Royal Dutch Shell’s environmental record will come under renewed fire on Wednesday in two cases that will test the ability of aggrieved communities in Nigeria to use UK courts to hold the company to account.
Cheap oil will be sticking around for a while. That reality is wreaking havoc and causing uncertainty for some governments and businesses, while creating financial windfalls for others.
Almost every day, even if you don’t own a car, you probably buy something made from oil. Usually we don’t think about where that money goes — because the answer, at least some of the time, is that it ends up lining the pockets of some of the world’s deadliest people.
In December 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. The oil price at the time was at its peak of $101 a barrel.
“Africa really is the last automotive frontier,” Mike Whitfield, Nissan’s head of sub-Saharan Africa, said in an interview. “You still have a very un-motorized population.”
For thousands of years, there was a commodity that people across the globe, from China to Rome to Texas, fought bloody conflicts to secure. A product that was used to pay solders and decided the outcomes of wars. No, I’m not talking about gold — I’m talking about salt.
Saudi Arabia. United Arab Emirates. Iran. Iraq. Kuwait. Nigeria. Qatar.
That may look like a list of seven random countries, but they all have something sinister in common. Namely, being generally awful places for women to live. Read more →
I decided on the raw power of a corn-ethanol-fueled McLaren 12C Spider with a twin-turbo 3.8 liter V8 engine. In practical terms, this means it can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds.
Tesla’s showing all the signs of a company in trouble: bleeding cash, securitized assets, and mounting inventory. It’s the trifecta of doom for any automaker, and anyone paying attention probably saw this coming a mile away.
Luckily these warnings have come far before any real-world auto hacks with flesh-and-blood consequences.
