Word: yergin
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...Indeed, traders are watching to see whether OPEC, which has been unable to police its members in the past, can deliver the promised reductions when it meets on March 23 in Vienna. "Oil exporters are trying to build an emergency bridge to the 21st century," explains Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "If OPEC had not reached this agreement, or if it does not stick, the alternative will be more low prices and economic turmoil...
...Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw are co-authors of The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World...
...year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social scientists to identify the serious, long-term costs of divorce...
...road. Nor will the 700,000 bbl. a day that Baghdad will be allowed to sell to raise hard currency for food and medicine amount to more than a 1% boost in worldwide oil production. Nonetheless, experts say Iraqi oil should help lower U.S. pump prices by midsummer. Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, estimates that gas prices could fall as much as 10' per gal. before the end of the driving season...
...Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Massachusetts and author of The Prize, is more cautious about forecasting the coming solar era; he has watched market pressures obliterate past predictions about the future of energy. He also notes that oil and coal companies are not standing idle but are vigorously trying to lower costs and provide cleaner- burning fuels. "The critical question," Yergin contends, "is whether any innovation meets the test of the marketplace." Older and perhaps wiser than they were in the 1970s, the apostles of renewable energy claim they are now poised to meet that test...