{"id":169650,"date":"2025-09-30T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:42:32","slug":"why-the-most-oil-rich-country-cant-keep-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169650\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Most Oil-Rich Country Can\u2019t Keep the Lights On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">If you want an image of where the internal contradictions of the fossil fuel economy are headed as disruptive clean energy and a warming planet transform the 21st century, consider Kuwait. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidoun.org\/articles\/farida-al-sultan\" title=\"Culture in the Wake of the Kuwaiti Oil Boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">first real boomtown<\/a> of the 1960s Arab oil rush, its people have a richer endowment of crude than any other nation on earth. The 101.5 billion barrels of reserves are equivalent to about 23,000 barrels for every resident \u2014 more than double the next-placed country. At current prices, this geological inheritance works out at about $4.3 million per citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want an image of where the internal contradictions of the fossil fuel economy are headed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[76502,5098,15313,1397,59040,55458,80,5149,464,33316,632,90,56,5387,54,55,10976],"class_list":["post-169650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-celsius-sas","tag-clean-energy","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-government","tag-green","tag-infrastructure","tag-kuwait","tag-middle-east","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}