Is our addiction to oil worth the candle?
Audio 29:30
An oil refinery owned by Aramco, Saudi Arabia.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
By: Adrien Delgrange
1 min
It is the first source of energy in the world: oil.
Oil is omnipresent in our lives.
It mainly allows us to move - air, sea, road transport - or to move the products we consume.
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Moreover, many of the products that surround us are made from petroleum.
Plastics, solvents, cosmetics, rubbers, adhesives, bitumen and even medicines.
In short, so many non-exhaustive examples that illustrate this dependence on oil.
Oil which is more and more expensive, at nearly 90 dollars, the price of a barrel of Brent this week, it is unheard of for more than seven years, a curve of the prices of black gold which could well still to be upward.
Why is the price of oil rising now?
With what consequences for the consumer?
Can we expect a drop?
Isn't this the time to speed up the ecological transition?
- Matthieu Auzanneau
, director of
Shift Project,
energy transition think tank, co-author of the book
Oil decline is near, Seuil
and
L'or noir, the great history of oil
published by La Découverte
- Philippe Sébille-Lopez, director of
Geopolia
, specialist in energy geopolitics, author of the book
Geopolitics of oil,
published by Armand Colin
- Pierre Terzian,
director of the review
Pétrostratégies
.
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