Goldman Sachs’ Warning Dents Crude Oil Price
False optimism has driven oil prices higher. They are now set to come down. ...
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EPA Boss: Coal Regulations Are About the Politics of Power
n a classic case of exercising power for the sake of power, Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), admitted that...
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World’s Largest Coal Company Could Disappear
The world's largest private-sector coal company will miss making $70 million in interest payments for lack of money. Government regulations play a part...
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U.S. Energy Agency Predicts Still Further Declines in Oil and Gas Prices
Predicting future oil prices is like trying to pin the tail on a skittish donkey in the dark. ...
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Wall Street Pouring Billions Into Oil Companies
Wall Street investors have started pouring billions into the energy sector, persuaded that prices not only of crude oil but stocks of energy...
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Aubrey McClendon, “Reckless” Energy Pioneer, Dies in Fiery Car Crash
Oil man Aubrey McClendon's impact is being felt every time any driver pulls up to the pump or pulls out his checkbook to...
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Oil Industry Facing Massive Challenges
Despite protestations to the contrary emanating from the Houston conference last week, the oil industry is facing increasingly severe difficulties. ...
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U.S. LNG Spelling Freedom From Russian Extortion in Europe
For Russia's natural gas customers, the supplies of liquefied natural gas coming from the United States are more than welcome. They spell freedom....
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Agreement to Cut Oil Production Fades, Along With Crude Prices
A so-called agreement to limit oil production to help boost prices faded almost immediately, along with stock and oil prices, when it was...
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Chesapeake Energy Claims It’s Not Declaring Bankruptcy
The collapsing oil and natural gas prices plus the “straight line” thinking that drove Chesapeake Energy to its present precarious position is putting...
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Does Cruz’s Iowa Victory Signal the End of Ethanol Subsidies?
If support for ethanol subsidies is waning in Iowa, of all places, does that spell the end of them altogether? ...
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Energy Expert Sticks With Prediction of $18 Oil
John Kildruff, the founder of energy trading company Again Capital, predicts oil will reach as low as $18 a barrel. If his prediction...
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Crude Prices Likely to Drop Further After Iranian Sanctions Lifted
Justice may be slow but it is sweet. Iranian oil will put additional pressure on OPEC. ...
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Interior Secretary Halts All New Coal Mining on Public Lands
The announcement that the Obama administration would be stopping issuing new coal leases on federal land should catch no one by surprise. Obama...
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Oil Prices Down, Oil Bankruptcies Up, Industry Safe
OPEC's hopes that low oil prices, owing to its full-tilt pumping operations, would remove production in the United States' oil fracking areas continue...
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