google.com - 1/8/2009
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1 day ago SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Energy prices plunged across the board Wednesday after a government report showed U.S. oil reserves were much greater than expected, suggesting demand continues to fall. Sweet crude for February delivery tumbled 12 percent, or $5.95, to settle at $42.63 a barrel ...
uk.reuters.com - 1/1/2009
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uk.reuters.com —
* Ukraine's gas to be cut at 0700
GMT on Thursday * Ukraine says it will maintain...
European supplies * Europe has stocks to ride out crisis - analysts By Vladimir Soldatkin and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Russia was preparing to ...
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WRAPUP 1-Russia prepares to halt gas supplies to ...
ft.com - 1/7/2009
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ft.com —
A monolithic, Putin-led Kremlin using the “energy weapon”
to browbeat neighbouring Ukraine and beyond and threaten the...
rest of Europe with natural gas shortages: the image has become commonplace during the “gas spats” of the past few years. Yet those ...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - The battle of the oligarchs ...
faustasblog.com - 1/8/2009
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faustasblog.com —
Via RWN, The day the sea froze: Temperature
plunges to MINUS 12C and forecasters say it won’t...
warm up until Sunday Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK. In the ...
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Putin: Mr Freeze
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Tomgram: Michael T. Klare, The Problem with Cheap Oil
TomDispatch —
... Only yesterday, it seems, we were bemoaning the high price of oil. Under the headline "Oil's Rapid Rise Stirs Talk of $200 a Barrel This Year," the July 7 issue of the Wall Street Journal warned that prices that high would put "extreme strains on large sectors of the U.S. economy." Today, oil, at over $40 a barrel, costs less than one-third what it did in July, and some economists have ...
Michael T. Klare: Oil 2009: Be Careful What You Wish For
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Only yesterday, it seems, we were bemoaning the high price of oil. Under the headline "Oil's Rapid Rise Stirs Talk of $200 a Barrel This Year," the July 7 issue of the Wall Street Journal warned that prices that high would put "extreme strains on large sectors of the U.S. economy." Today, oil, at over $40 a barrel, costs less than one-third what it did in July, and some economists have ...
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