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  • Will the US dinosaurs ever learn?

    The dinosaurs are back...... The new "green team" appointed by president-elect Barack Obama might, after all, turn out to be a dream team for the US chemicals industry. This is despite what some of the old disonaurs within the industry seem to think. A US energy policy needs to place a genuine...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-19-2008

  • The big challenges

    As delegates gather for this year's European Petrochemical Association meeting in the unreal world of Monaco (unrealf or 99.9 per cent recurring of us), I thought it was worth summarising some of the issues discussed on this blog over the last few months. We've dealt with: *Oil-price volatility...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2008

  • History will repeat itself

    It is September 2025 and the financial system has imploded due to the collapse in value of collaterised green obligations (CGOs). So how did we end up in this sorry state? Here is a guide to how the crisis developed: Governments (often sovereign wealth funds that had made a fortune from selling oil and...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008

  • The world is round after all

    I asked my boss two years ago what were his favourite business books. His list included The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman. Of course I rushed out and bought the book. It has sold by the truck load and was quoted by Mohamed Al-Mady of SABIC during his speech at...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Uncle Sam back from the dead?

    A very interesting report by McKinsey (you can sign up free for their online newsletter which only takes a minute) expands on the theme of reverse globalisation which I talked about last week. The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container has tripled since 2000 and labour cost increases have risen...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • Can I have those coconuts, please?

    This article, by David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock, says that it would take three million coconuts to power one flight from London to Amsterdam on 100% biofuels. Some of the comments posted at the end of this excellent article, first published in the New Scientists, agree with Strahan that...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Filled Up With Faith

    Only in America, surely. If I had made this up you wouldn't have believed me. Rocky Twyman (see picture above), Founder of the Pray For The Pump Movement, and his pals have been touring the US asking the big guy in the sky to intervene and bring down the price of gasoline. Watch Rocky and his fellow...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
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