End of the road as carmaker Saab files for bankruptcy – Yahoo! News.
My dad used to own a bright green two-cylinder slug-shaped Saab. The company’s heritage as a manufacturer of jet fighters was not very evident in the design.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, EU, Iran, Japan, oil exports, OPEC, production, Turkey
From http://www.eia.gov/cabs/iran/Full.html
If the EU stops buying oil from Iran, that would seem to benefit China, Turkey and Japan.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, Natural gas, pipelines, Turkmenistan

Asia Times Online :: Turkmenistan to boost gas exports to China.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, CNOOC, G, GOM, Gulf of Mexico, Nexen
“Nexen, CNOOC Team Up in GOM JV,” Rigzone, November 30, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, gas prices, Natural Born Drillers, oil prices, Paul Krugman, peak oil
…Although he does make other good points, like Yergin, in service of his argument of the day.
…Oil prices are up because of rising demand from China and other emerging economies, and more recently because of war scares in the Middle East; these forces easily outweigh any downward pressure on prices from rising U.S. production.
via Natural Born Drillers – NYTimes.com.











