The Oil Market In The 1990s


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This book reviews some of those changes that have occurred since the early 1970s. It examines how the efficient use of energy, particularly of oil, can help to create and smooth a transition beyond oil. The book sketches basic elements of the "supply curve" of available oil savings.




The Oil Market in the 1990s


Book Description

This book reviews some of those changes that have occurred since the early 1970s. It examines how the efficient use of energy, particularly of oil, can help to create and smooth a transition beyond oil. The book sketches basic elements of the "supply curve" of available oil savings.




Oil Prices in the 1990s


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"Based on presentations made at the sixth annual International Energy Economics Conference held at the University of Surrey in April 1988" -- p. ix.




Global Oil Trends


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The Gulf crisis has once again drawn attention to the volatility of the worlds largest industry. Even in its aftermath, trends in the world oil market are unclear.Global Oil Trends provides a detailed assessment and long-term perspective of the global oil market in general and the Asia-Pacific market in particular. The 1990 oil crisis is reviewed and the possible impact of growing environmental concerns on the oil industry is discussed. For the last two decades oil demand in the Asia-Pacific region has been the highest in the world and this trend is expected to continue into the future. Global Oil Trends analyses the role of the Asia-Pacific region in the world oil market, discusses the regional oil supply-demand balance, the prospects for the trading of oil products, and the development of the oil refining industry in the region.Global Oil Trends is valuable not only for those in the oil industry but also for academicians, energy planners, university students who are concerned with the global oil situation and the dynamism of the Asia-Pacific oil market.







The Economics and Politics of the United States Oil Industry, 1920-1990


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This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry during the 1920s and 1930s when the domestic syustem of production control was established. It then charts the deveopment and collapse of oil import controls, and the wild scramble for economic rents generated by Government regulation. It discusses the two oil crises and the ‘phantom’ Gulf War crisis, and the importance of public opinion in shaping the policy agenda. It also provides an in-depth study of Congressional oil votes from the 1950s to the 1980s and the formation of oil policy, beginning with theories of economic regulation, the role of interest groups in developing the policy agenda and the role of money in politics.













The Last Wave


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