Add to ORKGBook review by Robert Looney on the book Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East, by Valerie Marcel.The field of economics is littered with numerous myths about energy, particularly about oil. At the top of the list is the notion of impending scarcity: because the earth's reserves are finite, they will be exhausted at some point in the future. In reality, if and when the growth of oil consumption seriously depletes reserves, the cost of extracting oil will have risen to such a high level that non-fossil energy sources will be used in preference to oil and other remaining fossil fuels - Europe's vast deposits of coal are currently lying dormant for this very reason..
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unpreceden...
In the world of energy, an elite selection of the world’s most influential leaders dictates the deve...
The price of oil has surged five-fold since 2003. A variety of factors are used to explain this: tur...
This forecast of oil depletion in the next few years has set a new deadline for the depletion of fos...
Oil is a controversial natural resource. One aspect of its controversial nature takes the form of pe...
ONCE AGAIN THE debate has intensified over whether energy as a commodity is running out. Just six or...
There is concern within some factions of the energy industry about an approaching global crisis caus...
Despite the recent uptick in production of natural gas and liquid fuels in the United States, increa...
By 2025 world energy demand is ex- pected to increase by 54 percent. Oil and natural gas consumption...
The formation of modern society has been dominated by coal and oil, and together these two fossil fu...
life without oil is perhaps the most comprehensive and deeply integrated book on energy issues avail...
This very article deals not only with the aspects in relation to oil preservation, policies taken up...
Having read this book, one is left with a feeling that the important issues raised should have been ...
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/def...
ONCE AGAIN THE debate has intensified over whether energy as a com-modity is running out. Just six o...
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unpreceden...
In the world of energy, an elite selection of the world’s most influential leaders dictates the deve...
The price of oil has surged five-fold since 2003. A variety of factors are used to explain this: tur...
This forecast of oil depletion in the next few years has set a new deadline for the depletion of fos...
Oil is a controversial natural resource. One aspect of its controversial nature takes the form of pe...
ONCE AGAIN THE debate has intensified over whether energy as a commodity is running out. Just six or...
There is concern within some factions of the energy industry about an approaching global crisis caus...
Despite the recent uptick in production of natural gas and liquid fuels in the United States, increa...
By 2025 world energy demand is ex- pected to increase by 54 percent. Oil and natural gas consumption...
The formation of modern society has been dominated by coal and oil, and together these two fossil fu...
life without oil is perhaps the most comprehensive and deeply integrated book on energy issues avail...
This very article deals not only with the aspects in relation to oil preservation, policies taken up...
Having read this book, one is left with a feeling that the important issues raised should have been ...
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/def...
ONCE AGAIN THE debate has intensified over whether energy as a com-modity is running out. Just six o...
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unpreceden...
In the world of energy, an elite selection of the world’s most influential leaders dictates the deve...
The price of oil has surged five-fold since 2003. A variety of factors are used to explain this: tur...