Oil

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  • 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.
  • The sacrifice-free election strategy

    Neither candidate speaks with much candor about solving the energy crisis. But the GOP will use U.S. oil drilling as a weapon against Obama.
  • Empires on the rise

    China and India battle for a London-based energy company pumping oil in Siberia and Kazakhstan. That's globalization, folks.
  • Why Bush folded on Iran

    Reality, of the military and petroleum-based variety, forced the administration to change course. Now Bush sounds like Obama.
  • Rush Limbaugh: "Why can't we be more like China?"

    The conservative icon reinvents himself as a supporter of government intervention in the economy. Give me my state-subsidized SUV, or give me death!
  • Now oil spills have a liberal bias

    John McCain's plan to counterprogram Barack Obama's Berlin speech by talking about offshore drilling was poorly timed, to say the least.
  • Republicans lose a major financial backer

    T. Boone Pickens, who gave millions to support the Swift Boat Veterans, among other GOP causes, is now focusing on energy independence instead.
  • New McCain ad misleads on drilling

    In its latest spot, John McCain's campaign blames Barack Obama for high gas prices, but the ad is less than honest.
  • Lies, damn lies, correlation and causation

    Despite the evidence to the contrary, conservative pundit Larry Kudlow credits a press availability by President Bush with a drop in the price of oil.
  • OPEC changes the oil equation

    Energy traders scramble to unload their holdings after the organization suggests the world isn't as hungry for crude as it used to be.
  • What journalists should be asking about the no-bid Iraqi oil deals

    What was the Bush administration's involvement in the recent deals?
  • A compromise -- or a cave in -- on offshore drilling?

    Some Democratic politicians are talking about a deal on new drilling. But they're not asking for enough in return for their surrender
  • Hurricane Iran

    More storms, more Mideast turmoil, more fun with the price of oil.
  • Oil up, jobs down

    Same old song and dance: A new record for the price of oil, and more bad employment numbers for the U.S. economy
  • Wal-Mart's slow-food epiphany

    The high price of gas is encouraging the world's biggest retailer to buy locally.
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