Javier Blas
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Japan could redraw the global oil map (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Among the world’s top fuel-consuming nations, Japan is the most energy insecure. Its import-dependency ratios are scary: It buys overseas 99.9 per cent of the oil it needs; 99.7 per cent of the coal; and 97.8 per cent of the natural gas. So Tokyo springs into action after every major energy shock to reassess its supply sources, making it a bellwether of global trends. The direction it’s signalling
War and drought: Another critical oil waterway is about to close (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. With apologies to Oscar Wilde, to lose one critical waterway may be regarded as misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Of course, we’re long past carelessness and are now barrelling toward disaster, with three already lost (the Strait of Hormuz, the Black Sea ports and the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandeb) and a fourth poised to join their ranks: the mighty Rhine. The river, which stretches acros
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