The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades (Energy Essay #9)

The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

The 1980’s and 1990’s were more than just big hair, personal computers, and the end of the cold war, the space shuttle, the internet, and MTV (back when it actually aired music videos). They were also times of racial strife, bankrupt farmers, savings and loans collapses, sexy cigars, Black Tuesday, and the first Gulf War. One of the key elements to the remarkable excesses of the two decades is one that is often overlooked; OPEC finally figured out how to manage oil prices.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid (Energy Essay #10)

It’s the Economy, Stupid

As the demand for commodities and more specifically, oil keeps rising, prices keep going up. To figure out what these higher prices mean to our economy, we must think about the basic underpinnings, the laws that govern how the economy works and the policies that affect it.
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