Oil

Salon Goodbye to cheap oil

The world's shrinking supply of oil may have disastrous effects on the economy and our security.
  • New oil industry scheme: Girls, girls, girls!

    Worried about upcoming energy legislation, the flacks come up with a fool-proof plan. Lipstick!
  • Gaza invasion: Powered by the U.S.

    Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military -- at a time when Israel doesn't need it and America does.
  • The problem with cheap oil

    The price may fall still farther in 2009. Be careful what you wish for.
  • Did I just buy an SUV?

    I didn't mean to. I am an environmentalist. Really. But before I knew it, there it was, in front of my house.
  • Return of the oil price spike

    Been to the gas station lately? It's not pretty. This time, speculators might really be to blame
  • Return of the oil grinch

    For the first time in six months, the price of crude is pushing $60. Sit back and watch the economic "green shoots" wither.
  • How long will our thirst for oil continue to fall?

    For a second straight year, global demand is shrinking, but the IEA says the world won't match the four-year contraction of the early 1980s. What do they know?
  • Partying on fossil fuels like it's 1998

    The economic collapse at the end of 2008 brought U.S. oil consumption to its lowest mark in ten years. But so what? That's still utterly unsustainable.
  • Has Obama broken his first campaign promise?

    Barack Obama promised to institute a windfall profits tax on oil companies, but the policy was quietly removed from his Web site.
  • Cheap oil's victims

    For Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sub-$50 oil is a disaster. But don't cheer too loud
  • The perils of cheap oil

    Enjoy your trips to the gas pump while you can. It won't be long until the energy crisis is back, bigger and better than ever.
  • Sarah Palin's silly energy speech

    Neither Alaska, nor its governor, has the answer to America's energy problems
  • Dems will let offshore drilling ban lapse

    Congressional Democrats are conceding on what had become a big issue in the campaign, and Republicans are rejoicing.
  • Mean girl

    Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
  • Paulson plan euphoria fades: Dow down 373

    Surging oil prices, bailout anxiety, the demise of the modern investment bank... It's a wonder the Dow didn't fall even further
  • "For these companies the penalties are pocket change"

    Pressure to settle cases means that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration collects less than half the fines it levies. But the real cost comes in worker health and safety.
  • Drill, baby, drill

    The "culture of ethical failure" in one Interior Department agency has serious implications for the Republicans' offshore-drilling plans, so why aren't Democrats making it an issue?
  • Sarah Palin's stiletto

    Put away the Quayle and Eagleton comparisons. Palin's for real, and on the key issue of energy policy, she has to be reckoned with
  • Sarah Palin: Drill, drill, drill -- all the way

    Offshore, onshore, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the Republican vice-presidential nominee makes no bones about it: Drill!
  • Ain't no wind in T. Boone Pickens' sails

    The oil tycoon's support of John McCain for president demonstrates that his heavily advertised plan for wind power is only hot air.
  • Oil, Islam, and women

    For Muslim women yearning for political power, Allah is not the problem.
  • The case for oil price speculation improves

    Most economists are still resisting the theory that oil markets were manipulated earlier this year, but some new evidence is testing their resolve
  • The oil price puzzle

    With crude oil prices $30 below their peak, analysts are suffering whiplash. But no matter how low they go, it won't be for long.
  • Did you hear that Alaska has more oil than the Middle East?

    Busting the myths about cheap and unlimited oil being broadcast by Rush Limbaugh, Jerome Corsi and other dinosaurs.
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