This month’s installment of our 11 for '11 series of big picture conversations on the issues of our times. Today, it’s energy, specifially oil. Oil is trading at 112-dollars a barrel, up from 86-dollars a year ago. Michael Klare says the era of easy oil is behind us. He’s made news for his concept of “extreme energy” – the pursuit of fossil fuels in increasingly difficult environments using expensive and sometimes dangerous methods. Klare’s most recent book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet frames today’s political and social unrest as driven by growing competition for diminishing resources and predicts that the stakes will get higher in the future.
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11 for '11: Michael Klare and Extreme Energy
Oil
Russ - Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:18Since the different oil companies get their oil from different places all over the world, using easy and difficult extraction techniques, and use very different refineries and have different transportation costs, why is that went it arrives in our town the prices are all exactly the same. This make no sense other that organized price fixing.
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