Sustainable Energy Pricing -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 Requirements of a Sustainable Energy Pricing Model -- 0.1.1 Some General Issues -- 0.1.2 Sustainability Criteria and Economic Theory -- 0.1.2.1 Sustainability for whom? -- 0.1.3 The Basis of Change and the Conditions of Change -- 0.1.4 Linearities that Fail to Straighten Anything Out -- 0.1.5 The Information/Disinformation Nexus -- 0.1.6 Perception, Truth and Aphenomenality -- 0.2 Outline of the Contents of this Volume -- 1 Fundamental Notions -- 1.1 "Energy Crunch" or: The Problems and Issues of Modeling an Energy Price -- 1.1.1 Commodification: The General Capital-centred Theory -- 1.1.2 Energy as Social Product -- 1.1.3 Cultural Bias and Energy Price Modeling -- 1.1.4 Commodification: The Special Theory of Modern-day Time Compression -- 1.2 Matter, Energy, and Efficiency from Scientific Standpoint -- 1.3 Truth as a Scientific Frame of Reference -- 1.3.1 Eurocentric Distortion of Scientific Truth as a Frame of Reference -- 1.4 Phenomenally-based Sustainability: The Nature-science Criterion -- 1.5 Value Assessment, Value Addition and Phenomenally-based Energy Pricing -- 1.5.1 The Role of Value Assessment and Value Addition -- 1.6 Newtonian 'Mechanism' and Mystification of How Value is Transformed into Price -- 1.7 Risk Assessment & Management and Aphenomenal Energy Pricing -- 1.7.1 Energy Pricing based on Fictions: The Case of Enron -- 1.8 The Temporal Criterion of Long-term Sustainability and its Implications -- Documents -- A. Timeline of Critical Events for Enron in the Period August 2001 to December 2001 -- B. Enron Segment and Stock Market Performance 1993-2000 -- C. The Temporal Horizon In Which Diligence Can Become Undue -- D. Darwinian Pessimism and the Foreshortening of Temporal Horizons -- E. Enron and the Foreshortening of Temporal Horizons.

2 Newtonian Mechanism and The Deconstruction of Scientific Disinformation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 What is the Issue? -- 2.2 Einstein's Relativity and Newton's Mechanism Compared -- 2.3 Newton's First Assumption -- 2.3.1 First Level of Rectification of Newton's First Assumption -- 2.3.2 Second Level of Rectification of Newton's First Assumption -- 2.3.2.1 Can We Take for Granted that Masswill Remain Constant? -- 2.4 Fundamental Assumptions of Electromagnetic Theory -- 2.4.1 Can Energy Propagate Throughout Space in the Absence of Mass? -- 2.5 The Engineering Approach and Its Significance -- 2.6 First Conclusions -- 2.7 Continuity and Linearity -- 2.7.1 Confusion Twice Confounded -- 2.7.2 It's Really About Time... -- 2.7.3 "Laws of Motion", "Natural Law" & Questions of Mutability -- 3 Offshore Networks of Control: Providing Short-Term Multi-Entity International Oil and Gas Plays with a Guarantee -- 4 Current Energy Pricing Models: Origins & Problems -- 4.1 Consumption without Production -- 4.1.1 Description of the Problem and its Visible Impacts -- 4.1.2 Disinforming Impacts of Consumption without Production -- 4.2 Imposed Energy Pricing -- 4.3 Inherent Features of the Current Energy-Pricing Model: Matters Affecting Individuals' Daily Existence -- 4.3.1 Introducing the R-D-R' Cycle -- 4.4 Societal Implications of the Current Energy-Pricing Model for the Long Term -- 4.4.1 Why Does the Writ of the "Competitive Advantage of Nations" Seem To Stop At the Shores of OPEC Member-States? -- 4.4.2 Disappearing the Source of Energy Commodities' Value Behind Scientifically Meaningless Discourses about "Rent" -- 4.4.3 How Comparative Pricing Theory & Cost-accounting Practices of the Oil & Gas Sector Further Confound Resource rent -- 4.5 Long-term vs Short-term Returns-on-investment [ROI] From Energy Exploration & Development.

4.5.1 An Oil-Sands Boom without Bust? -- 4.6 Resource "Renewability" and 'Sustainable Negative Rent' -- 5 The Role of Coal in the Modern Evolution of Energy Pricing -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Significance of Commodifying Labor-time & All Material Production - Including its Energy Source -- 5.2.1 Significance of the Napoleonic Wars -- 5.2.2 The Reform Act of 1832 -- 5.2.3 Britain & France Compared -- 5.2.4 Jevons as Ideologue of Coal & "Marginal Utility" -- 5.3 From "Law of Supply & Demand" (at the margin) to "Consumption without Production" -- Document -- A. History of U.S. Coal Use [extract] -- 6 Carbon Emission Credits - Theory & Practice -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 THEORY - Regime -- 6.1.2 THEORY - "Additionality" -- 6.1.3 THEORY - Sustainability and a "Universal Equivalent" -- 6.1.4 THEORY - Market -- 6.1.5 PRACTICE - Real-world Carbon Trading Mechanisms -- 6.1.6 PRACTICE - Some Real-world Emission-Reduction Scenarios Considered -- 6.1.7 PRACTICE - Criticisms and Shortcomings of Practical Carbon Credit Regimes -- 6.1.8 PRACTICE - Emissions Reduction Currency Systems -- Documents -- A. The Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism Gold Standard -- B. Thoughts on the Relative Merits of Cap-and-Trade Versus Emission Taxes for Controlling Carbon Emissions -- C. U.S. House Passes Repeal of EPA Carbon Rules Over White House Objections -- D. Carbon Trading: A Method for Preserving the Environment and Reducing Poverty -- E. Canadian Law with Regard to Carbon Emission Regulation -- F. Carbon Capture and Storage - Identified challenges to implementation -- G. North America Bets on "Carbon Capture and Storage" (CCS) -- H. Canadian Implications of U.S. Climate Change Regulation -- I. The Taxation of Tradable Permits -- J. Ottawa Unveils Carbon-offset System -- K. Ontario Introduces Cap-and-trade Legislation.

L. Canada Moves Forward on Domestic Emissions Trading Market -- M. Carbonmail? -- 7 "Peak Oil" and Other Fits of Pique Among Resource Economists -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Human Factor Social Consciousness & "Abstracting Absence" -- Document -- A. The Achnacarry Agreement and the "As Is" System -- B. The Entry of Kuwait onto the World Market -- C. Aramco and the Containment of Saudi Arabian Expansion -- D. Notes -- Bibliography -- Introductory Note -- I. Bibliography -- II. Websites -- Appendix -Disinformation in the Social & Historical Sciences: Concerning Time Functions and Sustainability of Resource Development -- A.l Introduction -- A.2 Detaching Canada's East Coast Fishery From Its History: Causes and Consequences -- A.3 The Mishandling of Temporal Factors Analysed as a Problem of Method -- A.4 Social Science and The Problem of Linearised Time -- A.5 Placing tLINEAR on Life Support -- A.6 Merchant's Capital - Key Historic Intangible of The East Coast Fishery -- A.7 The 800-Pound Gorilla -- Index.