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Oil Crisis

Sudan and South Sudan: Oil and the Recent Border Clashes

Dana Wilkins | Posted 03.29.2012 | World
Dana Wilkins

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

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

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.24.2012 | Politics
Stewart J. Lawrence

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

The Coming Oil Crisis and Your Investments

Dan Solin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dan Solin

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?

Don't Worry About the Oil Prices

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Georges Ugeux

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

Is It Time for an Oil Tax?

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Henry Blodget

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.

WikiLeaks Reveals Imminent Saudi Oil Peak

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jeffrey Rubin

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?

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

Rob Kirkpatrick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Rob Kirkpatrick

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...

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

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

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...

Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Marissa Bronfman

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

World Oil Supplies Are Running Out Fast

Independent | Steve Connor | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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 ...

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

The Daily Show | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...

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

HybridCars.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...

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

New York Times | Nelson D. Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...

Oil Climbs Above $142 On Sliding Dollar

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

Saudi Arabia Churns Out More Oil, Fearing Demand Erosion

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

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

Andy Posner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Andy Posner

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.

How The Oil Crisis Has Hit The World

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

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

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

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...