Officials prepare to rescue ethanol from new crisis
October 24, 2008
As fuel ethanol approaches a new crisis, the federal government busily fashions another rescue.
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Supply cuts key to how far oil prices plunge
October 17, 2008
The question of the day: How low will crude prices go? The answer depends greatly on supply.
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Oil industry helps ease the new load on US taxpayers
October 10, 2008
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.
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US can raise tax revenue by cutting corporate tax rate
October 3, 2008
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.
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Federal rules don't align with private sector's courtesies
September 19, 2008
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.
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Warming political menu gets new item: eggplant, well done
September 12, 2008
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.
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Oil prices change faster than market perceptions turn
September 5, 2008
Market perceptions, whatever they are and whatever their influence over oil prices, take a long time to change.
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Russian leaders act intoxicated by oil revenue
September 1, 2008
If, as some say, America is addicted to oil, Russia is stumbling drunk on the stuff.
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Europe's diesel preference gets lift from France
August 23, 2008
A French effort to reduce vehicular emissions of carbon dioxide might ease market-based problems of the European program known as dieselization.
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Energy backfires again as tool of foreign policy
August 15, 2008
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.
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New York Times writer yields to glacier seduction
August 8, 2008
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."
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Doha's collapse will cut energy use the hard way
August 1, 2008
Adherents of the minimalist approach to energy consumption have much to cheer in the collapse July 29 of the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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High oil prices form weak base for state power
July 25, 2008
Most Americans base their distaste for foreign oil on presumed instability in the Middle East. They should note recent events in Moscow and Minsk.
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Sulfur crunch could limit bitumen output
July 18, 2008
Production of bitumen and heavy oil in Alberta faces a constraint unrelated to problems receiving the most attention.
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House leaders press national drilling program
July 11, 2008
House Democrats are pressing a national drilling program for the US.
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Energy politics follows laws like those of physics
July 4, 2008
Politics and physics have disparate meanings for the word "energy" yet adhere in their treatment of the subject to natural laws with interesting similarities.
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McCain more like Democrats than Bush on energy
June 20, 2008
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.
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Blame obsession won't change the price of gasoline
June 13, 2008
The US Constitution gives Congress plenty of work to perform. So why do lawmakers keep adding to their load?
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Elements of oil price relief are falling into place*
June 6, 2008
Except for that pesky asterisk, elements of relief from painfully high oil prices are falling into place.
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Latest oil-price investigation targets traders
May 30, 2008
Oil and gas companies have reason to welcome but be wary of the latest report of an oil-price investigation.
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