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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 73.53 | -2.49 | -3.28% | ||
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 76.08 | +0.77 | +1.02% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 76.94 | -0.55 | -0.71% | ||
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Mars US • 3 days | 71.47 | +0.84 | +1.19% | ||
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Gasoline • 20 mins | 2.693 | -0.010 | -0.38% |
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 76.08 | +0.77 | +1.02% | ||
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Girassol • 3 days | 78.05 | +0.70 | +0.90% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 76.94 | -0.55 | -0.71% |
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Peace Sour • 8 hours | 66.92 | +0.84 | +1.27% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 8 hours | 68.22 | +0.84 | +1.25% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 8 hours | 77.17 | +0.84 | +1.10% | ||
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Central Alberta • 8 hours | 66.52 | +0.84 | +1.28% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 69.15 | +0.84 | +1.23% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 69.25 | +0.75 | +1.09% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 63.00 | +1.00 | +1.61% | ||
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Buena Vista • 6 days | 76.15 | -1.09 | -1.41% |
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More Efficient Solar Energy
Solar power could be harvested more efficiently and transported over longer distances using tiny molecular circuits based on quantum mechanics, according to research inspired by new insights into natural photosynthesis.…
Oil Diplomacy to the Rescue? Cuban Drilling off Florida Keys to Begin by End of the Year
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China’s Rare Earths Monopoly - Peril or Opportunity?
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In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy. All Very…
Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of September 26, 2011
The downtrend continued in Natural Gas last week as the November futures contract plunged to a new low for the year at 3.745. Bearish fundamentals and a weakening technical picture…
EU Calling for More Green Taxes to Prepare for a Sustainable Future
The European Commission has drawn up a “roadmap to a resource efficient Europe”, which it believes shows the way for the EU to decouple economic growth from resource use and…
Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of September 26, 2011
November Crude Oil finished sharply lower this week in a move driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s assessment of the economy. On Wednesday, September 21, the Fed stated in its…
Azerbaijan Goes From Strength to Strength - Maybe
The Soviet Union imploded peacefully in December 1991 and fifteen new nations lost no time in running for the exits. Western capitalists, drooling at the vast potential opportunities unleashed by…
Why the EIA’s Latest Forecast of a 53% Jump in Energy Demand is Misleading
The EIA published International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO 2011) on September 19, showing energy projections to 2035. One summary stated, “Global Energy Use to Jump 53%, largely driven…
Mexican Government Under Assault From Drug Cartels, Washington Yawns
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Changing Behavior of Crude Oil Futures Prices
I've just finished a new research paper with my former student (and now University of Chicago Professor) Cynthia Wu. In our new paper, we study how increased purchases of…
Could Bacteria Help Provide us with a Limitless Supply of Hydrogen Fuel?
Penn State researchers have discovered a low-energy way to harvest hydrogen fuel that may offer a limitless supply of the clean-burning power source. Hydrogen is a dream fuel that was…
North and South Korean Nuclear Breakthrough?
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Would Replacing Fossil Fuels with Biomass Reduce Co2 Emissions
One of the reasons governments have been pushing biomass burning is the notion that it would displace fossil fuels and thereby reduce CO2 emissions. Biomass is renewable and displaces fossil…
