The recent collapse in oil prices is a mixed blessing: from the vantage point of the Caribbean the implications are perplexing and disturbing When I moved to Trinidad in 2009, a country blessed with a flourishing hydrocarbon industry, I marvelled at the fact that it cost barely £10 to fill my car with petrol. But global oil prices were hovering … Continue reading →
27 January 2015 by Matt Bishop
Categories: Debt, Economics, Environment, Finance, Global crisis, SPERI Comment, trade, USA
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Tags: Caribbean Energy Security Summit, hydrocarbons, oil, Trinidad, Venezuela
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The new geopolitical economy of oil in the Americas
The recent collapse in oil prices is a mixed blessing: from the vantage point of the Caribbean the implications are perplexing and disturbing When I moved to Trinidad in 2009, a country blessed with a flourishing hydrocarbon industry, I marvelled at the fact that it cost barely £10 to fill my car with petrol. But global oil prices were hovering … Continue reading →
27 January 2015 by Matt Bishop
Categories: Debt, Economics, Environment, Finance, Global crisis, SPERI Comment, trade, USA | Tags: Caribbean Energy Security Summit, hydrocarbons, oil, Trinidad, Venezuela | Leave a comment