oil

“I had lunch with a friend yesterday, who is now investing in drilling for oil in fields that were obsolete when oil was $14.35, but which today pay out nicely. I told him that I increasingly had the point of more...

“This was “first let’s kill all the speculators” week on Capitol Hill, and it was not a pretty sight. On Monday, the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held an eight-hour hearing (!), the sole purpose of which was to decry more...

“The aptly-named Blood Car is a near-future tale about peak oil and bloodthirsty vegans. Gasoline is so expensive that it takes almost 500 bucks to fill your tank, and most cars have been abandoned in vast "car graveyards." Archie is more...

“(Fortune Magazine) -- Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food prices, investigators may want to take a look at price swings in a commodity not more...

The United States is hemorrhaging from every orifice, and oil prices can be used to measure the rapidity of its demise.

The Alberta Oil Sands (Saudi Arabia of the North) as it is proudly refered to in the oil industry has proven to be a financial boom to the Canadian economy. It has also proven to be an environmental nightmare...

“There is a thick soup of factors contributing to the dizzying rise in oil prices - among them the fall in the US dollar, surging demand from China and the rise of commodities as an asset class - but the more...

It’s been eight years now. Eight long years. Sure, initially I was glad when China toppled the Bush regime and executed the “retarded tyrant” as I love to call him. It wasn’t that bad at the start, but as time more...

OK.. i get it.. but 3 years ago i was driving 15K miles a year commuting from suburbia to a job.. now I drive 4K miles a year telecommuting from suburbia.. So suburbia is not doomed.. Just home to the more...