Even though Hurricane Ike entered the Gulf of Mexico today on a path toward the Texas coast and potentially its vast refinery complex, gasoline prices in Florida and elsewhere continued to drop. ...more

September 9, 2008

Stocks Plummet After Retail, Unemployment Data NEW YORK (AP) - Dejected investors sent stocks plunging Thursday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points after retailers and the government added to a mountain of bad economic news and devastated hopes for a late-year recovery. ...more

September 7, 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

Oil companies intensified preparations to evacuate some facilities as Hurricane Gustav made its way toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, becoming a potential threat to the region's extensive oil and natural gas production. ...more

August 27, 2008

Gold, which scorched into the record books this year, has suddenly gone cold. ...more

August 16, 2008

Growth is no longer on AirTran Airways' radar screen, as it announced plans Tuesday to further cut capacity and defer aircraft deliveries in the face of soaring fuel prices that caused it to swing to a second-quarter loss. ...more

July 30, 2008

Commodity regulators in Washington have accused a Dutch trading company of making roughly $1 million in illegal profits by manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline over an 11-day period last year. ...more

July 25, 2008

Prices at the pump pulled back from record highs Friday as another slide in oil capped crude's biggest one-week drop in more than three years. ...more

July 19, 2008

It may not be long before Florida motorists are paying close to $5 for a gallon of gasoline. ...more

July 1, 2008

Crude oil reached record high prices again, thwarting any hopes from last week there would be a continued decline. ...more

June 30, 2008