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• An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.…
• The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian…
• Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
• In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to…
• So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment…
• People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200…
• The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
• The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.
• The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it…
• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55…
• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result…
• We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the…

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