Jim repeats the common complaint about the SNP spending too much time talking about oil.
My hunch is that its going to be all about oil for at least the next decade.
When you pull up to a gas pump, are you overcome with warm feelings about oil cartels?
The Egyptian-born money manager made a comment about oil markets as well, calling the outlook there much more uncertain.
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But US engagement in the Middle East is not simply about oil imports.
The country is key to western plans about oil pipelines in the region.
The company faces a tidal wave of litigation and an epidemic of stories about oil-drenched sea birds and devastated wetlands.
Johnson, partner and corporate practice group leader at Burleson LLP, sat down with us and talked about oil and gas due diligence.
Despite central-bank pooh-bahs' fretting about oil prices (up more than 50% in recent months) and tight labor markets, inflation is hardly a threat.
But the talk here is not about BP's internal politics or its financial status, it is about oil and getting back to work.
Despite central-bank Poo-Bahs fretting about oil prices (up more than 50% in recent months) and tight labor markets, inflation is hardly a threat.
Even in America, where the strength of the expansion has consistently surprised economists, there are nascent signs of slowdown and worries about oil.
Most of the headlines about oil prices look at the issue from the consumption perspective: the pain which high energy costs is causing.
Surprisingly, for a man who got his start in the oil business, Bush even bungled an easy question from Steve Forbes about oil pricing.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- While the war in Iraq may not have been about oil, post-war Iraq will almost certainly be shaped by it.
Or was it all about oil and those Halliburton contracts?
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"There's nothing unique about oil as a stationary fuel, " Littell says.
Coal is different from oil, and much of the intuition that we may have developed about oil from nights pondering TOD posts is wrong for coal.
When you think about Chad, you should think about oil and you should think about the richness of the oil, particularly in the southern part of the country in Chad.
Why on earth are we worried about oil again?
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If its results affirmed GM as the healthiest of the wounded Big Three domestic manufacturers, they will probably not please environmental groups concerned about oil consumption as the country fights a war in Central Asia.
So, battles on the Tunisian- Libyan border, calls for public demonstrations in Teheran, unrest in Bahrain, Algeria that suggests the daisy chain moves ultimately to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and who-knows-where-else all add up to uncertainty about oil prices.
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While Scotland's public spending levels at present would require all of the oil revenues it can expect from oil, and still leaves a significant government deficit, there is a warning that an independent Scottish government should make cautious budget assumptions about oil revenues when they are so volatile.
This isn't just about the oil spill, this is about our total disconnect between our attitude, our actions, and the consequences.
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Earlier in the briefing in talking about the oil spill, you had said -- about the volume of the spill, you had said there are certainly many reasons to find out the degree to which that is happening.
For Mr Bush, who has openly campaigned to defend the interests of the oil industry, to go suddenly weak at the knees about high oil prices is bizarre.
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