Fuel Subsidies

Fuel Economy: Overseas Oil Subsidies Take A Toll On US Market

New York Times | Keith Bradsher | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green


To understand why fuel prices in the United States have soared over the last year, it helps to talk to the captain of a battered wooden freighter here...

Middle East Inflation Agitates Lower Classes

New York Times | Robert F. Worth | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business


Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is ...