Sentences with phrase «last oil shock»

In 2005, David left the BBC to write The Last Oil Shock (John Murray Ltd, 2007).

David Strahan is a former BBC business correspondent and author of The Last Oil Shock (John Murray, 2008)

Likewise, if peak oil has not yet arrived, what I call the last oil shock certainly has.

When I sought guidance on what happened on the roads after the last oil shocks, Matt Wald, my longtime colleague and expert on all things that move, sent a link to federal data showing that indeed, driving declined after the 1979 oil disruption, but then resumed its long upward march.

Not exact matches

Among the three price shocks (GST, exchange rate and oil prices), only the last was a pure textbook «supply - side» shock.

The headline GDP figures suggest the oil shock has been bigger and longer - lasting than the Bank thought, which augurs in favour of a rate cut — just to be safe.

Last year, Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of the German parliament, expressed shock that NATO is allowing Turkey to harbour an ISIS camp in Istanbul, facilitate weapons transfers to Islamist militants through its borders, and tacitly support IS oil sales.

But annual growth figures go back far further and show a far longer period of growth - a quarter - century's worth, lasting from the end of the second world war to the first oil shock of the seventies.

Whether such a quantity can be produced from tar sands and oil shale at a price near (never mind below) $ 30 per barrel is highly uncertain, but more suggestive of Lomborgs confusion in any case is that the price he mentions is higher (according to his own Figure 65) than the price of oil has been for any prolonged period in the last 120 years except for 1979 - 86, in the aftermath of the second (1979) Arab - OPEC oil - price shock.3 This means resources of tar sands and oil shale that would be economically exploitable only at prices around $ 30 per barrel are in fact more expensive than oil has been for nearly all of the last century.

What started in the lab during the oil shocks is now blooming and what is needed is deployment rather than basic research or the development that has occured in the last three decades.

Renewable Energy World For at least the last 40 years, since the oil shocks in the 1970s, dealing with fossil fuel subsidies has been on the international agenda.

Just like the Oil shocks of the 70's that drove both these groups into renewable energy, last years oil shock has seen a huge investment in R&D and manufacturing, especially in Singapore, California, Germany and JapOil shocks of the 70's that drove both these groups into renewable energy, last years oil shock has seen a huge investment in R&D and manufacturing, especially in Singapore, California, Germany and Japoil shock has seen a huge investment in R&D and manufacturing, especially in Singapore, California, Germany and Japan.