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Why oil costs over $140 per barrel: the failure of leadership

Posted on July 07, 2008

Bush, Harper, Fukada, Brown, Merkel, Sarkozy and Berlusconi. The leaders of the G7 (+Russia) will meet this week in Japan. Their collective failure to reduce demand for oil, natural gas and coal within their respective economies is one of the main reasons energy prices are spiraling upwards out of control.[break]High oil pricesThe leaders of the G7 have been howling about high oil prices. They have been to Jeddah to beg OPEC to produce more oil. They have tried to blame speculators for bidding the price up. They do seem to understand that prices are high owing to a growing imbalance between su...

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