Crude Oil Prices

One Way to Lower Gas Prices: Lay Off Iran

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Crude Oil Prices, Seymour Hersh, Ethnic Tensions, Oil Prices, Oil, Iran, Tehran, Israel, Dick Cheney, Gas Prices, Gas, War With Iran, Sy Hersh Iran, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

For the love of cheap gas, shut up, already. Let's stop with this nonsense about us or the Israelis launching a preemptive strike against Iran.

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The End of Oil

Michael T. Klare | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Oil, Gas Prices, Petroleum, Peak Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Oil Dependence, Green News
Michael T. Klare

The idea that the oil crisis can be resolved through restoring an environment of cheap and abundant oil is fundamentally flawed -- evidence suggests it is the beginning of the end of the petroleum age.

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Offshore Oil: What Would Sun Tzu Do?

Richard Arthur | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, California, Crude Oil Prices, Alternative Energy, Anwr, George W. Bush, Energy Policy, Oil Companies, Offshore Drilling, Water Pollution, Oil, Oil Prices, Environment, Exxon, Green News
Richard Arthur

Let's keep our oil safe in the ground or under our oceans for that time in the future when the price of oil is, well, nationalized and, hence, priceless.

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"Beyond Politics": Quick-Fix Bush Gives Us Short-Term Hope and Long Term Disaster

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, British Petroleum, President Bush, Halliburton, Saudi Arabia, Reserves, Dick Cheney, Crude Oil Prices, Big Oil, Oil Companies, Politics News
Ray Hanania

What we need and is what Bush is incapable of offering the American people: a long-term strategy that will shift us from oil-based energy to solar energy and alternative fuels.

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Scientists Find Bugs That Eat Waste and Excrete Petrol

The Times | Chris Ayres | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Green News

Ten years ago I could never have imagined I'd be doing this," says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Ca...

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Fire, Weak Dollar Fuel Record Oil Prices

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Record Oil Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Gas Crisis, Weak Dollar, Weak Economy, Economic Slowdown, 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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Oil Prices 101: What Goes Into Today's High Prices?

CNN | Posted 06.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Industry, Crude Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Companies, Green News

Oil, Supply, Demand, Speculation, Failing Dollar, oil prices, crude oil prices, oil, oil companies, big oil, oil industry, peak oil...

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Billionaire Texan Helps Divvy Up Iraq Oil, Now Admits It's the Bush Legacy

Jackson Williams | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Oil, Iraq Oil, Oil Industry, Crude Oil Prices, Big Oil, Desert Storm, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Companies, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Are oil interests now Iraq's fourth stakeholder group, and wasn't that always the objective? Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan certainly thinks so.

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As Oil Rises, Nations Revive Coal Mining

NY Times | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Coal, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Coal Mining, Oil, Business News

These rugged green mountains, once home to one of Asia's most productive coal regions, are littered with abandoned mines and decaying towns -- backwat...

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Gas tops $3.83 as early holiday travelers hit road

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Crude Oil, Oil Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Oil Production, Business News

NEW YORK — Americans getting an early start on the Memorial Day weekend found that gasoline prices again sprinted to a new record high overnight...

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You Read it Here First! $1000-a-Barrel Crude!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Gas Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Crude Oil, Economy, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

With oil blasting up to $200-a-barrel sometime soon, here are my predictions for what life will be like when we reach $1000-a-barrel.

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$130 Oil Clinches It: Bush Really Is The Worst President Ever

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Bush Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Oil Companies, Business News
Henry Blodget

As Congress holds panicked hearings to figure out what to do about the oil crisis--and, yes, it's now a full-blown crisis--it's worth stepping back and asking who really is most to blame. The answer shouldn't surprise anyone: George W. Bush.

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Oracle Of Oil Predicts $200 Barrels

New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Oil, Arjun N. Murti, Arun Murti, Business News

Arjun N. Murti remembers the pain of the oil shocks of the 1970s. But he is bracing for something far worse now: He foresees a "super spike" -- a pric...

