Spring's Economic Rebound Unlikely To Last Gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. ...more

August 31, 2008

Oil companies and drilling contractors on Thursday accelerated the evacuation of thousands of workers and secured offshore rigs and other equipment in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward the United States. ...more

August 29, 2008

Dropping her opposition to a vote on coastal oil exploration, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that the House would consider expanded offshore drilling as part of broad energy legislation when Congress returns next month. ...more

August 17, 2008

Barack Obama thinks the government should intervene on gas prices to "give families some relief," and he called last week for releasing 70 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. ...more

August 17, 2008

Faced with record-high gas prices and the November elections, not a day goes by without a politician's pitch to provide consumers with some relief - be it to permit offshore drilling, crack down on speculators, curb inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or grant a gas tax holiday. Yet each of these policies would have a negligible impact on gas prices. ...more

July 27, 2008

President Bush lifted nearly two decades of executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country's shoreline on Monday while challenging Congress to open more areas for exploration to address soaring energy prices. ...more

July 15, 2008

Soaring fuel prices are damaging the U.S. economy, and the government should be doing whatever it can to slow or stop their astonishing ascent. ...more

July 8, 2008

Information from official sources, like the CIA World Book of Facts and the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as Gunter Karger, who has appeared on FNN, CNN, radio shows and Editor of The Discovery Letter, indicate some interesting information about our "oil shortage." ...more

July 6, 2008

Between mouthfuls of shrimp and filet mignon, Sen. Bill Nelson managed to spit out responses to many diverse questions Thursday. ...more

May 30, 2008

SAYS AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL HELP DICTATE PACE OF WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ ...more

May 29, 2008