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• 12/30/2004 -- TERRORISTS SHOW IRAQI WAR CENTRAL TO ANTITERRORISM
  Among all the arguments about the war in Iraq, one of the most divisive rages over this question: Do the ouster of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and ensuing combat constitute part of the war against terrorism or a distraction from it?
• 12/23/2004 -- OIL SUPPLY NOT WHAT'S THREATENED BY YUKOS DRAMA
  While there's plenty to regret in Russia's expropriation of core OAO Yukos assets, the supposed threat to security of US oil supply deserves far less worry than it receives.
• 12/10/2004 -- Reason for Annan to quit should be UN, not US
  The administration of US President George W. Bush was right to declare on Dec. 9 that it's not pushing for the resignation of United Nations Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan.
• 12/03/2004 -- Scandal-ridden United Nations needs new leader
  The question is not whether Kofi Annan should resign as secretary general of the United Nations. The question is why he hasn't done so already.
• 11/24/2004 -- US should change a leasing policy based on ignorance
  With limits on supply asserting themselves in oil and gas markets, curiosity runs high about how much fluid hydrocarbon remains to be found and produced.
• 11/15/2004 -- Budget caution averts panic over oil price slide
  The price of crude oil has fallen by more than $7/bbl in 3 weeks. Shouldn't oil companies be canceling projects, laying off workers, and shedding physical assets? Is a $7/bbl slide no longer sufficient to shove industry managers into scorched-earth mode?
• 11/06/2004 -- UAE defies west's stereotype of the Middle East
  It is misleading to describe all of the Middle East in terms applicable only to the region's most violent and oppressive countries.
• 10/29/2004 -- It's no crisis that the US and Europe have issues
  As an issue in US general election on Nov. 2, friction between the US and Europe won't be decisive.
• 10/22/2004 -- Hydraulic fracing assault just a political trick
  Just in time for general elections, four congressional Democrats and one independent have concocted an environmental issue out of technical complexity, ignorance, and fear.
• 10/15/2004 -- US producers win long-sought relief for marginal wells
  Congress can act constructively on energy and doesn't need omnibus legislation to do it.
• 10/08/2004 -- Critical report might obscure US air-quality gains
  A report critical of US Environmental Protection Agency efforts to reduce ground-level ozone pollution can create a faulty impression.
• 10/04/2004 -- US foot-dragging on LNG producing a scare scenario
  The comforting feature of scare scenarios is that they seldom come true.
• 09/27/2004 -- Need for energy the best gauge of spending levels
  Concern has arisen that oil and gas companies aren't spending money fast enough.
• 09/17/2004 -- OPEC reports highlight confusion in energy news
  Here's a public-education challenge for the oil and gas industry: Teach journalists the difference between production quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and actual production.
• 09/13/2004 -- Election run-up likely to raise violence in Iraq
  Elections raise prospects for a further escalation of violence and more disruption to oil flow in and from Iraq.
• 09/03/2004 -- Bush's convention energy statement brief, puzzling
  That neither candidate felt obliged to offer more than brief energy promises is unusual in a period of elevated prices for oil, gas, and electricity.
• 08/27/2004 -- Washington should be planning for exit from Iraq
  The US government should plan better for its departure from Iraq than it apparently did for the occupation.
• 08/13/2004 -- Chronic suspicion clouds thinking on oil price behavior
  Unsold oil makes no money for oil producers. This insight somehow eludes adherents to the chronic suspicion that high oil prices can result only from withheld supply.
• 08/06/2004 -- Prices of crude, gasoline shattering suspicious myth
  According to the myth, the gasoline price moves in step with crude on upturns but not downturns because of an evil urge of gasoline sellers to take advantage of their customers.
• 07/30/2004 -- Environment helped by repairs to Clinton's lurches
  Among polemical straw men slain at the Democratic National Convention July 26-29 was a beauty smitten by former President Bill Clinton.