Editor's Perspective
Reason for Annan to quit should be UN, not US
December 10, 2004
The administration of US President George W. Bush was right to declare on Dec. 9 that it's not pushing for the resignation of United Nations Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan.
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Scandal-ridden United Nations needs new leader
December 3, 2004
The question is not whether Kofi Annan should resign as secretary general of the United Nations. The question is why he hasn't done so already.
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US should change a leasing policy based on ignorance
November 24, 2004
With limits on supply asserting themselves in oil and gas markets, curiosity runs high about how much fluid hydrocarbon remains to be found and produced.
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Budget caution averts panic over oil price slide
November 15, 2004
The price of crude oil has fallen by more than $7/bbl in 3 weeks. Shouldn't oil companies be canceling projects, laying off workers, and shedding physical assets? Is a $7/bbl slide no longer sufficient to shove industry managers into scorched-earth mode?
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UAE defies west's stereotype of the Middle East
November 6, 2004
It is misleading to describe all of the Middle East in terms applicable only to the region's most violent and oppressive countries.
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It's no crisis that the US and Europe have issues
October 29, 2004
As an issue in US general election on Nov. 2, friction between the US and Europe won't be decisive.
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Hydraulic fracing assault just a political trick
October 22, 2004
Just in time for general elections, four congressional Democrats and one independent have concocted an environmental issue out of technical complexity, ignorance, and fear.
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US producers win long-sought relief for marginal wells
October 15, 2004
Congress can act constructively on energy and doesn't need omnibus legislation to do it.
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Critical report might obscure US air-quality gains
October 8, 2004
A report critical of US Environmental Protection Agency efforts to reduce ground-level ozone pollution can create a faulty impression.
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US foot-dragging on LNG producing a scare scenario
October 4, 2004
The comforting feature of scare scenarios is that they seldom come true.
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Need for energy the best gauge of spending levels
September 27, 2004
Concern has arisen that oil and gas companies aren't spending money fast enough.
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OPEC reports highlight confusion in energy news
September 17, 2004
Here's a public-education challenge for the oil and gas industry: Teach journalists the difference between production quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and actual production.
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Election run-up likely to raise violence in Iraq
September 13, 2004
Elections raise prospects for a further escalation of violence and more disruption to oil flow in and from Iraq.
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Bush's convention energy statement brief, puzzling
September 3, 2004
That neither candidate felt obliged to offer more than brief energy promises is unusual in a period of elevated prices for oil, gas, and electricity.
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Washington should be planning for exit from Iraq
August 27, 2004
The US government should plan better for its departure from Iraq than it apparently did for the occupation.
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Chronic suspicion clouds thinking on oil price behavior
August 13, 2004
Unsold oil makes no money for oil producers. This insight somehow eludes adherents to the chronic suspicion that high oil prices can result only from withheld supply.
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Prices of crude, gasoline shattering suspicious myth
August 6, 2004
According to the myth, the gasoline price moves in step with crude on upturns but not downturns because of an evil urge of gasoline sellers to take advantage of their customers.
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Environment helped by repairs to Clinton's lurches
July 30, 2004
Among polemical straw men slain at the Democratic National Convention July 26-29 was a beauty smitten by former President Bill Clinton.
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Planet can handle global warming without legal help
July 23, 2004
Grandstanding lawyers want to save the planet. Who will save the planet from grandstanding lawyers?
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Threat of trade move against OPEC misreads oil market
July 16, 2004
The subject of oil casts a strange spell on some politicians. It distorts their perceptions.
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