Energy
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"Stuck
in the middle of a colder than normal winter the South Korean
government has been campaigning nationwide to urge its people
to save energy wherever possible and prevent blackouts. Yet
as the demand for power continues to increase they have taken other
measures to avoid catastrophe."
"The
impoverished Central Asian state of Tajikistan said Monday that
it had been cut off from natural gas shipments by its neighbour
and sole energy supplier Uzbekistan."
"Saudi
Arabia’s PetroRabigh refining and petrochemicals complex will
carry out maintenance for 20 days after a power cut on
Saturday forced it to halt operations, it said in a bourse
statement yesterday."
"City
Electric crews in Cushing are working to restore power to much
of Cushing this New Year's Day after a major power outage."
"A
cargo train filled with biofuels crossed the border between the US
and Canada 24 times between the 15th of June and the 28th
of June 2010; not once did it unload its cargo, yet it still
earned millions of dollars."
"After
scrambling for years to secure space in Singapore's onshore oil
storage tanks, some of the biggest fuel oil traders in Asia
are giving up tanks or moving stocks offshore as a global shipping
industry downturn makes leasing tankers more affordable."
The
standard argument ignores the enormous amount of fossil-fuel energy
embodied in renewable-energy hardware. --RF
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