Entries by Peter Tertzakian

Thumbs Up for Canada

  Who should be the supplier of choice for the world’s 100-million-barrel-a-day oil needs? Should there be a merit order ascribed to producers? We rank ballroom dancers and wannabe singers on television. Restaurants, hotels, videos, and even doctors are thumbs up and down on social media. So why wouldn’t we rate oil-producing countries too? For […]

OPEC’s Carbon Tax

  It’s a worldwide carbon tax that every post-Paris-Agreement policy wonk could hope for: The equivalent of a C$ 70 per-tonne-of-CO2 tax on gasoline. We can’t attribute the levy to any environmental political will. Oil markets can be thanked for ratcheting up the price of a West Texas barrel by $20 over the past nine […]