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Commentary: China’s building crash helps ease the Hormuz pain (opens the original)
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If filling up your car isn't even more expensive in the coming months, you should thank China's abandoned building sites, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion. SYDNEY: Just how little diesel can China get away with using? We’re in the process of finding out. The country’s refineries produced just 12.9 million tonnes of the fuel in June. Barring a couple of dips during the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s the smallest figure since 2010. Asphalt is in a similar place, back to roughly its lowest leve
Commentary: Fast fashion is about to get caught up in Hormuz (opens the original)
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The ripples from a petroleum shock have been quietly spreading into the apparel trade, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion. SYDNEY: You might think that missiles flying over the waters of the Strait of Hormuz were a world away from your closet full of fleece jackets, leggings and trainers. In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Most of your wardrobe is made of oil, in the form of polyester, nylon, spandex and other synthetic fibres. Though the ripples from a petroleum shock prop
Commentary: A better way to guard against the next oil crisis (opens the original)
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If governments want to make the most use of the reserves they’re building up, they should ensure their economies consume less crude, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion. SYDNEY: If you knew your local Coke factory was having chronic supply-chain problems, buying a bigger refrigerator to store more soda would be one way to deal with it. The better strategy, however, might be to switch to Pepsi instead. And yet the “bigger refrigerator” path is the one governments in Asia are following to pr
Commentary: Who’s really keeping fossil fuels alive? Taxpayers (opens the original)
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The public sector still invests most of its money in oil, gas and coal, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion. SYDNEY: To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that recognises the innate superiority of fossil fuels on the other. Follow the money, and you’ll see precisely the opposite picture. The share of private energy investment going into
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