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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Great minds: Saudis prove EIA's point Offshore drilling has an 'insignificant' effect on oil prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I am glad that so many in the energy debate have picked up on one of the two messages from my previous post (see 'EIA to McCain: Drop offshore [drilling]'). But in listening to the radio and TV debates, I realize that some people have the impression that U.S. Energy Information Administration said offshore drilling might eventually lower oil prices. It did not. It found that allowing offshore drilling would have no significant effect on prices as far out into the fu ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Nibbling the hand that supplies you Saudi Arabia to host summit on high gas prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Since when do we deal with our addiction by going to summits hosted by drug suppliers? Yet here is the Washington Post: 'Saudi Arabian Oil Summit Hopes to Isolate Cause of Price Rise' JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 21 -- Leaders from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations will meet here Sunday to try to pinpoint the reasons behind the rise in oil prices, which have doubled over the past year, and to find ways to bring them down. You cannot make this s ...
Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Put down the oil Increasing oil production will not substitute as energy solution	Michael Moynihan	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted on the NDN Blog. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia did what everyone -- including George W. Bush on bended knee -- has been asking it to do for months: agree to increase production. Prices closed up a dollar. The Saudi move and its non-impact on the market shows just how tight supplies remain. While it was designed in large part to offset declines in Nigerian production due to rebel violence in the oil-rich, poverty-stricken Niger Delta, it might have ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

With friends like these ... Saudis agree with McCain: Cut gasoline taxes!	Joseph Romm	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If anything should put a stake through John McCain's absurd gas tax holiday idea, it's that the Saudi King advocates it, too! As I have previously noted, the only ones who benefit from the gas tax are the oil companies and the petroleum producers. Case in point, the biggest producer just said: Next month, the Saudis will be pumping an extra half-a-million barrels of oil a day compared to last month, bringing total Saudi production to 9.7 million barrels a ...
Topics: Big Oil, gas prices, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Holding onto what's golden Saudi Arabia and oil	Andrew Dessler	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I recently found a pretty good NYT Magazine article on oil production. It's definitely worth a read, if for no other reason than as a reminder of how much things have changed since the article was written in 2005. For example, on page 1 comes the quaint statement: If consumption begins to exceed production by even a small amount, the price of a barrel of oil could soar to triple-digit levels. Yes ... yes it could. Here's another one: But will such a situatio ...
Topics: energy, oil, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

We're Getting the Shakes President Bush asks OPEC to boost oil production		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 15 Jan 2008 President Bush, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, has urged the key member of OPEC to boost oil production. "Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy," said Bush. "I would hope, as OPEC considers different production levels, that they understand that if ... one of their biggest consumers' economy suffers, it will mean less purchases, less gas and oil sold." Tran ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, international politics, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Smoking monkeys Sighted in a Saudia Arabian zoo	Tom Philpott	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I interrupt my reporting from Iowa to pass on this curio I found on the blog of my old friend Angelo Young, who works in Saudi Arabia and writes bemused, funny missives from the global crude-oil capital. In this one, he reports a strange sight in a Jeddah zoo: 'This Lebanese guy handed the monkey a fag and a bottle of water,' said a guy I know who recently took his daughter and wife to the zoo. 'It knew enough not to grab the lit end, and started smoking it by inh ...
Topics: Saudi Arabia, wildlife (all these topics)

Friends With Benefits Saudi-owned company set to profit from proposed MTBE liability shield		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
Friends With Benefits Saudi-owned company set to profit from proposed MTBE liability shield OK, kids, follow the bouncing red ball: The Republican energy bill, pending in the Senate, is advertised as a way to gain independence from Saudi Arabian oil (boing!). Part of the energy bill, included at the insistence of Texas Rep. Tom DeLay (R), is a provision shielding makers of groundwater-polluti ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia, toxics (all these topics)

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