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19th March 2010 edition: OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna this week caused no surprises in deciding to keep production quotas unchanged. Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi described current prices as "beautiful". Indeed as the group met the oil price rose to $82/barrel, close to its 2010 high despite only 53% compliance by OPEC to its quotas and low US demand....

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Generating the Future: UK energy systems fit for 2050 - 2062KB
The Royal Academy of Engineering - March 2010

Opportunity cost of tar sands development: How to better spend $379 billion! - 563Kb
WWF-UK and The Co-operative - March 2010

World oil demand’s shift toward faster growing and less price-responsive products and regions - 373Kb
Joyce Dargay of University of Leeds and Dermot Gately of New York University - February 2010

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