Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The most immediate issue is how the brutal incursion and Israeli reprisals will affect diplomatic efforts between the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia to improve relations between Israel and the Saudis. Oil prices started the week of Oct. 9 off with a surge ...
No other geographically circumscribed area in the world can come close to matching this, so if you really want to get down and dirty, California has done more toward bringing on greenhouse gas induced climate change than any other place. The question has to arise: Should a carbon tax be ...
Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species’ extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel. GoneFishing ...
Suddenly my daughter, who’s seven, said, “You’re lucky you got to have your adulthood before the planet was completely destroyed by climate change.” I didn’t know this was on her mind. I hadn’t spent all that much time talking to her about it. And the worst part, somehow, ...
US faces change as climate warms Chicago and Los Angeles will likely face increasing heat waves. Severe storm surges could hit New York and Boston. And cities that rely on melting snow for water may run into serious shortages. Snowy forests 'increase warming' Planting trees in snowy areas...
20 to change the companyís name to First National Bank Alaska. The change was made to reflect the company's statewide presence, the company said. The bank was the first national bank to be chartered in Anchorage. It opened in 1922. URS consolidates Anchorage offices URS Corp. has moved ...
And the fact that it may become highly inelastic does not change the fact that oil is no different whether it comes from Iraq or Russia. Of course oil is of varying degrees either heavy or light, sweet or sour, but that is all handled through arbitrageglobally.Similar oil is priced in ...
As usual, the oiligarchs that funded this change were also there to profit from it, and once again John D. took his cue from “Devil” Bill’s example. William Rockefeller had called his brand of snake oil “Nujol,” for “new oil,” and Standard Oilspun off “Nujol”as a laxative...
But I have been trying to make the point for many years that global warming or climate change or whatever euphemism you decide on, is really just one side of the coin. The other side is the availability of fossil fuels to begin with. In simple terms, the earth is a finite hunk of ...
LosAngelesarket on Thursday morning,on talkof a shut gasolineroduction unit at California's largest refinery, tradersaid.gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unitwashutting down on Wednesdayat Chevron Corp's 273,000barrel-per-day(bpd)LosAngeles-area refineryin ElSe-undo,California, traders ...