Editor's Perspective

New job numbers, crackling with political context, suggest a potent move President Barack Obama might make in his bid for reelection—but almost certainly will not.

Gasoline demand this summer in the United States will be at its lowest level in 11 years while the price sets a record high. What gives?

On its way down the proverbial slippery slope toward economic statism, Argentina has laid claim to oil and gas assets worth, oh, $18 billion or so.

Iran raised the stakes of an important meeting about its nuclear plans by insulting Arabs and picking a new fight over islands in the Strait of Hormuz.

If they were not in an election year, lawmakers might be fixing America’s fuel ethanol wreck instead of skewering consumers and hiding the damage.

In service to the quality of discourse, the oil and gas industry should fall silent on energy independence and hope that others who converse about energy recognize the consequent boost to public enlightenment and do likewise.

When people are confident enough about their righteousness to make a public display of it, should they not also be right?

The oil sands industry of Canada has taken an important step toward refuting the “dirty oil” claims of environmental activism.

Even the audience President Barack Obama hoped to manipulate with his Feb. 23 energy speech can recognize self-contradiction.

Political conflict over hydraulic fracturing turns on a semantic point crucial but perhaps not evident to the oil and gas industry.

As Congress begins its latest effort to choreograph energy choice, Americans should lock their cash drawers.

Because the world needs renewable energy, renewable energy needs a new lifecycle.

If US elections in 2012 amounted only to a contest between envy and oil, President Barack Obama would win 4 more years in office.

So far, oil and gas companies have been strangely absent from Democratic Party explanations for why the congressional super committee failed.