Editor's Perspective
Yes, the world's running out of oil; what's new?
May 23, 2008
The oil market seems to have panicked over the possibility that the end of oil availability has come into view.
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Why suspension of SPR price can lower oil prices
May 16, 2008
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.
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Intensity rising in the politics of energy villainy
May 9, 2008
If something goes wrong with energy—meaning gasoline prices rise—politicians identify villains and heroically flail away.
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Farm interests strain facts to defend ethanol
May 2, 2008
Farm interests will say anything to protect the magic money machine that the US government has built for them with fuel ethanol.
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Energy politics warps analysis of oil markets
April 25, 2008
Deception in service to energy politics is standard practice in the US Congress.
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Bush attempts climate-change damage control
April 18, 2008
The climate-change proposal by US President George W. Bush deserves credit for damage control.
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Study: Biofuels impeding struggle against poverty
April 11, 2008
Burning food for fuel is hurting hungry people.
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Market hostility a factor in global economic tremors
April 4, 2008
For global investors, turmoil in credit markets and economic deceleration aren't the only causes for worry.
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Climate bill seen raising gas use, lowering supply
March 21, 2008
Climate-change legislation in the US Senate would boost demand for natural gas while limiting supply, according to analyses by two industry groups.
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EPA, Congress share blame for high fuel prices
March 14, 2008
Congressional oil-price inquisitions target the wrong people. Government officials, not oil-company executives, should have to answer for zooming prices.
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OPEC blames rising crude oil prices on US 'mismanagement'
March 7, 2008
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries drew first blood in a spat with US President George W. Bush.
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Crude topped $100/bbl in February
March 3, 2008
Traders pushed crude prices well above $100/bbl in late February, turning from equities to commodities as a haven for investments.
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House energy bill an exercise in childishness
February 29, 2008
Kicking oil companies in the shins is not energy policy. It's childishness.
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CBO: CO2 tax the best move on climate change
February 22, 2008
The Congressional Budget Office is right to favor a tax on carbon dioxide over other possible US responses to climate change. But it omits an important reason.
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Congress offers bad reasons for bad energy bill
February 15, 2008
Doing good things for good reasons is best; good things for bad reasons, lucky; bad things for good reasons, wrong; and bad things for bad reasons, stupid.
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Energy in need of politically popular change
February 8, 2008
A political campaign with "change" as a rallying call should be good for energy policy in the US. But don't count on anything.
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Like energy bill, stimulus package misses the target
February 1, 2008
The economic stimulus initiative pushing its way through the US Congress has much in common with last year's energy bill. It's superficial and insufficient, probably harmful.
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Societe Generale mess a reminder of trading perils
January 25, 2008
The unfolding Jerome Kerviel drama says much about cap-and-trade remedies for climate change.
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Request for more oil highlights US contradictions
January 18, 2008
These thoughts might have occurred to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah when US President George W. Bush, during a visit to the desert kingdom, requested an increase in oil production.
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Import arguments backfire against US oil producers
January 11, 2008
Arguments aimed at cutting US oil imports do producers more harm than good in Washington, DC. The industry should try a different approach.
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