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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 78.61 | -1.95 | -2.42% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% | ||
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Mars US • 29 days | 79.71 | -2.05 | -2.51% | ||
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Gasoline • 1 day | 2.121 | -0.055 | -2.51% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 81.92 | +1.12 | +1.39% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% |
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Peace Sour • 2 days | 59.71 | -1.90 | -3.08% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 2 days | 63.56 | -1.90 | -2.90% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 2 days | 68.16 | -1.90 | -2.71% | ||
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Central Alberta • 2 days | 61.71 | -1.90 | -2.99% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 72.44 | -1.90 | -2.56% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 72.00 | -2.00 | -2.70% | ||
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Kansas Common • 6 days | 65.00 | -0.75 | -1.14% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.98 | +1.45 | +1.76% |
Kurt Cobb
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Resilience, Le Monde Diplomatique, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Latest articles from Kurt
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The Surprising Scarcity Of Suitable Sand
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The Growing Energy Footprint Of The Information Economy
Back in 2009 I wrote a piece entitled "The unbearable lightness of information." Since then the information economy has become ever more resource intensive. Examples…
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The Growing Importance Of Graphite In The Clean Energy Economy
The substance that constitutes a pencil lead and an important component of electric vehicle batteries is suddenly less available. China, the world's top producer of…
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The Metals Behind Our Clean Energy Future
A very observant longtime friend of mine opined recently that the clean energy economy is really just a metals energy economy where metals provide the…
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Fracking Fallout: Is America's Drinking Water Safe?
Eleven years ago, I wrote about the how millions of holes drilled deep into American soil were already destined to pollute groundwater across the United…
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Panama's Water Crisis Is Reshaping Global Trade
You've almost certainly read about the backup of ships waiting to transit the Panama Canal, which carries 6 percent of all commercial ships worldwide. While…
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White Hydrogen: Boon Or Bust For A Sustainable Future?
Just when you thought the hydrogen economy zombie was dead and gone, it rises again, this time in color. Yes, hydrogen comes in many colors…
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What Happens When Essential Commodities Become Luxuries?
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Reducing Consumption: The Unpopular Answer To Global Crises
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Escalating Geopolitical Tensions Begin To Chip Away At Globalization
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Rising Seas, Rising Rates: The Impact Of Climate Change On Insurance
A person buying insurance does so because he or she is concerned about the future. A house fire could lead to a financial wipe-out. A…
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Climate Change Threatens Outdated Infrastructure
We humans now face an era of climate that is uncharted for the size and complexity of the human community. Our roads, rails, ports, buildings,…
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Code Language Limitations: The Achilles’ Heel Of Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving vehicles are stopping in traffic for no apparent reason and blocking emergency vehicles reports the Los Angeles Times. The writer alludes to a famous…
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Flash Droughts: Climate Change’s Next Big Blow
The state of Illinois is suffering from its driest conditions in more than a decade. In fact, large swathes of the Midwest and Plains states are…
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Nuclear Fusion: A Clean Energy Revolution Or A Radioactive Nightmare?
A friend of mine who was trained as a physicist used to joke about a future in which each of us would carry handheld fusion…
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Looming Copper Shortage Could Be A Wake-up Call For Big Tech
I'm certainly not the only person who noticed before now that sustaining our increasing consumption of copper would be difficult as I suggested in my…
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How The Pace Of Climate Change Keeps Surprising Us
This seems like the 10th time that I've read a story that says Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than previously thought and thus the consequences of climate…
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Are We Prepared For The Unintended Consequences Of Emerging Tech?
Certainly, there a plenty of horror stories about possible disasters awaiting us from emerging technologies. I've written about two of them: 1) the possibility of small…
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Can Technology Really Solve Our Climate Problems?
My expectations are never disappointed when I read the news each day and find out that the solutions to the problems created by our modern…
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Satellite Waste Is Becoming A Huge Problem
Here we go again. Satellite companies that plan to put tens of thousands of satellites into orbit to create space-based internet and cellphone networks are…
