Will Rising Oil Prices Undermine the Recovery?

Will Rising Oil Prices Undermine the Recovery?

Oil Reserves by Country as of Nov 20, 2010

Oil Reserves by Country
Top Twenty Countries
J.C. Grant, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Nov 20, 2010

This article ranks oil reserves by country according to estimates by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).


This is a table of the data presented in the article.


Oil Reserves by Country


This pie chart shows the national daily consumption, in barrels, of the twenty largest producing countries.


This pie chart shows the percent of total global oil reserves controlled by each of the twenty most important producing countries.

The New Great Game Reading List 2006-2010

This is my reading list on the subject. The letter in parentheses is my "grade" for the book. Two of the books are coded [DNF] meaning that I didn't finish reading them.

America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies [Paperback] by George Friedman c2005 (A+)

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak [Paperback] by Kenneth S. Deffeyes c2006 (A+)

Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum [Paperback] by Michael T. Klare c2005 (B)

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization [Paperback] by John Robb and James Fallows c2008 (A+)

The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time [Paperback] by Antonia Juhasz c2007 (A+)

Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era [Hardcover] by Jeremy Leggett c2001 (A+)

The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel [Paperback] by Stephen Leeb and Glen Strathy c2007 (B)

The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe [Hardcover] by Jeremy Leggett c2005 (A+)

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World [Paperback] by Paul Roberts c2005 (A)

Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning [Paperback] by George Monbiot, c2009 (A)

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties [Paperback] by Craig Unger c2004 (A+)

The Hydrogen World View [Paperback] by Dr. Roger E. Billings c2000 (B)

The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate [Paperback] by Joseph J. Romm c2005 (B+)

Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives [Hardcover] by Edwin Black c2008 (C) [DNF]

It's the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way [Hardcover] by Linda Mcquaig c2006 (A+)

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction [Paperback] by Terry Tamminen c2008 (A+)

The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia [Paperback] by Lutz Kleveman c2004 (A)

The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis [Paperback] by Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb c2005 (B)

Opportunity Investing: How To Profit When Stocks Advance, Stocks Decline, Inflation Runs Rampant, Prices Fall, Oil Prices Hit the Roof, ... and Every Time in Between [Hardcover] by Gerald Appel c2006 (B)

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--On Earth and Beyond [Hardcover] by Martin J. Rees c2003 (A)

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies [Paperback] by Richard Heinberg c2005 (A+)

Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar [Paperback] by William R. Clark c2005 (A+)

Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World [Paperback] by Richard Heinberg c2004 (B+)

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power [Paperback] Daniel Yergin c2008 [DNF]

A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World [Paperback] by Peter Tertzakian c2007 (A)

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy [Paperback] by Matthew R. Simmons c2006 (A)