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All items tagged BPOpen Think Tank ArticlesAugust 2, 2010 | When Will Big Oil Ever Learn?Christoph Suess: Big oil suppliers like Halliburton should be humble given the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, they are claiming that the current crisis won’t affect their business significantly. Governments and above all we, the informed public, should not put up with such obscene behaviour. ... MoreMarch 13, 2009 | A Compromise Energy Policy Is Within ReachTony Hayward: The new American energy policy should be a mixture of alternative energies and drilling. Only a compromise will succeed to tackle climate change while guaranteeing energy security and efficiency. ... MoreGlobal Must Read ArticlesAugust 19, 2010 | Political Populism is the Real Threat in the GulfThe Gulf oil spill is the latest example of state terror, hyped by Obama as a national disaster for political ends. ++ In reality, oil has reached only 10 percent of the coastline, but the economic consequences stemming from the media blitz are devastating. ++ Obama’s populist rhetoric, backed up by “dial-a-quote scientists howling blue murder,” has emptied clean beaches of tourists, ... MoreJune 14, 2010 | BP Taints the "Special Relationship"US President Obama has stepped up his rhetoric against BP in recent weeks, calling for criminal investigations and increasing efforts to remove the statutory cap on the company’s liability. ++ “Given the extraordinary importance of BP for the UK stock market, the stakes are huge, and the row might easily open a rift between Mr Obama, no instinctive admirer of the British to begin ... MoreFebruary 26, 2009 | Obama Must Allow Ocean Oil DrillingAll US presidents say they want to change our dependency on foreign energy, and yet US oil imports have doubled in 35 years. ++ In the future we should not be choosing between coastal oil drilling and energy conservation, but do both. ++ We need state subsidies, incentives for companies to diversify into “low-carbon” energy. ++ At the same time protected places such as the ocean shelf must be ... More |
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