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December 30th, 2014 - 6:50 am § in The Ave Scene

A Sight Coming Near You Soon

The number of oil trains crossing Washington every week may grow from 19 to 137 by 2o20, if all the proposed oil terminals are approved, the state Department of Ecology says. http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2025329443_washdevelopmentxml.html[...]

December 10th, 2014 - 12:25 pm § in Misc.

What’s going on with oil? A Q & A primer

Here are some basic facts about oil. The economic law of supply and demand affects pricing, supply, and demand with respect to oil. Unlike natural gas, whose markets are fragmented, and whose pricing varies widely by geographic local, oil can be transported across oceans easily and cheaply, so oil&#[...]

March 11th, 2011 - 11:50 pm § in Environment, Politics, Saudi Arabia

Is Saudi Arabia the next to fall?

from Spiegel   By Bernhard Zand Translated from German by Christopher Sultan The Arab world to which Abdullah had returned was no longer the same one it had been a few weeks earlier, when he left for New York. When Abdullah arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh last Wednesday, it was no longer just [...]