Tom Cannariato continues to nurse the delusion that we could lower the price of gasoline if only we could put those oil rigs a little closer to shore. ...more

July 10, 2008

Hedge Fund Traders Buying The Presidency The fact is oil is abundant worldwide. For example, there is shale-oil in the U.S. with an estimated 2.8 trillion to 3.3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. That equals two-thirds of the world's total reserve of crude oil. ...more

June 26, 2008

United Airlines has laid off 1,400 employees and will, in the next two or three months, furlough 950 pilots. ...more

June 25, 2008

Sen. John McCain's reversal of his position on offshore oil drilling diminishes his reputation as a straight-talking maverick. On this issue, he is offering a false promise of quick fixes to today's high gas prices. ...more

June 19, 2008

Courtney Clark and Stephanie Bikowski have shared a lifetime of special moments. ...more

February 13, 2008

Let's Make Some Deals From the Chicago Tribune: The president at the microphone Monday night for his final State of the Union address? Last month, 32 percent of the Americans surveyed told Gallup pollsters they approve of his performance. Those who disapprove: 65 percent. And the members of Congress arrayed before him? Their approval rating is 23 percent. That's better than the Ebola virus, but when their disapproval rating is 71 percent, you're nobody's heroes. ...more

January 30, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS – A memorial service and Divine Liturgy will take place, locally, for the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who died of cancer Monday at his home in Athens. He was 69. ...more

January 28, 2008

In a tumultuous final session at international climate talks in which the U.S. delegates were booed and hissed, the world's nations committed Saturday to negotiating a new accord by 2009 that, in theory, would set the world on a course toward halving emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2050. ...more

December 16, 2007