from Mitt Romney's (allegedly «ghostwritten») book points to the conclusion that the USA should
do more oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill») including shale deposits, to get more «energy independent» (combined, of course, with supporting basic research for new energy technologies).
We do more oil changes than just about any other repair or service.
Should have
done some more oil pulling / kale eating / other sanctimony - inducing practice!
Not exact matches
But the fact that the brightest minds in the
oil business must concede they don't know whether the inflection point will come in the 2020s or the 2040s — or exactly what might take
oil's place — is even
more discombobulating for them.
Whether you're looking for something fun to
do like mini golf or go - karts or a
more practical deal like a discounted
oil change or car wash, you'll find it here.
Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for
more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on
oil demand.
But if support this year exceeds 50 percent, the
oil company likely would
do more to explain potential business impacts from having to meet the Paris agreement's temperature goal.
But the reason they're expecting to
do well this year has
more to
do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low
oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.
It reports that in Bologna's Eataly World you can
do things like watch pasta or olive
oil is made, meet cows and pigs that are treated
more like pets at the facility than food, and snack on freshly cut prosciutto.
Not only are Millennials snubbing
oil and gas because of its negative image, they also seek different job perks than previous generations sought, and in this regard, the
oil industry will need to
do more as it becomes increasingly obvious that Millennials want different things than what
oil executives think they want.
If Alberta wants a
more efficient and cohesive Canada to move its
oil and fill its jobs, it ought to recognize the benefits of national cooperation in other areas as well — and be prepared for the give - and - take that gets that
done.
«As a general rule, Iran, as a populous country, is going to favor higher
oil prices, but that doesn't always hold up case to case, and they've been
more flexible lately.»
Those and four dozen
more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can
Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of
oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.
In contrast to a commodity such as
oil, though, a company can produce
more chips at will, and they often
do.
(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant
does in his new tome, Ethical
Oil: The Case for Canada's
Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even
more.)
Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the
oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has
more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than
does Riddell.
With nearly 2.5 million miles of
oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could
do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.
Near customers, because gasoline is much
more volatile than crude
oil; you don't want to transport it far or in large quantities if you can avoid it.
«China
does have to play the game in technology to an extent because they still import
more silicon semiconductors than
oil and it will take years until they can be fully self - sufficient on semiconductors.»
That suggests that
more companies could find themselves in a distressed position if
oil prices
do not rise.
«We don't want people in mining to suffer because of a big downturn and folks in
oil and gas to make
more because the market is great,» he says.
The study, in fact,
does not address the issue of whether a dilbit spill, once it has happened, has
more serious consequences than any other
oil spill.
Sales at gasoline stations rose 0.9 %, but that had
more to
do with higher
oil prices than stronger demand.
The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already
more affordable, so what if a few American
oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing
oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying
more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big
oil companies and
oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the
oil price this low the
oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.
What's
more, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) just reported that, thanks to the revitalized shale revolution, the U.S. produced over 10 million barrels of
oil per day in November, the first time it's
done so since 1970.
In the years since
oil prices cratered — and subsequently began to rise — energy companies have become much
more efficient and have learned to
do more with less.
Together with their compatriots, they are burning 50 %
more crude
oil than they
did five years ago.
Commerzbank's head of commodity research Eugen Weinberg said
oil market fundamentals «
do not justify the current price, but unfortunately the market is focusing
more on the politics and ignoring some of the warning signs, especially the hike in U.S.
oil production.»
(Of course, this has
more to
do with the government's woeful mismanagement of the country than
oil prices.)
The capacity shutdowns have
done international
oil prices good and now news of
more possible supply disruptions are supporting them, too.
In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to
do no
more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major
oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.
Does Quebec really want
more than a million barrels of
oil coursing through its territory every day?
If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and
more needs to be
done to convince those believing
oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.
You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is
oil — yet the clean energy sector provides
more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.
When Mr. Oliver finally
does decide to deliver a budget, he may have
more than a few fiscal aftershocks from falling
oil prices to manage.
If China wants to burn
more oil, all it has to
do is walk away from the U.S. Treasury auction and take what the U.S. economy will no longer be able to afford to burn.
If it
does increase interest rates, the dollar would be bound to strengthen, making
oil trades (which is settled in dollars)
more expensive for buyers holding other currencies.
Saudi Arabia cemented its position as India's top crude
oil supplier in February, exporting 60 %
more crude than it
did in February 2015 and 24 %
more than January, and leaving Continue Reading
As we extract
more and
more oil from EOR plays, and at the same time are trying to increase quantities stored, we are going to have to move to
more expensive capture opportunities and toward pure storage plays, which both increases capture costs and turns EOR revenues into a storage cost (you are not going to make money injecting CO2 into saline aquifers unless you are being paid to
do so).
Either way this would provide him with
more revenues than simply assuming the existing price of
oil, which is what the Department of Finance has
done in the past.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and
more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle
does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off
oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Any given barrel of
oil is of
more or less equal quality and desirability as any other barrel of
oil, the supply is (barring disaster) predictable and constant, and since
oil is nonperishable, it doesn't matter if it comes from Alberta or Chile or a geyser on the moon: it still attracts the same price.
It also was the only U.S.
oil major to
do more than dabble in energy not derived from fossil fuels.
Saudi Arabia designed the low - price strategy aimed at making
oil production too costly for competitors in North America and Russia, and has refused to make
more significant output cuts unless other producers agree to
do the same.
The rally in
oil prices over the past year likely had
more to
do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the market by the OPEC / non-OPEC Continue Reading
Keeping an eye on the price of
oil doesn't hurt either, especially with smaller corporations who are
more closely - tied to the price of
oil than integrated companies.
It
does not mean energy stocks can not go down
more and there is a fair chance that
oil may still go down further, however, I feel good about nibbling now to build up positions and add even
more positions later if the energy stocks were to go down further, getting Santa Claus gifts even before arrival of Christmas to patient investors and we will be rewarded for that for long time to come.
The price of
oil dropped
more than 3 percent after the U.S. government said crude
oil stockpiles grew
more than expected last week, while gasoline stockpiles didn't shrink as much as investors hoped.
«We think the fundamentals
do not justify the current price, but unfortunately the market is focusing
more on the politics and ignoring some of the warning signs, especially the hike in U.S.
oil production.»
The increase in global demand in 2017 — two million barrels of
oil per day — has
done more than anything else to rectify the oversupply that existed in the
oil market.