Oil Crisis

Sudan and South Sudan: Oil and the Recent Border Clashes

Dana Wilkins | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Oil, Oil Crisis, Sudan Oil Crisis, Sudan, Global Witness, Sudan Border Crisis, South Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, Salva Kiir, World News

Any new deal must address the pervasive mistrust around the oil sector by guaranteeing transparency and independent verification in its implementation.

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Short on Election-Year Ammo, Republicans Try to Turn Obama into Carter

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Oil Crisis, President Barack Obama, Iran Hostages, Gop, Jimmy Carter, Iran, Gop Politics, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Obama Re-Election, Presigas Prices, Video, Politics News

It's rising gas prices -- the pocketbook issue -- that's really breathing new life into the "Carter analogy."

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The Coming Oil Crisis and Your Investments

Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Crisis, Middle East Oil, Oil Industry, Oil Prices Rise, Oil Drilling, Oil-Shortage-2011, Peak Oil, Big Oil, Oil, Oil Prices, Business News

Talk of unrest in the Middle East fills the airways. Will the rising prices in oil end our "tenuous" economic recovery and plunge us into another recession?

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Don't Worry About the Oil Prices

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Commodities, Commodity Prices, Middle East, Middle East Politics, Oil, Abu Dhabi, Food Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Oil Trading, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Business News

The crass ignorance of the realities in the Middle East and the exploitation of that ignorance by speculators compounded by the mediatization of the...

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Is It Time for an Oil Tax?

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Crisis, Libya, Oil Independence, Oil Industry, Oil Tax, Alternative Energy, Oil Prices, Green, Oil, Green Energy, Green News

What really screws the economy is not high oil prices, it's the yo-yoing of prices. A gas tax, phased in over several years, would gradually increase prices at the pump to make alternatives relatively more affordable.

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WikiLeaks Reveals Imminent Saudi Oil Peak

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Dr. Sadad Al Husseini, Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Oil Crisis, Opec, Riyadh, Supply and Demand, International Energy Agency, Barrels Per Day, Wikileaks, Business News

Saudi Arabia no longer has the capacity to prevent prices from rising because it can't meet world demand. And if Saudi Arabia no longer has an ability to raise production, who does?

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Springsteen's Grave New World, 1978: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story

Rob Kirkpatrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Crisis, 1978, Darkness on the Edge of Town, 1979, Jimmy Carter, Energy Crisis, 1977, 1970s, Born to Run, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Entertainment News

It's two years into the first term of a young Democratic president, one whose election brought a sense of hope to the White House after two terms of a...

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CRISIS ART: BP Portrait Award Goes to Oil-Spill-Unrelated Corpse Painting

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, Oil Crisis, Daphne Todd, BP Oil Spill, BP Portrait Award, Arts News

LONDON-- London's National Portrait Gallery announced today that their annual BP Portrait Award will go to Daphne Todd for her painting of her dead mo...

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Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Iran, Natural Resources, Iran Election, War With Iran, Axis of Evil, Iran, Oil Crisis, Oil Industry, Iran-Censorship, Middle East, American-Beauty, Iran Protests, Worldview, Texas Oil, Ideal Woman, Iraq Army, Artwork, Iraq Violence, Middle East Politics, Middle East Conflict, Iran Oil, US-vs-Them, Iran Axis of Evil, Iran US Relations, Iran Protests 2009, Beauty, Iran Art Collection, Oil Politics, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iraq War, Iran Americans, Islamic Republic of Iran, Beneath-the-Veil, Oil, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iran War, Contemporary Art, Iran-American-Relations, Self-Expression, Chelsea Art Museum, Censorship, New York News

Iran Inside Out offers a veritable platter of provocative work that begs for discussion, debate and perhaps most importantly, an open mind.

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World Oil Supplies Are Running Out Fast

Independent | Steve Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Supplies, Iea, Oil, Oil Crisis, Oil Demand, Global Oil Supplies, World News

The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world ...

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Daily Show's Oil Crisis Analysis: Live In Wild Or Tailgate (VIDEO)

The Daily Show | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Riggle, Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Drafting, John Olver, Daily Show, Tailgating, Oil Prices, Cars, Hypermiling, Green Living, Red State Blue State, John Oliver, Green News

The Daily Show's Rob Riggle and John Oliver discuss the nation's oil crisis and offer solutions tailor-made by (and for) both blue states and red stat...

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GM's Chevy Volt Will Take Bravery, Government Help And Luck

HybridCars.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Gm, Electric Car, Green Technology, Green News

General Motors can't catch a break with its green car plans. As hybrids steadily gained market share in the first half of this decade, the company sta...

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Analysts: US's Chances To Head Off Current Oil Crisis Were Ignored, Blocked

New York Times | Nelson D. Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Crisis, Oil Policy, US Oil Crisis, Green News

Just three years ago, with oil trading at a seemingly frothy $66 a barrel, David J. O'Reilly made what many experts considered a risky bet. Outmaneuve...

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Oil Climbs Above $142 On Sliding Dollar

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Energy Prices, Record Oil Price, Energy Dependence, Oil Prices, Business News

NEW YORK — Oil futures climbed to a new record near $143 a barrel Friday as the dollar weakened against the euro, confirming expectations that t...

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Saudi Arabia Churns Out More Oil, Fearing Demand Erosion

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Crisis, OPEC Production, OPEC Increases Production, Oil Demand Erosion, Oil Demand, Saudi Arabia Oil, Saudi Oil, Business News

NEW YORK — Crude oil futures swung wildly on Monday, rising to a record and then tumbling as investors wrestled with whether they should put sto...

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Americans Feeling Pain At the Pump, But That's Only Half the Story

Andy Posner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Malnourishment, Food Crisis, Green News

Getting off oil is about figuring out how the world is going to feed, clothe, transport and provide energy and water for 9 billion people in a just, sustainable manner.

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How The Oil Crisis Has Hit The World

Independent UK | Andy McSmith, Jerome Taylor and Nigel Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Crisis, Oil Crisis Worldwide, Business News

British pensioners who cannot afford to heat their homes. European hauliers and fishermen whose livelihoods are under threat. Palestinians forced to f...

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The New Oil Dilemma: Oil-Rich Nations Using More Energy, Cutting Exports

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Demand, Oil Crisis, Oil, Oil Imports, Oil Exports, Business News

The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can se...

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