Commodity trading controls can yield unsavory surprises
August 21, 2009
New attempts to moderate energy-price movement with controls on commodity trading might, like much regulation of markets, yield unsavory surprises. |
Hazards linger as the Obama agenda stalls
August 14, 2009
Americans correctly sense that their stylish and articulate president has been railroading them—and not just on health care. |
FTC oil market rule will restrict market activity
August 7, 2009
The US Federal Trade Commission’s rule prohibiting oil-market manipulation culminates a witch hunt in a land of no witches. |
With profits down, lawmakers find new oil-price menace
July 31, 2009
When oil-company profits surged last year, Congress staged a two-ring circus. So what happens now that profits are crashing? |
Needy California takes a new look at big oil project
July 24, 2009
Fiscal distress is nudging California toward a measured embrace of—gasp!—oil and gas development. |
Reporting profits in recession sure to stir public ire
July 17, 2009
The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience. |
Signs scrambled on the inevitable start of recovery
July 10, 2009
Global economic recovery has to start sometime. Now seems like as good a time as any. |
In need of money, the US government takes aim at LIFO
July 3, 2009
Beware the government asserting principle but needing money. |
A new government foray: commerce in highway rest areas
June 19, 2009
Government is encroaching into private affairs in ways other than the big-headline issues like automaker takeovers and fuel selection. It’s even sneaking up on interstate highways. |
Ethanol's green goodness clouded by water strains
June 12, 2009
For a supposedly clean-burning gasoline additive, ethanol always has carried a full load of environmental compromises. |
Oil sands attack lifts doubt about activists' motives
June 6, 2009
A stepped-up attack on the Canadian oil sands strengthens doubt about the motives of environmental activists.
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Lands bill a new package of horrors for US oil and gas
May 29, 2009
As horror follows horror in Washington, DC, the US oil and gas industry needs a scorecard to keep track of threats building against it.
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Treasury: Oil, gas 'overproduction' a threat to security
May 22, 2009
For oil and gas, the national-security argument has always been a two-edged sword. The back edge now slashes savagely.
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The unspoken booms in some reform debate
May 15, 2009
The secret of aggressive reform is often just that: off-message information that reformist politicians don't want anyone to know.
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Chief executives boost UN program on corruption
May 8, 2009
An important United Nations fight against corruption received a boost this month from the chief executives of 24 international companies.
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'Pollutant's' new meaning threatens hydrogen vehicles
May 1, 2009
If applied consistently, the logic that treats carbon dioxide as air pollution would end whatever hope remains for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
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Shock in Canada: Alberta not worst on environment
April 24, 2009
In Canada, calling Alberta green—even brownish green—can cause a ruckus.
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IEA use of JODI data a step for oil transparency
April 17, 2009
An international effort to improve transparency of oil and gas markets advanced a step this month.
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Studies challenge job creation via overhaul of energy
April 10, 2009
A centerpiece of the Obama administration's proposal to overhaul US energy markets—the promise of an employment surge from "green jobs"—has come under attack.
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Prophecy fulfilled: Democracy stalls climate sacrifice
April 3, 2009
A prominent prophet of climate doom appears, after all, to be prophetic.
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