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• Fri Dec 27 09:12:00 CST 2002 -- HOPE FOR 2003 LIES IN FORECASTS FOR LITTLE CHANGE
  The oil and gas business is about to get better.
• Fri Dec 20 10:12:00 CST 2002 -- 'TERRIBLE MISTAKE' SHOULD COST LOTT HIS LEADERSHIP POST
  The oil and gas industry should support a rapidly developing effort in the US Senate to displace Trent Lott (R-Miss.) as majority leader.
• Fri Dec 13 09:12:00 CST 2002 -- VENEZUELAN CRISIS RAISES QUESTION: WHO'S UNSTABLE?
  Venezuela's crisis shines light on a common distortion of perspective in discussions about US energy policy.
• Fri Dec 06 15:12:00 CST 2002 -- US FAVORS HARD, COSTLY CHOICES ON GAS SUPPLY
  It's only a coincidence. But it reflects a US political prejudice that endlessly obstructs policy-making on energy.
• Wed Nov 27 14:11:00 CST 2002 -- THE PRESTIGE SPILL RAISES QUESTIONS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
  Much can be said about the sinking on Nov. 19 of the Prestige tanker and consequent spill of fuel oil off northwestern Spain.
• Fri Nov 22 09:11:00 CST 2002 -- BUSH MAKES RIGHT MOVE IN REFUTING ANTI-ISLAM TALK
  US President George W. Bush made a proper and necessary move Nov. 13 when he made clear that his country is not at war with Islam.
• Fri Nov 15 13:11:00 CST 2002 -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER WILL FOCUS POLITICAL BELIEFS
  Republicans in the US Congress and White House should worry. The Democrats have started their comeback.
• Fri Nov 08 12:11:00 CST 2002 -- OIL, GAS INDUSTRY ACCOUNTS FOR 2% OF POLITICAL GIVING
  Contributions from the oil and gas industry represented 2% of estimated donations to the candidates who sought positions in the US Senate and House of Representatives on Nov. 5.
• Fri Nov 01 15:11:00 CST 2002 -- BUSH SHOULD RESPOND TO SUSPICION OF MOTIVE ON IRAQ
  The administration of US President George W. Bush would do itself a favor and the world a service by directly addressing a point of high suspicion concerning Iraq.
• Fri Oct 25 13:10:00 CDT 2002 -- ELECTION IN BAHRAIN AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD DEMOCRACY
  An election important to the oil and gas industry took place Oct. 24.
• Fri Oct 18 14:10:00 CDT 2002 -- CONGRESS SHOULD CUT SPENDING, BOOST WEALTH CREATION
  The vanishing federal budget surplus has raised cries for repeal of cuts in income taxation that began last year. But a Heritage Foundation analyst thinks politicians should find a different culprit.
• Fri Oct 11 15:10:00 CDT 2002 -- FREEZING OIL PRICES THE WRONG RESPONSE TO MILITARY ACTION
  A large step toward new military action against Iraq provides the occasion for a reminder to major oil companies: Don't freeze retail prices of oil products.
• Fri Oct 04 10:10:00 CDT 2002 -- OIL-SECURITY KEY IS VOLUME FLOWING FREELY IN TRADE
  The Russia-US energy summit in Houston Oct. 1-2 featured repeated reference to US reliance on oil from the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in particular.
• Fri Sep 27 12:09:00 CDT 2002 -- WITH IRAQ, IT'S TIME TO TAKE NAMES, MAKE LISTS
  It's time to stop talking and start taking names.
• Fri Sep 20 12:09:00 CDT 2002 -- SENATE BILL STUDY FOR API TOUTS WRONG SET OF SAVINGS
  Casual reading of a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute on proposed fuels legislation makes costs of an ethanol mandate in gasoline look acceptable.
• Fri Sep 13 15:09:00 CDT 2002 -- BUSH'S IRAQ SPEECH STIRS QUESTIONS ABOUT UN'S AUTHORITY
  The Sept. 12 speech by US President George W. Bush to the United Nations left the futures of two regimes in doubt.
• Fri Sep 06 13:09:00 CDT 2002 -- FERC ON DANGEROUS GROUND WITH MOVE TOWARD SECRECY
  The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has strayed into dangerous territory with its proposal to limit access to information on energy infrastructure.
• Fri Aug 30 12:08:00 CDT 2002 -- EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING DISSENT PERPLEXING
  "…When a country that emits 25% of the world's greenhouse gases acts as an uninterested, sometimes hostile bystander in the environmental debate, it looks like unbearable arrogance to many people abroad."
• Fri Aug 23 12:08:00 CDT 2002 -- HOW CAN FORSAKEN REVENUE BE GOOD FOR CALIFORNIA?
  A state government in a fiscal crisis would never spend money in order rid itself of a revenue source—would it?
• Fri Aug 16 12:08:00 CDT 2002 -- SLAP-DASH ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN WACO A STUNT THAT FLOPPED
  Here's the best news going about the US economy: the slap-dash economic summit in Waco, Tex., on Aug. 13 can't do any real harm.