Tag Archives: energy policy

Answers to Global Warming/Oil production survey

3 Sep 2008 – 12:31

Questions and answers to the Mechanical Turk survey are below:
1. Please describe what *Climate Change* means to you.
The average course or condition of the weather at a particular place over a period of many years as exhibited in absolute extremes, means, and frequencies of given departures from these means, of temperature, wind velocity, precipitation, and [...]

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Useful graphics on oil consumption/production

4 Aug 2008 – 15:05

Why Does Gas Cost $4+ per Gallon?

What’s in a barrel?

What’s in a price?

Price Range

Sticker Shock

Major Global Trade Routes

U.S. Oil Production vs. Consumption

U.S. Oil Imports

Top Importers and Exporters

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No longer “Drowning in Oil”

1 Aug 2008 – 19:51

From the recent Washington Post article, “This Time, It’s Different” :
…a decade ago…conditions looked radically different. Regular unleaded gas was less than a dollar a gallon. Oil was little more than $10 a barrel. And the Economist magazine, predicting prices could soon be half that, ran a cover story with the headline: “Drowning in Oil.”
I [...]

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