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• 07/15/2005 -- IEA: Oil supply, demand adjusting to high prices
  The most difficult prediction to make about the oil market is the reversal of current trends. Most faulty forecasts trip over the temptation to believe current trends endure forever.
• 07/08/2005 -- US EXPLANATIONS DIVERGE OVER HIGH GASOLINE PRICES
  Two explanations of contrasting credibility emerged last month for why, beyond crude oil fundamentals, US gasoline prices are high.
• 07/02/2005 -- QUESTIONS HAUNT GLOBAL WARMING 'HOCKEY STICK'
  In quick succession, the science of global warming has pushed its way into politics, and politics has pushed back.
• 06/27/2005 -- FOCUS ON FOREIGN OIL BREEDING COSTLY PROPOSALS
  Much can be said about dependence on foreign oil, of course, little of it positive. But calling it a tax is a stretch.
• 06/17/2005 -- Government fuel choices costly in energy policy
  The making of energy policy is at its worst when policy-makers assign themselves responsibility for decisions best left to markets.
• 06/10/2005 -- Energy bills again hinge on oxygenate issues
  Energy legislation in the US hinges again on gasoline oxygenates.
• 06/03/2005 -- California seeks lead in global warming sacrifice
  California will show America the way on climate change.
• 05/23/2005 -- Foreign oil no reason to lose energy perspective
  US President George W. Bush is substituting politics for perspective on energy.
• 05/15/2005 -- Industry passes Ivan's test, prepares for next
  Nature gave the safety of offshore oil and gas operations a severe test last year.
• 05/06/2005 -- Bolivia threatens gas work with tax increase
  Bolivian lawmakers seem to want their country to remain one of Latin America's poorest and least developed.
• 04/29/2005 -- Missing pieces of the global warming story
  A pioneer of global-warming precaution has produced what he calls a "smoking gun" pointing to climate change of human origin.
• 04/22/2005 -- US energy bill wouldn't lower gasoline prices
  "Folks," Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) said after the US House of Representatives passed comprehensive energy legislation Apr. 21, "it's about gas prices, gas prices, gas prices."
• 04/15/2005 -- MTBE liability threat clouds US energy future
  Of all the complex issues facing lawmakers trying to fashion comprehensive energy legislation in the US, one should be simple to resolve: protection against defective-product litigation for makers of fuel containing ethanol or methyl tertiary butyl ether.
• 04/08/2005 -- Virginia veto, SEACOR highlight need for leasing
  With a deft political dodge late last month, Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner called attention to an offshore-access initiative that's intriguing but flawed.
• 04/02/2005 -- PRICE QUESTIONS: THE INTERESTING VS. THE IMPORTANT
  A jolting prediction from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, brings attention to the distinctions between interesting and important questions in a strong oil market.
• 03/24/2005 -- IN BP DISASTER, MARKET QUESTION EASY, OTHERS NOT
  In the news storm surrounding a refinery accident that kills 15 people and injures more than 100, market responses are incidental.
• 03/18/2005 -- The Senate takes a step for US energy supply
  The US on Mar. 16 took the first step in what could be a long hike toward a needed increase in domestic energy supply.
• 03/14/2005 -- UN critic Bolton a good selection as US ambassador
  For the beleaguered United Nations, brought to near extinction by virulent diplomacy, help is on the way.
• 03/07/2005 -- SACKED PRIME MINISTER HINTS AT PUTIN CHALLENGE
  Is Russia heading for an upscale version of Ukraine's late-2004 Orange Revolution?
• 02/25/2005 -- US AND EUROPE A PLANET APART ON KYOTO TREATY
  The Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change took effect Feb. 16 to celebration in Europe and indifference in the US.