OGPSS - future natural gas supplies and Cyprus

This post began as a view on the developments in Cyprus, and I am grateful to Gail for the suggestion, and it is my fault that it morphed a ...

High Speed Rail - Europe and the American Election

It was President Obama who famously said, after the 2008 vote that “Elections have Consequences.” Well two years later that dictum still ap...

P49. Pick Points

Sometimes there are situations that don’t know when to quit. So it is with the Ukraine:Russia dispute over gas. Today Prime Minister Putin...

P39. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: China is going to need a lot of oil, and to ensure it gets it, it has just loaned the Russian oil c...