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 Stories About: Big Oil AND energy AND energy efficiency AND oil
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Replacing Oil With, Uh, More Oil
National Petroleum Council pictures life after conventional crude |
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17 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Replacing Oil With, Uh, More Oil National Petroleum Council pictures life after conventional crude There's a new voice in the crowd shrieking about waning oil supplies: the National Petroleum Council. OK, they're not actually shrieking. But in a draft report released this week, the group -- headed by former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond -- confirms that conventional crude oil supplies ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, biofuels, coal, energy, energy efficiency, natural gas, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Big oil, stopped clocks, energy efficiency
An oil exec gets the diagnosis right |
David Roberts |
29 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| One hesitates to agree with the CEO of a major oil company, but ... I can't really figure where Jeroen van der Veer, head of Royal Dutch Shell, is wrong in all this. He says: Energy demand is growing, and is likely to double by 2050. Oil and gas are going to become more difficult to reach. Coal will kill us. Even optimistic estimates for renewables -- say, growing from 1% to 30% in the world energy balance -- still leaves a hell of a lot of fossil fuels ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, energy, energy efficiency, oil (all these topics) |
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