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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 78.61 | -1.95 | -2.42% | ||
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% | ||
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Mars US • 30 days | 79.71 | -2.05 | -2.51% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 mins | 2.098 | -0.023 | -1.07% |
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Girassol • 3 days | 81.92 | +1.12 | +1.39% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% |
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Peace Sour • 1 min | 57.82 | -1.89 | -3.17% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 1 min | 61.67 | -1.89 | -2.97% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 1 min | 66.27 | -1.89 | -2.77% | ||
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Central Alberta • 1 min | 59.82 | -1.89 | -3.06% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 72.44 | -1.90 | -2.56% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 72.00 | -2.00 | -2.70% | ||
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Kansas Common • 7 days | 65.00 | -0.75 | -1.14% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 83.98 | +1.45 | +1.76% |
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Clean Energy Receives $42 Billion in Investment for Q2
The clean energy sector attracted $41.7 billion in new investment in the second quarter of 2011. Increased spending on solar thermal power plants and strong venture capital (VC) and private…
Japan Turning to Nuclear Fusion Following Fukushima
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Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of July 18, 2011
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Jim Rogers: Buying Commodities Now Guarantees Success for Investors
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Amidst the European Union’s many problems, from the tanking of the economies of a number of its poorer member states to trying to prop up the euro, an issue from…
2011 Renewable Energy Status Report: The Rise of Renewables
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Petroleum Propaganda: Depletion vs Development
Which sounds better? A) The Obama administration should be doing more to develop U.S. oil-and-gas reserves. Or, B) The Obama administration should be doing more to deplete U.S. oil-and-gas reserves.…
Crude Oil Futures Up for the Day as Unemployment Applications Fall
Crude oil futures extended gains on Thursday, climbing to a fresh daily high after official data showed that new applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell to the lowest in three-months…
Tajikistan, A Frail Nation-State Amidst the New Great Game
The past two decades since the 1991 collapse of Communism have seen the Russian Federation and the U.S. involved in an updated version of the 19th century’s “Great Game’ for…
The Relationship between Peak Oil and Peak Debt - Part 2
In Part 1 of this post, I pointed out that an economy is closely linked with the resources that underly it. Because of this, if there is really is a…
Chesapeake Energy to Invest $1 Billion in Natural Gas Cars
Natural gas is gaining ground as oil prices still linger around $100 a barrel; however, there are limited vehicles on the road that can run off of natural gas, and…
Afghanistan: Mining Boom Nurtures Transparency Concerns
Go looking for Wahidullah Shahrani and chances are you’ll find him at an investor conference promoting Afghanistan as an ideal opportunity for global mining companies. By most accounts the minister…
Fed Dissatisfied with Current Pace of Economic Recovery
The minutes from the June Fed meeting provided a little something for everyone as Fed officials discussed both an exit strategy and… drum roll please… the possibility of more quantitative…
Short-Sighted U.S. Policy Towards Pakistan Imperils All of South Asia
The U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense both contain some of Washington’s “best and brightest.” As massive bureaucracies, they also both contain a number of dimwitted people, who…
The Growing Market for Biodiesel and Bio Oils
Today biodiesel is made by the batch, a naturally less efficient way for processes to run. A continuous process would be less expensive to run, easier to manage and need…
IEA's Efforts to Ease High Oil Prices Fails
In recent weeks, the International Energy Agency (IEA) decided to release 60 million barrels of member states’ oil reserves into the world market in what it called an effort to…
World Stock Markets Over-Exposure to Fossil Fuels Putting Investors at Risk
The world’s stock markets are over-exposed to fossil fuels, putting investors at risk of a ‘carbon bubble’, according to a report by research group Carbon Tracker Initiative which calls for…
China’s Great Grain Robbery
The Chinese are nothing if not opportunistic. You may recall that a shocking increase in this year’s corn crop predicted by the US Department of Agriculture triggered a series of…
