The New Map Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

A story you tell in your book, The New Map, is that there's been a real dramatic shift in the energy production markets from it being OPEC, the oil production cartel basically, and non-OPEC to what you now call the big three.

Secondly, and the one that I do write about in the new map is I was at this thing called the St. Petersburg International Energy Forum.

And there's a picture in the new map of the first Nord Stream pipeline being built, and it shows Chancellor Merkel and the EU people and then Russian President Medvedev all with big smiles on their face, you know, turning the knobs, the wheel to start the flow of gas into Germany.

Well, I think there were maybe two or three is that geopolitics is going to continue to interact with energy. I spent a lot of time in the book actually focused on Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and natural gas in Europe.

The other thing I spent a lot of time in the book on was China, the US, and energy and geopolitics.

The other is that we're in an energy transition, trying to do it in a more compressed time than in the past, and to be realistic about the challenges and what has to be done.