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• 07/25/2008 -- High oil prices form weak base for state power
  Most Americans base their distaste for foreign oil on presumed instability in the Middle East. They should note recent events in Moscow and Minsk.
• 07/18/2008 -- Sulfur crunch could limit bitumen output
  Production of bitumen and heavy oil in Alberta faces a constraint unrelated to problems receiving the most attention.
• 07/11/2008 -- House leaders press national drilling program
  House Democrats are pressing a national drilling program for the US.
• 07/04/2008 -- Energy politics follows laws like those of physics
  Politics and physics have disparate meanings for the word "energy" yet adhere in their treatment of the subject to natural laws with interesting similarities.
• 06/20/2008 -- McCain more like Democrats than Bush on energy
  Democratic leaders in Congress responded to oil-supply initiatives from the US president and the Republican who would succeed him as though they were identical. They couldn't be more wrong.
• 06/13/2008 -- Blame obsession won't change the price of gasoline
  The US Constitution gives Congress plenty of work to perform. So why do lawmakers keep adding to their load?
• 06/06/2008 -- Elements of oil price relief are falling into place*
  Except for that pesky asterisk, elements of relief from painfully high oil prices are falling into place.
• 05/30/2008 -- Latest oil-price investigation targets traders
  Oil and gas companies have reason to welcome but be wary of the latest report of an oil-price investigation.
• 05/23/2008 -- Yes, the world's running out of oil; what's new?
  The oil market seems to have panicked over the possibility that the end of oil availability has come into view.
• 05/16/2008 -- Why suspension of SPR price can lower oil prices
  Adult supervision has arrived. The Department of Energy on May 16 announced it is suspending by as much as 13 million bbl this year's acquisition of crude for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
• 05/09/2008 -- Intensity rising in the politics of energy villainy
  If something goes wrong with energy—meaning gasoline prices rise—politicians identify villains and heroically flail away.
• 05/02/2008 -- Farm interests strain facts to defend ethanol
  Farm interests will say anything to protect the magic money machine that the US government has built for them with fuel ethanol.
• 04/25/2008 -- Energy politics warps analysis of oil markets
  Deception in service to energy politics is standard practice in the US Congress.
• 04/18/2008 -- Bush attempts climate-change damage control
  The climate-change proposal by US President George W. Bush deserves credit for damage control.
• 04/11/2008 -- Study: Biofuels impeding struggle against poverty
  Burning food for fuel is hurting hungry people.
• 04/04/2008 -- Market hostility a factor in global economic tremors
  For global investors, turmoil in credit markets and economic deceleration aren't the only causes for worry.
• 03/21/2008 -- Climate bill seen raising gas use, lowering supply
  Climate-change legislation in the US Senate would boost demand for natural gas while limiting supply, according to analyses by two industry groups.
• 03/14/2008 -- EPA, Congress share blame for high fuel prices
  Congressional oil-price inquisitions target the wrong people. Government officials, not oil-company executives, should have to answer for zooming prices.
• 03/07/2008 -- OPEC blames rising crude oil prices on US 'mismanagement'
  The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries drew first blood in a spat with US President George W. Bush.
• 03/03/2008 -- Crude topped $100/bbl in February
  Traders pushed crude prices well above $100/bbl in late February, turning from equities to commodities as a haven for investments.