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Aug. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Warning

Last February, from The Guardian: Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world…
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Jul. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Phony War

Ah, the blissful days of an approaching August.  Like  the long Edwardian summer that preceded World War I, it seems…
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Jul. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Volcano on Dunsmuir Street

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Half a month after the new Dunsmuir cycle track opened, the reaction to the…
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Jul. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Reinhold Niebuhr

Neibuhr, writing about a newly predominant America 50 years ago: The same strength which has extended our power beyond a…
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Jun. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Price on the price (of oil and other stuff)

Dependent editor Matt Chambers did a lengthy interview with me and then, better yet, did a masterful job at chopping…
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Jun. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: … you could not fail

A year ago, (BP CEO Tony) Hayward told a group of graduate students at Stanford University that he has a…
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Jun. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Profligacy

There’s no fuel that even comes close to replacing kerosene and naphtha as jet fuel. What’s astonishing is that we…
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Apr. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Ten Million Barrel shortfall

This piece on peak oil from a report by the U.S. military was published in the Guardian a few days…
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Nov. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Quote: Peak Oil and the IEA

From The Guardian: Now the “peak oil” theory is gaining support at the heart of the global energy establishment. “The…
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Aug. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Future with Peak Oil

“Less far, less fast, less often, and more expensive.” You can find that quote in this nice summary of the consequences…
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Aug. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Leave oil before oil leaves us”

An interview in The Independent (August 3) with Dr. Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
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Aug. 26, 2008 / Gordon Price

Where Oil Will Go

Here’s a quote from a California candidate for Congress: Just because oil is found on American soil, does not make…
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Aug. 22, 2008 / Gordon Price

Quote

Oil is the source of the power of our enemies, and the enemies of democracy and peace. Until we shift…
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Jul. 01, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Triple-Witching Hour

This just in from Rick Cole, the City Manager of Ventura, California – and one of the most articulate voices…

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