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• Investor Interest in U.S. Biofuel Production Set to Soar

  Published 26 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On 16 August President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million by 2014 in partnership…

• Libya's Post Gadhaffi Future - Who gets the Oil?

  Published 24 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Muammar Gadhaffi's 42 year-old regime is in its death rattle - maybe today, maybe tomorrow, his administration that has ruled Libya with a quixotic and…

• Joint Chinese-Indian Oil Tanker Patrols Possible?

  Published 18 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Aside from cost, the major problem for oil importing countries is getting the purchases safely home. Essentially, there are only two options - pipelines and…

• Russian Pipeline Transiting North Korea Somewhat Unlikely

  Published 16 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  There apparently is something about building pipelines that causes otherwise rational oilmen to indulge in reveries that would give an opium addict pause. Two of…

• Ukraine to Cut Gazprom's Umbilical Cord?

  Published 12 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Sometimes it's not easy being Russia's neighbor - just ask Ukraine. Ever since the 1991 implosion of the USSR, Ukraine's relations with Russia have appeared…

• China and Rare Earths

  Published 11 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  First, the bad news - China's constrained rare earth supplies will be an "irreversible trend" and prices will remain at high levels, according to Zhang…

• Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests

  Published 10 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator's situation is akin to interwar…

• Coal and Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy

  Published 08 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The domestic alternative energy policy in the US seems to rotate on semantics and adding words to other words to make it look like something…

• Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization?

  Published 04 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  If Cuba's Fidel Castro is America's favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela's Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington's reigning Prince of Darkness. In 1960, Fidel…

• The Quiet Revolution: Latin America Moving Away from Washington's Influence

  Published 02 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Perhaps the biggest foreign-policy story of the past decade, thoroughly overlooked by the American media after 9/11 and its subsequent monomaniacal focus on terrorism, security…

• Biofuels Potential to Transform the Global Economy

  Published 29 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Slowly but surely, an extraordinarily important new industry is slowly taking shape, with the potential to transform the global economy. After years of existing largely…

• Iran's Dream for a Middle East Gas Pipeline

  Published 27 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Nothing gets oilmen more excited than the idea of building pipelines from exotic, hard to reach places to seaports where the product of their endeavors…

• The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energy Policy in the USA

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks…

• America: Why Aren't You Protesting?

  Published 22 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As noted by Richard Heinberg on June 22nd, 2011, the media has lacked the ability to connect the economic situations in the Middle East and…

• Uzbekistan's Untapped Solar Energy Riches

  Published 22 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The 17th century English philosopher, Francis Bacon, once observed that, "knowledge is power. So, here's some power knowledge that the West has overlooked, but may…

• PEMEX and the Long Road to Privatization

  Published 21 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is the state-owned oil company (and natural gas) of México, which since the 90's has been discussed for privatization like many other…

• The Return of Gazprom

  Published 20 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The December 1991 collapse of the USSR was an unmitigated disaster for all 15 nations emerging from the desiccated carapace of the Soviet Union. Now,…

• Iran Opens Oil Bourse - Harbinger of Trouble for New York and London?

  Published 19 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The last three years of global recession have dealt a major blow to American capitalist ideas trumpeted throughout the world on the value of "free…

• Tajikistan, a Frail Nation-State Amidst the New 'Great Game'

  Published 14 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Could Energy Resources Cause Russia to Spark a Naval War in the Caspian?

  Published 11 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the past three decades the Islamic Republic of Iran has developed a well-earned sense of paranoia. First, in September 1980 Saddam Hussein invaded Iran…