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• 03/15/2002 -- SOFT MOVE ON CAFE STANDARDS GOOD FOR INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
  Disparaged as a victory for auto-industry lobbyists, congressional rejection of a plan to tighten fuel-economy standards for US motor vehicles represents a triumph for individual choice.
• 03/08/2002 -- BP CHALLENGES LINK BETWEEN POLITICAL GIVING, INFLUENCE
  BP has the right idea about throwing money at politics.
• 03/01/2002 -- SAUDI ARABIA'S PEACE PLAN WELCOME, IMPORTANT, STUNNING
  Saudi Arabia's overture for peace between Israelis and Palestinians is welcome, important, and stunning.
• 02/22/2002 -- TERRORIST MURDER TESTS AXIS OF EVIL
  Evil or not? That's the question.
• 02/15/2002 -- ENERGY DERIVATIVES DIDN'T CAUSE CALIFORNIA CRISIS
  The political feeding frenzy over Enron Corp. is summoning the worst from the US Senate.
• 02/07/2002 -- DEREGULATION'S BAD AND GOOD SIDES
  Economic health of the US and world has arrived at an intersection between the good and bad forces of deregulation.
• 01/31/2002 -- ENERGY POLICY INFLUENCE AND OTHER EXAGGERATIONS
  It's long past difficult to separate substance from hyperbole in the Enron Corp. controversy.
• 01/25/2002 -- OLD VS. WISHFUL THINKING ON ENERGY
  Energy policy-making in the US has become a fight against wishful thinking.
• 01/18/2002 -- A RUSH TO REGULATE LIKELY AFTER ENRON'S CRASH
  A rush to regulate will naturally follow the mess over Enron Corp.
• 01/11/2002 -- ENRON'S A FIASCO, NOT A BUSH SCANDAL
  Controversy has erupted over links between the administration of US President George W. Bush and bankrupt and beleaguered Enron Corp. The lusty aura of scandal is everywhere.
• 01/04/2002 -- FPSO APPROVAL FOR GULF OF MEXICO AN IMPORTANT STEP
  It was so long in coming and so certain to occur that the oil and gas industry might not have taken appropriate note of what the US Minerals Management Service did on the last day of 2001.