Cost of Oil

Danger Waters

Michael T. Klare | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Bp, Strait of Hormuz, Oil, Iran, Cost of Oil, World News
Michael T. Klare

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy "chokepoint" could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

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Oil's Silly Season

Daniel Dicker | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Price of a Barrel of Oil, Oil Speculation, Commodities, Cost of Gas, Cost of Oil, Oil Subsidies, Business News
Daniel Dicker

I've traded oil for 25 years and I don't know if it's worth $40 a barrel or $140 a barrel today. I do know that getting past the silly season of oil pricing, and figuring out what it's really worth is going to help us all.

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Will Gas Prices Rise Even Higher In 2011?

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Price of Gasoline, Gas, Gasoline, Gas Cost, Gasoline Costs, Cost of Gasoline, Oil Prices, Cost of Gas, Rising Gas Prices, Cost of Oil, Business News

NEW YORK — The price of oil is poised for another run at $100 a barrel after a global economic rebound sent it surging 34 percent since May. That co...

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We Are All Trapped in a Global Oil Slick

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Environment, Oil Addiction, Oil Industry, Politicians-Oil-Industry, Oil Spill, Alternative Energy, Big Oil, Dependence on Oil, Ecuador Oil, Cost of Oil, Green News
Johann Hari

Petrol pours off each of us like an invisible sweat. The 20th century was propelled into the stratosphere on a geyser of oil, and nobody wanted to ask where it was coming from, or what it would cost us in the end.

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Our Dangerous Addiction to Immediacy

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Solar Power, Climate Change, Energy, Price of Oil, Oil Tax, Gasoline Tax, Reliance on Oil, Gas Tax, Price-of-Oil, Environmentalism, Oil Dependence, Cost-of-Oil, Oil Costs, Cost of Oil, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

The time has come for society to pay the true environmental and national security price tag of burning fossil fuels.

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