By Gary M. Zatzman
The petroleum area is potentially the biggest and such a lot dominant fiscal zone within the globalized financial system. despite the fact that, for purposes explored during this publication, even if not one of the present monetary improvement versions healthy this region some time past and practice even much less this day, no passable substitute has provided itself. This e-book highlights the real the reason why present versions fail to foretell strength pricing with moderate accuracy, and ventures into environmental and different issues of oil and gasoline creation and linked monetary judgements mounting throughout either built in addition to constructing economies.
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This was as much, if not more, a function of politics and economics — specifically: conscious decisions by Britain's ruling elite to put off investments that would have upgraded the technological base and skill levels of its domestic economy in order to pay for participation in two world wars, cover the rapidly increasing costs of retaining a global empire, delay Indian independence indefinitely, maintain a global merchant fleet and prop u p the pound sterling as the reserve currency 34 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRICING of international trade — than it was of geological and-or geographical factors connected to the coal resource base itself.
20 In social and economic affairs no less than in matters involving physical nature, it is necessary, as well as logical and just, to pursue and aim to achieve that which is sustainable. 2 Outline of the Contents of this Volume O N E continues the "definitional spadework" begun in this Introductory Chapter. "Fundamental notions" specifically CHAPTER 20 For more about this, see the discussion of "scientific disinformation" in Chapter 2 infra. INTRODUCTION 31 germane to the basics of the science of energy sources are discussed in the context of energy pricing.
The energy product of a futures contract at the time of sale is without any actual, extant reality: at the time of sale, the said energy has not yet been produced. Such a condition is rife with ripple effects and other consequences throughout an economic system dependent fundamentally on actually available supplies of refined energy commodities. , what has happened as a result to how energy is priced? If (and only if) energy sources were to become priced on a basis consistent with the science attending their development and production; and if that science were elaborated consistent with what nature already provides, manages and disposes rather than on an allegedly costeffective / short-term-profitable basis provided by conventional refining and chemical and petroleum engineering practice — then (and only then) could energy pricing based on nature-science provide a flexible and sophisticated regulator of an entire economy.