List of Oil Production articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Prime Numbers: Pain at the Pump
The impact of high gasoline prices.
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Flip the Switch
Nearly all the world's oil will soon be in the hands of unreliable autocrats. It's time we went electric.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Think Again: Oil
It protects wealthy autocrats, poisons the environment, and fuels international conflicts. Yet it won't be the false threat of scarcity or the rise of an Asian energy axis that convinces the world to finally kick the oil habit. An auto revolution courtesy of Silicon Valley and Shanghai may deliver an end to the defining addiction of our age.
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What America Must Do: Step on the Gas
The world believes that the only thing Americans care about is cheap oil. Prove them wrong.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Oil Shock
Peak oil proponent Kjell Alekett, energy expert Vaclav Smil, and energy and national security analyst Keith Smith take issue with Think Again: Oil author Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran's assertions.
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KHALED FAZAA/AFP/Getty Images Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
On Monday, the Independent reported that a number of countries are conspiring to dump the dollar as the primary oil trade currency, spelling disaster for the U.S. economy. But the United States wouldn't need to fear -- even if it were true.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saving Ghana from Itself
In the September/October issue of Foreign Policy, Moisés Naím asks if there's any way oil-rich countries can avoid the resource curse. Ghana, the newest member of the oil-producing club, has a good shot. Maybe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Exit?
Despite a valiant start, impoverished, oil-rich Chad has succumbed to the resource curse. But it's not too late to escape.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Resource Cursed
Equatorial Guinea is perhaps the world's most striking example of why oil hurts, rather than helps, many of the countries that have it. Will the Obama administration stop the country's dictator from sucking its people dry?
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582244_090819_smokestack_istock5.jpg Is a Green World a Safer World?
A guide to the coming green geopolitical crises.
