Petroleum rent collection has been an on-going area of interest to Petroleum Economists, investors, and exhaustible resource owners (governments) and the question of what an efficient rent collection design or system should be is also an ongoing issue in the oil industry. This latter question is...

pt. 1. Macroeconomic and distributional dimensions of energy shocks -- pt. 2. Social, local and environmental impacts of changes in the energy market -- pt. 3. The impacts of bio and alternative fuels -- pt. 4. Conclusions.