Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.
In remarks that sounded tailored to annoy the "drill, baby, drill" crowd, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that no amount of domestic production would wean America off foreign oil, but that avoiding another Enron-like situation would.
President Obama spoke in the oil town of Cushing, Oklahoma today, and has announced that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Apparently the GOP's gas price talking point is starting to hurt the president. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll has found that 65 percent of Americans disapprove (52 percent "strongly") of the way Obama is handling the recent rise in gas prices.
Chicago, D.C., and L.A. drivers will be paying a lot to drive this holiday weekend
Big Five oil companies report $36 billion in profits in first quarter--do the math
As the fight gears up to end subsidies to the oil industry, a look at the price-profit link
Maybe you should walk to the department store
The uprising in Libya has pushed gas prices higher, so people are upset
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