Canadian Oil Sands: Our ticket to Sustainability

This is an update to my previous post on the CIBC’s predictions of oil production past 2005. The National Post/Canada.com has a similar report that actually contains quotes from Mr. Rubin. This was his major point: The six largest multinationals face declining production in the next two years So, since the Canadian oil patch is …

Bloggers Block… items of 2006

Call it fatigue.. call it New Years blaahhhgs.. call it laziness. The meat of the matter is that I just haven’t felt compelled to blog recently. Th news lately has been particularly uninspiring. The Ukraine and Russia… in a tiff over gas delivery at market prices… threatened to destabilize gas supplies for a large part …

US Dollar : Under Pressure from Russia

Yesterday I talked about how the Iranian government was using many different levers to “disrupt and annoy” the United States. Most critically, I mentioned their move to making all their oil transactions in Euros instead of Dolllars, thus forcing any countries using their oil to hold Euros in their federal reserves instead of Greenbacks. Admittedly, …