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• 12/30/2005 -- GEOGRAPHIC DIVIDE ON GLOBAL WARMING RAISES QUESTION
  That a geographic pattern of opinion has become part of the controversy over global warming suggests a what-if mind experiment that might be illuminating.
• 12/16/2005 -- PROJECT KUWAIT HEADS FOR VOTE IN MID-JANUARY
  While mid-December attention has focused on historic parliamentary elections in Iraq, another important vote is shaping up to the south for mid-January.
• 12/09/2005 -- ENERGY POLITICS WON'T RESOLVE PEAK-OIL ISSUE
  When science converges with politics, anything can happen. For that reason, congressional hearings on the peak-oil question are cause for worry.
• 12/02/2005 -- WASHINGTON PLAYS GOTCHA WITH OIL COMPANY EXECS
  Gotcha. It's a game they play in Washington, DC.
• 11/25/2005 -- OPEC PRODUCTION CAPACITY RISING, IEA REPORT SAYS
  While a vigorous debate proceeds among specialists about how much petroleum the world has left to produce, the number of greatest immediate importance is production capacity.
• 11/18/2005 -- SIMPLE QUESTIONS CAN CALL OFF HUNTS FOR SMOKING GUNS
  In the matter of smoking guns, great wariness is in order. The hunt for them, including one having to do with oil, makes US politics goofy.
• 11/11/2005 -- OIL-PRICE HEARING A DARK MOMENT FOR FREE-MARKET PARTY
  It was good to see, in this week's congressional inquisition of oil company executives, that Republicans still have among them someone willing to defend markets.
• 11/04/2005 -- ALL PERSPECTIVES CAN'T BE RIGHT ON OIL, GAS PRICES
  Three interesting perspectives on prices of oil and natural gas are crisscrossing through the news.
• 10/28/2005 -- ON ENERGY, US NEEDS LEADERSHIP, NOT DEMAGOGUERY
  Extraordinarily high profits by oil and gas companies occur rarely and never last long. Energy mistakes by Congress happen frequently and hurt the US for years.
• 10/14/2005 -- HOUSE PASSES HALF A GESTURE ON US REFINING
  Gestures don't build refineries. Half-gestures build even fewer of them.
• 10/07/2005 -- QUESTION FOR DOE: DOES ENERGY HOG GET SUV DEDUCTION?
  With good reason and constructive intent, the US government has deployed all the energy-saving persuasion at its disposal.
• 09/23/2005 -- HURRICANES SHOW OIL MARKET ISN'T JUST ABOUT CRUDE
  As the second massive hurricane in less than a month plows across producing areas of the Gulf of Mexico and pulls within hours of major US refining centers, the need to adjust thinking about the oil market deserves notice.
• 09/16/2005 -- INDUSTRY SHOULD COORDINATE ITS KATRINA RELIEF
  If industry profits in a supply emergency must become a political issue then industry spending on emergency responses deserves attention, too.
• 09/09/2005 -- US HAS SURPLUS OF EXPERTS ON OIL BUSINESS
  Suddenly, the US teems with experts on the oil and gas business.
• 09/02/2005 -- 'GOUGING' ANXIETY IS JUST OUTRAGE OVER ARITHMETIC
  The problem with assumptions about gasoline price gouging is obsession over price to the exclusion of sales volume.
• 08/27/2005 -- HELP IS AT HAND FOR SERVICE HURT BY GASOLINE COST
  Fuel costs must be crushing the services that mow grass, edge sidewalks, and trim bushes of US suburbia.
• 08/12/2005 -- INDUSTRY THUMPED FOR INCENTIVES IN ENERGY POLICY ACT
  The US oil industry is receiving a public drubbing over the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which US President George W. Bush signed into law Aug. 8.
• 08/05/2005 -- Capital freedom will survive the Unocal door-slam
  Congress growled. CNOOC Ltd. flinched. So Chevron Corp. will own Unocal Corp.
• 07/30/2005 -- MTBE liability bomb intolerable as energy policy
  Comprehensive energy legislation was an unfavorable arena in which to debate limited liability protection for makers of methyl tertiary butyl ether.
• 07/22/2005 -- Gasoline price answers neglect elevated costs
  To the question "Why are gasoline prices so high?" gushes much attention these days, not enough of it focused on an important part of the answer.