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• 12/22/2003 -- Gas-price study should include imposed supply limits
  Traders have manipulated prices in the past. Lawmakers have reason to ask if they're doing so now.
• 12/12/2003 -- Defense commitment essential to role in rebuilding Iraq
  The US Department of Defense made the right decision when it excluded from Iraqi reconstruction contracts companies based in countries opposing its operations.
• 12/05/2003 -- Bush makes right move with end to steel safeguards
  The official word is that a threatened trade war had nothing to do with the decision by US President George W. Bush to end steel tariffs 16 months ahead of schedule.
• 11/26/2003 -- California study supports view that fish like platforms
  In the late 1970s, states on the US East Coast successfully thwarted drilling in federal waters off their shores. To this day, leasing of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf remains closed.
• 11/21/2003 -- Prohibiting routes for arctic gas subverts energy policy
  The House-Senate conference committee that disgorged the omnibus energy bill the Senate rejected on Nov. 21 made half of a good decision on a pipeline that would carry natural gas southward from the North American Arctic.
• 11/14/2003 -- Energy bill light on resource access is no trophy
  Two and a half months after beginning work, Republican members of conference committee reconciling House and Senate energy bills reached agreement on Nov. 14.
• 11/07/2003 -- Bush should cut his losses and revoke steel tariffs
  US President George W. Bush has one way to escape a political mess he created in March 2002 by imposing tariffs as high as 30% on imported steel.
• 10/24/2003 -- Senate flubs chance to give legal system needed repair
  The US Senate has passed up a chance to remove a heavy and growing burden from the economy.
• 10/17/2003 -- Vote against OCS inventory subverts US energy policy
  Can there be any indication clearer than voluntary ignorance that Congress is misguided on energy policy?
• 10/10/2003 -- California needs new approach to OCS leasing, too
  California has a $38 billion public deficit, an economy weakened by companies fleeing excessive regulation and social mandates, and a highly taxed population understandably reluctant to surrender more of their wealth to the state.
• 10/03/2003 -- Gas supply crunch in us moderates hope for hydrogen
  Amid all the recent talk in Washington, DC, about natural gas, did anyone notice crust forming around the other fuel of the future? That, of course, would be hydrogen.
• 09/26/2003 -- Saudi outlet crucial to future exports of iraqi oil
  Saudi Arabia holds immense but largely overlooked influence over the future of oil exports, now severely bottlenecked, from Iraq.
• 09/19/2003 -- Saudi-Russian maneuvering links politics, commerce
  To decode recent maneuvering in the upper strata of petroleum politics, start here: The two American companies rumored to be preparing rival bids for a chunk of soon-to-merge Russian giants OAO Yukos and OAO Sibneft are paired-up former partners of the old Arabian-American Oil Co. (Aramco).
• 09/12/2003 -- Industry expertise crucial to energy policy-making
  Among disclosures in an August General Accounting Office report on the making of Bush administration energy policy, meetings between federal officials and representatives of the energy industry should be the least controversial.
• 09/05/2003 -- Uproar over NSR clarification looks like opportunism
  To hear environmentalists and their friends in Congress tell it, clarification by the Environmental Protection Agency of confusing emission regulations will devastate US air quality.
• 08/22/2003 -- Climate change needs more science, less salesmanship
  From the politics by which the US Senate passed comprehensive energy legislation this month, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) extracted the promise of a vote on a climate-change bill they sponsor.
• 08/15/2003 -- Will California send Schwarzenegger on quest for bail-out?
  Arnold Schwarzenegger could be the best thing to happen to California since Enron Corp.
• 08/08/2003 -- BLM takes step to improve access to federal land
  The Bureau of Land Management has taken an important step toward debottlenecking US energy supply.
• 08/03/2003 -- THERE'S NO FUTURE FOR A FUTURES MARKET IN TERRORISM
  If trading in terrorist attacks, assassinations, and coups typifies creativity at work within the US government on security, Americans should be, well, terrified.
• 07/25/2003 -- KILLINGS OF SADDAM'S SONS CLARIFY WORK REMAINING IN IRAQ
  Forces resistant to revival of Iraqi oil exports took three major casualties during the week of July 21.