China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …

. In an ever more uncertain world, energy policy increasingly finds itself on the front line of election politics …

: First, the "true" Peak Oil debate about when world-wide, long-term oil production will follow the downward slope of the … 2003; and third, the long-term national security implications of the Western world's increasing dependence on oil and …. This Outlook projects that the world will use 50% more energy in 2030 than in 2005, even with energy efficiency …

China’s need for expensive, foreign imports will only get worse. Meanwhile, the United States – once the world’s largest … importer of oil – has become the world’s largest oil producer, with only one-half as many drilling rigs as China. The …