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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 88.38 | +1.26 | +1.45% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.85 | -1.30 | -1.44% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 89.19 | +0.80 | +0.91% | ||
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Mars US • 179 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 1 hour | 2.746 | -0.003 | -0.11% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.85 | -1.30 | -1.44% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.64 | -1.21 | -1.33% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 89.19 | +0.80 | +0.91% |
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Peace Sour • 5 hours | 75.83 | -1.22 | -1.58% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 5 hours | 78.88 | -1.22 | -1.52% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 5 hours | 85.83 | -1.22 | -1.40% | ||
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Central Alberta • 5 hours | 76.23 | -1.22 | -1.58% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 80.33 | +0.28 | +0.35% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 80.25 | +0.25 | +0.31% | ||
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Kansas Common • 4 days | 74.00 | +0.25 | +0.34% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 88.22 | +0.99 | +1.13% |
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Anyone following developments for the electric grids of developed countries in the world will see (if the head is not in the ground) that the last decade already changed the game very much and that renewables will be the majority of the new electricity generation for this decade.
For some the idea of change is conceived as a threat or as something we should fear and respond with plain denial of the new reality as opposed to being ready for it and anticipating towards it.
The first is can renewables satisfy global electricity demand? The answer is an emphatic NO. On their own, renewables aren’t capable of satisfying global energy demand because of their intermittent nature. Moreover, global energy transition won’t succeed without major contributions from both natural gas and nuclear energy.
The second question is can the global economy survive without fossil fuels? The answer is again an emphatic NO. The global economy will come to a standstill without oil and gas.
This means that there will neither be a post-oil era nor a peak oil demand either throughout the 21st century and probably far beyond. The global economy will continue to run on oil well into the future. Nothing could replace oil in the next 100 years and beyond.
Moreover, the notions of an imminent global energy transition and net-zero emissions are illusions. Global energy transition can only be gradual with natural gas being the pivot for the transition.
Therefore, the best way to combat climate change is to focus on reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels and not their actual use.
The real choice facing humanity is between (1) accepting a level of emissions which may or may not destroy our planet as nobody can be sure about that not even the Nobel prize physicists or (2) facing a certain and assured death as a result of starvation and plagues and even nuclear wars with nuclear powers trying to grab whatever resources they could get their hands on and in so doing destroy the whole planet.
I believe that humanity will overwhelmingly vote for a continuation of fossil fuels in the absence of something more effective and safer.
Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
International Oil Economist
Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London