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Obama's Alternative Energy Fiasco

May 17, 2009, 1:22pm

Samuel Staley

The Obama Administration conscious policy of discouraging oil and gas in favor of supposedly clean alternatives such as solar and wind are running up against their impracticalities.

Has U.S. Demand for Oil Peaked?

April 13, 2009, 10:29am

Samuel Staley

Analysts, including those at Exxon Mobile, increasingly beleive that the demand for oil in the U.S. has peaked, despite current low retail prices.

ANWR Morass Redux

March 18, 2009, 2:05pm

Adrian Moore

Some recent discussion of extracting oil from under the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is finally getting a bit more rational. Between the polar extremes of "we need the oil, damn the animals" and "the animals are sacred" is reality--we can extract that oil without harming the wildlife.

The Oil Price Bubble Bursts

And prices are falling a dollar a day

November 18, 2008

Oil prices have dropped by 60 percent since July. And they fell without the benefit of a gasoline tax holiday, new anti-speculator regulations, or a windfall profits tax on oil companies. A year ago, crude oil was going for $88.00 per barrel and gasoline cost an average of $2.76 per gallon. Over the following months, the price soared, reaching an inflation-adjusted record high of just over $147 per barrel in July. Then the bottom fell out. Yesterday, the price was hovering around $58, up from a recent low of $53 per barrel. The result is gasoline prices plummeting from a national average of $4.11 per gallon in July to below $2.07 per gallon now. So what happened?

Gas Tax Increase or Private Capital?

China, Australia, European countries are funding infrastructure with private capital

July 16, 2008

Samuel Staley

The Myth of the Gas Price "Crisis"

Drivers, carmakers and oil companies will respond to the market

June 19, 2008

Samuel Staley

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