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• Fri Dec 15 18:12:00 CST 2006 -- Lease bluster raises question about 'new cop'
  Discrediting oil companies for renegotiating deepwater leases that lack price thresholds is politically opportunistic.
• Fri Dec 08 16:12:00 CST 2006 -- Congress seethes about the wrong OCS money issue
  If Congress really cared about government OCS receipts it would allow more leasing of the OCS.
• Fri Dec 01 23:12:00 CST 2006 -- An open letter to the noble Iranian people
  Noble Iranians, Because your president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took the trouble to write a letter to US citizens—"noble Americans," in his words—a reciprocal gesture, albeit from a lesser office, seems appropriate.
• Fri Nov 24 11:11:00 CST 2006 -- OCS plan letter appeals to law, national interest
  US oil and gas producers and contractors have resorted to basics in their efforts to expand leasing of federal land offshore. They're appealing to law and national interest.
• Fri Nov 17 16:11:00 CST 2006 -- Energy represents a belief test for new party leaders
  Political-party leadership choices portend much about energy issues in the 110th Congress. In turn, energy choices will say much about what the parties believe.
• Fri Nov 10 15:11:00 CST 2006 -- Republicans let federal subsidy programs multiply
  Part of the reason the Republican Party lost control of Congress on Nov. 7 is that too many of its incumbents abandoned their principles.
• Fri Nov 03 15:11:00 CST 2006 -- Confusion evident in blast at OPEC about production
  It has long been a mystery how the US Congress can so consistently wander astray on oil and gas. Now we know. Guidance on the subject comes from the Joint Economic Committee.
• Fri Oct 20 15:10:00 CDT 2006 -- California oil tax would fund energy spending
  "Senseless" half describes a ballot initiative on which Californians will vote in November calling for a tax on oil to pay for state-sponsored energy.
• Fri Oct 13 15:10:00 CDT 2006 -- Shtokman surprise a reminder of BTC pipeline rebuke
  Russia's Oct. 9 turnabout on development of Shtokman gas and condensate field in the Barents Sea shows that the sword of pipeline politics has two edges.
• Fri Oct 06 13:10:00 CDT 2006 -- Who said crude wouldn't drop below $60/bbl?
  Suddenly, instead of asking how high the crude price might go, people are wondering about the bottom.
• Fri Sep 29 14:09:00 CDT 2006 -- Where's the money worry in US bans on OCS leasing?
  The US Congress deserves credit for its concern about those federal offshore oil and gas leases that lack price thresholds for deepwater royalty relief.
• Fri Sep 22 13:09:00 CDT 2006 -- Chavez employs 'fishing model' of geopolitics
  Call it the live-bait fishing model of geopolitics: first the gift, then the gaff.
• Fri Sep 15 14:09:00 CDT 2006 -- Reserves numbers aren't oil's only market perplexity
  Numbers about the oil and gas market aren't always what they seem to be.
• Fri Sep 08 22:09:00 CDT 2006 -- Cost and supply questions stalk hype on ethanol
  Inflated expectations are woven into the politics of ethanol.
• Fri Sep 01 15:09:00 CDT 2006 -- Contractor cites Iranian gunfire in rig dispute
  Global worry about his nuclear ambitions wasn't the only issue around which Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad performed diplomatic pirouettes last month.
• Fri Aug 25 15:08:00 CDT 2006 -- Bush offers more half-finished energy thoughts
  An important tool of politics is the half-finished thought. US President George W. Bush deploys it masterfully when he discusses oil.
• Fri Aug 18 12:08:00 CDT 2006 -- Professor links US fiscal woes, China-Unocal flap
  China's unsuccessful bid for a US oil company last year bodes ominously for American fiscal health, argues Laurence J. Kotlikoff, a Boston University economics professor.
• Fri Aug 11 15:08:00 CDT 2006 -- Writer explains war, terrorism in terms of chaos
  War in Lebanon and plans to blow airplanes out of the sky raise a simple but difficult question: Why?
• Fri Aug 04 18:08:00 CDT 2006 -- Not every missing $2 billion raises fuss in Congress
  Ever vigilant where public money is concerned, congressional leaders think the US government is missing $2 billion and want to know why.
• Fri Jul 28 14:07:00 CDT 2006 -- Politicians tout energy mistakes for 'our children'
  It's time to post guards at the playground. Politicians are marketing energy programs with invocations to "our children."