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Energy Secretary Chu Resigns Leaving Oil Markets in Turmoil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.06.2013 | Business
Read More: Politics, Rex Tillerson, Alternative Energy, Commodity Markets, Opec, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Bakken Formation, Exxon Mobil, Green, Bill Richardson, Cftc, Oil Gas, Dept of Energy, Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Energy, be it oil, natural gas or coal, involves core commodities to the functioning of our economic viability, and here the Department of Energy under Chu's tutelage has approached disaster.

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Matt Sledge

Indiana Treasurer Flip-Flops In Position On Energy Usage

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics
Read More: Bakken Shale Oil, Video, Energy Independence, Joe Donnelly, Bakken Formation, Mourdock Donnelly, Richard Mourdock, Richard Mourdock Ethanol, Ethanol Subsidies, Indiana Senate Race, Tea Party, Politics News

Indiana Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock told a gathering of Tea Party members in February that U.S. energy policy should be to "e...

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Jason Linkins

North Dakota, Minnesota Fracking Battle Contains 'Obamacare' Irony

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: Eat the Press, Energy Lobby, North Dakota, Minnesota, Fracking, North Dakota Lawsuit, Obamacare-Lawsuit, North Dakota Energy, Hydrofracking North Dakota, Video, Bakken Formation, Affordable Care Act Lawsuit, Health Care Reform, Hydrofracking, North Dakota Jobs, Affordable Care Act, Hydraulic Fracturing, Politics News

Last month, the Star Tribune reported that "North Dakota and some of the state's major energy interests [had] filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seekin...

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Obama Echoes The American Petroleum Institute Mantra

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.31.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, NY Mercantile Exchange, Senator Levin, Alternative Energy, American Petroleum Institute, Green, Green River Formation, Shale Oil, Opec, Business, Shale Gas, Politics, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, President Obama Speech, Financial TImes, Morgan Stanley, Bakken Formation, Oil, Green News
Raymond J. Learsy

The transfer of billions upon billions of dollars from American and world consumers to oil interests both domestic and foreign continues on and will continue in spite of the programs enunciated by the president.

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WikiLeaks Brings Misguided Joy to Preachers of Oil's Peak

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Politics, Bush Administration, The Guardian, World, Opec, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Bakken Formation, Oil, New York Times, Media, Shale Gas, Wikileaks, State Department, International Energy Agency, Oil Industry, Saudi Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The perception of shortage is one of the bedrocks of the oil producers' pricing propaganda, rationalizing steepening prices and profits to the OPEC cartel. So of course we're fed reports of scarcity.

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