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• 03/05/2010 -- Study: US needs $7/gal gasoline to meet CO2 aims
  Meeting goals set by the Obama administration for carbon dioxide emissions would require sharp increases in fuel prices and strict regulation, a new report says.
• 03/12/2010 -- Money and credit changes seen as threats to oil price
  In the unusually complex oil market of the present, producers might profitably expect prices to swoon soon and hope events prove them wrong.
• 03/19/2010 -- Health-care tactics raise new worry in oil and gas issues
  An industry loathed by the political left should cringe at audacious manipulations deployed in service to unpopular legislation for reform of US health care.
• 04/02/2010 -- GAO: Energy Star program 'vulnerable to fraud and abuse'
  If you planned to apply for an Energy Star rebate for that gasoline-powered alarm clock you’ve been admiring, you’re too late.
• 04/09/2010 -- Promises on new OCS leasing tend to be backwards
  Listening to the Obama administration discuss expanded Outer Continental Shelf leasing is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything seems backwards.
• 04/16/2010 -- Chevron elicits rebuke of '60 Minutes' smear
  Chevron has scored public-relations points in its legal quagmire in Ecuador—against the television network CBS, no less.
• 04/23/2010 -- What can happen did happen in the Gulf of Mexico
  The offshore oil and gas industry deals constantly with what can happen. Nearly all the time, it does so successfully. The exception is what changes everything.
• 04/30/2010 -- Hate derivatives? How can you like cap-and-trade?
  Political gyrations over financial and energy reform camouflage a wicked hypocrisy.
• 05/07/2010 -- OCS leasing loses bargaining clout in politics of climate
  As a bargaining tool in the politics of climate change, expansion of oil and gas leasing off the US always has raised problems.
• 05/14/2010 -- Past discussion of BOP problems is not scandalous
  A blow to credibility must not limit the oil and gas industry’s ability to discuss technical problems.