Essentially, a supply-focused oil strategy is like a game of Whac-A-Mole.
America's oil strategy, a central tenet of U.S. foreign policy since President Roosevelt met King Saud aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in 1945 and cobbled together their "special relationship, " succeeded in fueling the low-cost, motorized American way of life.
Meanwhile, the new oil and gas strategy aimed at securing thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of investment was unveiled by UK Business Secretary Vince Cable in Aberdeen, which is known as the oil capital of Europe.
But an energy strategy that focuses only on drilling and not on an energy strategy that will free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, that's a losing strategy.
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That seems to be what Soros is betting too with his "short oil, long gold" strategy.
Shell has been on a massive divestment strategy on its oil field assets, from Africa to the Far East for the last 12 months, or since Rossi did his first demonstration this time last year.
Part of this strategy involves increasing our oil exploration right here in America.
Then Oil and other fossil fuels will go into a long decline with investors on a business decline strategy making money out of the asset stripping and running the oil fields into the ground.
But Joe Dyer, the chief strategy officer at iRobot, thinks oil-and-gas exploration will be a big market for the firm's gliders, because they can survey large areas of seabed in detail at low cost.
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But the truth is, drilling alone is not a real strategy to replace our dependence on foreign oil.
At best, the Obama administration's approach to U.S. domestic oil and gas production can be characterized as a strategy of ambivalence, an uneasy equilibrium between desire to lessen the role of fossil fuels and the reality of their necessity in a functioning U.S. economy.
China has a straightforward strategy for diminishing its dependence on Middle East oil: buy from Africa.
Now, I want to make clear, we all know that drilling for oil has to be a key part of our overall energy strategy.
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Summarising his report, he said energy efficiency was "undervalued" and Northern Ireland needed a clear strategy to reduce its "heavy dependence on heating oil".
Joe in its unconventional strategy of concentrating on BP contractors instead of the British oil company itself.
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"I believe it is in our national interest to have an energy plan -- to have a strategy to get us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil, " he said.
This strategy has been conditioned on our expectation that the prices of oil and other commodities would ultimately stabilize, in part as the result of slowing global growth, and that this outcome, together with well-anchored inflation expectations and increased slack in resource utilization, would foster a return to price stability in the medium run.
And no matter what you hear from some folks in an election year, the key part of this strategy over the last three years has been to increase safe, responsible oil production here at home while also pursuing clean energy for the future.
Iowa, you can choose an energy plan written by and for the big oil companies, or you can choose an all-of-the above energy strategy for America. (Applause.) At a time when homegrown energy is creating new jobs right here in Iowa, when farmers are helping to create new biofuels, when once-shuttered factories are churning out new wind turbines -- (applause) -- my opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers.
But what I want to emphasize is that this announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from an economy that runs on fossil fuels and foreign oil to one that relies more on homegrown fuels and clean energy.
Oil-Dri Corp. ( ODC) showed up in the results of my value screening strategy. (The strategy is highlighted in the July AAII Journal First Cut column.) ODC trades at a price-earnings ratio of 17.0 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.7.
All of this is supportive for gold prices, and it may prompt people to buy the yellow metal as an inflation hedge as worries that the current high oil prices will last into the summer, said Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research and TD Securities.
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