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...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...
...subject of a four-night, eight-hour documentary series on PBS. Based on Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-prizewinning book (with Yergin himself serving as principal commentator), the series uses all the familiar tricks of the TV historian's trade -- old photos and film clips, offscreen narration combined with onscreen talking heads -- to make the subject come alive. Which it does marvelously: The Prize is TV's equivalent of a great read...
...nonfiction award went to The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, energy specialist Daniel Yergin's best-selling history of oil and how it has misshaped culture in the U.S., from fast food to foreign policy. The Pulitzer Board also voted a special award to Art Spiegelman, editor of the avant-garde graphic magazine Raw, for his unusual Maus tales, an autobiographical chronicle in comic-book form about the Holocaust, its survivors and their children in which Jews are portrayed as mice and Nazis as cats...
...Yergin said that he has no immediate ideas for a new book, and that he will relax a bit in the near future. "I feel a need to catch my breath," he said...