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• 12/19/2008 -- Forecasts for oil prices depend on economic outlook
  Guess the question from the answer: It all depends on the global economy.
• 12/12/2008 -- Smelly political, financial reports gag Democrats
  Not that Republicans haven't exploded their share of stink bombs in recent years, but the week ending Dec. 12, 2008, was especially malodorous for Democrats.
• 12/05/2008 -- 'Windfall profit' tax move leaves reason for worry
  The US oil and gas industry has reason to feel relief and worry about President-elect Barack Obama's decision not to pursue a "windfall profit" tax on oil.
• 11/28/2008 -- Financial crisis hurts outlook for EU energy goals
  The folly of governmental targets for energy use is coming into clear focus in Europe.
• 11/21/2008 -- Oil conservation starts before fuel limits take effect
  The problem with conservation as an aim of energy policy is that its strongest advocates wouldn't know it if it stared them in the face. It's staring them in the face now.
• 11/14/2008 -- The bright side of bankruptcy: a political fantasy
  In the rush to make financially troubled companies wards of the US government, a strange misconception seems to be at work: that bankrupt entities cease to exist.
• 11/07/2008 -- Waxman challenge might be a climate change power play
  A chairmanship challenge at the House Energy and Commerce Committee may be the first step in a power play over climate change.
• 10/31/2008 -- EIA: New US gas saved $4 billion in first 7 months
  Anyone concerned about imported energy should find useful the simple proposition that raising production lowers imports unless consumption rises by the same amount.
• 10/24/2008 -- Officials prepare to rescue ethanol from new crisis
  As fuel ethanol approaches a new crisis, the federal government busily fashions another rescue.
• 10/17/2008 -- Supply cuts key to how far oil prices plunge
  The question of the day: How low will crude prices go? The answer depends greatly on supply.
• 10/10/2008 -- Oil industry helps ease the new load on US taxpayers
  Congress has allowed the oil and gas business to ease the extra load taxpayers will assume from the vote-winning part of the economic rescue package signed into law Oct. 3.
• 10/03/2008 -- US can raise tax revenue by cutting corporate tax rate
  Political discourse in the early 1980s treated "tax rates" and "tax revenue" as synonymous phrases. As they grapple with a new century's economic problems, policy-makers must not repeat the mistake.
• 09/19/2008 -- Federal rules don't align with private sector's courtesies
  The oil industry has a political problem likely to cost more than the few thousand dollars four companies spent showing MMS marketers that they appreciated their business.
• 09/12/2008 -- Warming political menu gets new item: eggplant, well done
  The sacrifices people have been called to make in response to global warming have become tangible in a new way. The leader of the IPCC suggests omnivores give up meat.
• 09/05/2008 -- Oil prices change faster than market perceptions turn
  Market perceptions, whatever they are and whatever their influence over oil prices, take a long time to change.
• 09/01/2008 -- Russian leaders act intoxicated by oil revenue
  If, as some say, America is addicted to oil, Russia is stumbling drunk on the stuff.
• 08/23/2008 -- Europe's diesel preference gets lift from France
  A French effort to reduce vehicular emissions of carbon dioxide might ease market-based problems of the European program known as dieselization.
• 08/15/2008 -- Energy backfires again as tool of foreign policy
  As Arab oil exporters learned after their targeted embargo of 1973-74, energy has its drawbacks as a tool of foreign policy. The US must take that point as it reacts to Russia's bullying of Georgia.
• 08/08/2008 -- New York Times writer yields to glacier seduction
  A celebrated New York Times columnist has observed glaciers melting in Greenland and issued this judgment on proposals for expanded oil and gas leasing of the OCS: "Madness. Sheer madness."
• 08/01/2008 -- Doha's collapse will cut energy use the hard way
  Adherents of the minimalist approach to energy consumption have much to cheer in the collapse July 29 of the Doha Round of trade negotiations.