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Crude Oil Prices From 1861-2008: A Graph

Forbes | Posted 05.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Business News

Mouse over points on the chart to see crude oil - both normal and in 2008 dollars - change over the past 147 years....

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What Did Olaf Finsaas Know And When Did He Know It?

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Crude Oil Prices, Olaf Finsaas, Gasoline, Oil, Oil Prices, North Dakota, Oil Companies, Prices, Pump, Politics News
Mark Joseph

Our government just figured out that there are 4.3 billion barrels of oil in an area that encompasses the North Dakota/Montana border. My farmer grandfather gets the last laugh.

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Bird Flu, Rice and Gas Guzzling

Laurie Garrett | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Crude Oil Prices, World Bank, Bird Flu, Oil Prices, Oil, Food, Climate Change, Food Prices, Bangladesh, Global Warming, Politics News
Laurie Garrett

Genuine policy solutions to what guarantees to be an escalating food/disease/energy/climate crisis require a willingness on the part of all nations to make painful decisions about global governance.

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Oil futures jump to record over $115 on supply concerns

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: New York Mercantile Exchange, Oil Prices, $115 Oil, Energy Department, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Crude Oil Futures, Oil Futures, Business News

NEW YORK — Crude futures made their first foray past $115 Wednesday, propelled to a new record by concerns about how much gas will be available ...

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Iran to OPEC: Stop Oil Sales in Dollars

AP | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Oil Prices, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad OPEC, Oil Cartels, OPEC Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Opec, Business News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urging OPEC members to form a joint bank and stop pricing oil trades in U.S. dollars. A...

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Exxon Skimps On Oil Production To Boost Profits

BusinessWeek Via MSN | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Production, Exxon, Energy Companies, Weak Economy, Crude Oil Prices, Exxonmobil, Business News

Reports of slackening demand sent oil down another 2.5% on Thursday to $101.84 per barrel. Crude prices have declined 7.6% since the beginning of the ...

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Airlines Dump Planes, Routes, And Workers

Chicago Tribune | Julie Johnsson | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Northwest Airlines, Airline Mergers, Fuel Costs, Northwest, Jet Fuel, Crude Oil Prices, Airline Fuel Costs, United Airlines, Airline Budgets, Airline Ticket Price Increases, Delta, United, Business News

Airline mergers may be off the table, for now, but a major industry reordering is still under way as United, Delta and Northwest Airlines contemplate ...

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Oil Jumps to New Record on Dollar's Fall

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Supplies, Crude Oil Prices, Business News

NEW YORK — The surging price of oil reached another milestone Monday, jumping to an inflation adjusted record high of $103.95. The weaker dolla...

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Oil Prices Drop Below $90 A Barrel

AP | PABLO GORONDI | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business

Read More: New York Mercantile Exchange, Oil Prices, Oil Prices Drop, Opec, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Business News

Oil prices fell Friday on expectations that OPEC will increase output next week and on fading concerns of a supply disruption from a U.S. pipeline fir...

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Oil Prices Surge After MN Pipeline Bursts into Flames

AP | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices Up, Enbridge Energy, Oil Prices, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Minnesota Fire, Pipeline Explosion, Embridge Energy, Embridge Explosion, Embridge Pipeline, Business News

Oil prices jumped more than $3 Thursday after a fire erupted late Wednesday at a pipeline carrying crude oil from Canada to the U.S. Midwest, reboundi...

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Oil Teetering On $100 A Barrel

AP | John Wilen | Posted 11.21.2007 | Business

Read More: Record Oil Prices, Oil Prices, Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Energy Futures, Business News

Energy futures balked on a drive to $100 a barrel Wednesday after the government reported that supplies at a key oil terminal in the Midwest rose for ...

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Crude Oil Hits $99 A Barrel

AP | Pablo Gorondi | Posted 11.21.2007 | Business

Read More: Record Oil Prices, Oil Prices, U.S. Federal Reserve, Escalating Oil Prices, Dollar Weakness, Weakening Dollar, Crude Oil Prices, Business News

Crude oil prices rose above a record $99 per barrel Wednesday as worries about inadequate winter supplies in the Northern Hemisphere and news of refin...

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