Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Reactions to the Iea's World Energy Outlook

Reactions to the Iea's World Energy Outlook 07_Gault 14/5/07 3:50 pm Page 431 John C. Gault Geneva The assumption that Gulf OPEC countries will expand their oil production capacities to meet any projected call on OPEC has been a weakness of long term forecasts (and not only those published by the IEA) for as long as I can remember. Dr. AlHajji’s criticisms here are pertinent but some are not new. My own reaction to the IEA World Energy Outlook 2006 is slightly different. I find the recent World Energy Outlook useful and, indeed, a refreshing and overdue departure from past editions. Firstly, I do not generally interpret published forecasts as predictions of what will actually occur in the future. Such forecasts have the more limited purpose of demonstrating the logical consequences over time of a set of clearly-identified assumptions, ceteris paribus. Secondly, I generally assume that a published forecast reflects some sort of agenda or bias on the part of the author(s). In the case of the IEA, its advocacy of the interests of energy-importing countries is clear and unabashed. There is nothing wrong with this, but consumers of IEA publications must always bear this in mind. Subject to these two caveats, there is much to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Energy & Environment SAGE

Reactions to the Iea's World Energy Outlook

Gault, John C.
Energy & Environment , Volume 18 (3-4): 2 – Jul 1, 2007
Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/reactions-to-the-iea-s-world-energy-outlook-5i8Hwt0suA
Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2007 SAGE Publications
ISSN
0958-305X
eISSN
2048-4070
DOI
10.1260/095830507781076220
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

07_Gault 14/5/07 3:50 pm Page 431 John C. Gault Geneva The assumption that Gulf OPEC countries will expand their oil production capacities to meet any projected call on OPEC has been a weakness of long term forecasts (and not only those published by the IEA) for as long as I can remember. Dr. AlHajji’s criticisms here are pertinent but some are not new. My own reaction to the IEA World Energy Outlook 2006 is slightly different. I find the recent World Energy Outlook useful and, indeed, a refreshing and overdue departure from past editions. Firstly, I do not generally interpret published forecasts as predictions of what will actually occur in the future. Such forecasts have the more limited purpose of demonstrating the logical consequences over time of a set of clearly-identified assumptions, ceteris paribus. Secondly, I generally assume that a published forecast reflects some sort of agenda or bias on the part of the author(s). In the case of the IEA, its advocacy of the interests of energy-importing countries is clear and unabashed. There is nothing wrong with this, but consumers of IEA publications must always bear this in mind. Subject to these two caveats, there is much to

Journal

Energy & Environment – SAGE

Published: Jul 1, 2007

There are no references for this article.