The Problem With 'Standing Tall Against Iran'
Cartoonist Nick Anderson thinks it's a matter of putting your money where your mouth is.
Despite cries about high gas prices, the fight over Keystone, and attacks on the administration's energy policies, The New York Times says the United States is actually much closer to energy independence than it has been in decades.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson thinks it's a matter of putting your money where your mouth is.
Need a sign that the U.S. and European Union embargoes on Iranian oil are working? The sanction-slapped country's central bank governor announced on Tuesday that it will now implement a barter system, accepting gold from its dwindling number of trading partners.
Iran is making two bold moves today in its ongoing showdown with the West, by announcing that it will load home-made nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor, and at the same time, that it will cut oil exports to six European countries.
A Russian tanker reached Nome, Alaska, with a shipment of heating oil and fuel for the winter, after an epic ice-breaking journey through the Bering Sea.
Iran promises more military action in the Strait of Hormuz, western nations try turn up the economic and regular Iranians prepare for the real possibility of war.
The high stakes standoff between Iran and the U.S. over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil, was inflamed Thursday when Iran's navy claimed to have recorded video of a U.S. aircraft carrier entering the Port of Oman.
As the U.S. preps further sanctions against the Iran, the rogue nation wants us to know, by the way, that it controls the Strait of Hormuz, through which, just so you know, a huge chuck of the world's oil supply flows.
By many measures, North Dakota is one of America's less extraordinary states. Petroleum production is not one of those measures.
Senior officials at the State Department cheered the company's quest for approval
The effects global warming might actually make it easier for them to find oil
With gas prices on the rise, the administration is allowing more offshore drilling
The International Energy Agency is aiming to offset the supply lost from Libya
On life after Weinergate, China's economic supremacy, and a defense of Goldman Sachs
On recent graduates, Sudan's civil strife, and the European Union's struggles
Seeing as how the global economy depends on it
According to WikiLeaks Cables, oil and Russia are shown to be major concerns for America
On fixing Mexico's judicial system, keeping troops in Iraq, and focus in Afghanistan
That statement "may have been insensitive," Transocean then mused
Bloomberg reports prosecutors are investigating what Tony Hayward knew
Prices are stable for the moment, but they could skyrocket soon
Have a story we missed? A link we have to click? A sharp opinion about the news? Instead of waiting for us to post it, tell us on the Open Wire.
Submit your news and ideas | See all reader posts