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24th September 2009
Saudi Arabia and the United States have been friends for some time. To the average public within the country most Americans view Saudi Arabia as sponsors of terror citing the countries Muslim background. However, Saudi Arabia regularly supports the United... Read >
Author: wbdoyle16th September 2009
Recent exploration of sediment deep beneath the Artic Ocean has led geologists to estimate that approximately 1/4 of the world’s untapped oil and gas reserves are located there. After evaluating the impact of the news, the U. S. may seek membership in O... Read >
07th August 2009
The title of the Mini Cooper causes all kinds of confusion with car enthusiasts. Is the car a small version of a Cooper or is it just a Mini and Cooper is the model or what? We address the issue and provide an answer in this article.
The Mini Cooper re... Read >
Author: Dirk Gibson01st July 2009
I. Introduction
Crude oil is the most important form of energy for all the countries, mainly for developed and developing countries. The importance of crude oil is such that it is used in day to day activity of individual as well as the economic develop... Read >
Author: Gopal28th June 2009
Beat the oil barons and get more miles to the gallon.
By Roy Collins
Hard pressed American families are trying many different ways to get their cars to go a few more miles on a gallon of regular as the recession begins to bite. Keeping your car pro... Read >
Author: Roy Collins06th June 2009
The economy is finally showing some minor indications of coming back from the dead. It saw the white light and decided to stay with us! Alas, the world is all about balance. As the economy recovers, the bill is going to come due for certain events and one... Read >
Author: Thomas Ajava10th February 2009
“There is an old saying in commodities that low prices cure low prices and crude oil is currently at a multi-year low”. When prices of any commodity are low the producers of that commodity typically cut back on production and innovation costs. In the ... Read >
Author: MK Smith20th January 2009
The history of alternative fuel can be found way back in the 1900’s but due to political and economical factors, the growth of alternative fuels was short lived. Fossil fuels are still the mainstay of the economy but in the 1970’s, there was a extreme... Read >
Author: Jason17th January 2009
For the last few weeks, IT giant Satyam has been hogging all the limelight and that too for all the wrong reasons. Needless to add that all the market news India has been dominated by arguably one of the biggest scandals in the corporate world in present ... Read >
Author: Divya27th October 2008
When I read and hear the news, I come to the conclusion that the US is the richest country at peace in the world. We must be. Only in a rich country at peace could so many trivial issues make the news, and occupy our attention and energy.
Some examples... Read >
Author: Andrew Cox27th October 2008
South Africans would be best advised to dust the cobwebs off that bicycle or head for the bus terminus as local fuel prices are not predicted to drop any day soon.
After a fortnight of turmoil on the world stock markets and the threat of a global reces... Read >
Author: Kayla Reid07th October 2008
Oil settles down $6.07 at $87.81 a barrel, as markets reel from global credit crisis.
November crude oil prices this morning are trading -$3.93 a barrel and November gasoline is trading -7.61 cents a gallon on continued long liquidation pressure and c... Read >
Author: Jeremiah Murray02nd October 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 David P Jensen
Gas prices,political agendas,the overall economy,oil imports,..It's al clearly linked and related in this article.
Thus we support other countries' economies while our own stagnates. Beyond that, these "other count... Read >
22nd August 2008
All of us are hit hard by high and rising Crude Oil prices. Since the grains are being used to produce bio-fuels, food prices too has risen sharply. Due to rise in both food and fuel prices the inflation is scaling new heights across the globe. In India, ... Read >
Author: Sudhir Goyal22nd August 2008
Chakib Khelil made the prediction in his brief remarks to reporters, noting "there could be volatility ... but normally long
-term oil prices should move in that lower direction without the interference of geopolitics or of the U.S. monetary policy."... Read >
Author: stjenre16th August 2008
IS OPEC LOSING IT?
Earlier in the summer the president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Chakib Khelil attacked the biofuels industry by claiming that ethanol is responsible for 40 percent of the rise in oil prices. Mr. Kheli... Read >
Author: Barb Miller16th August 2008
The PROBLEM is that we are burning up oil as fast as the world can pump it out of the ground.
The PROBLEM is that it has been thirty five years since OPEC whacked us between the eyes, and told us that we were at the mercy of a bunch of evil tyrants who... Read >
Author: DAVE17th July 2008
(June 2008) Nancy Pelosi will probably go down in history as the greatest enemy-from-within this country has ever had. As bad as Bush's ratings are, the Democratic Congress' is even worse, and Nancy Pelosi scrapes the bottom of the barrel.
Her claim of... Read >
Author: Josh Greenberger16th July 2008
Oil prices have begun their rise into the sky. OPEC knows that oil reserves are falling and that demand is rising. OPEC has cornered the petroleum market. OPEC's prospects for jacking up oil prices without opposition are unlimited. Or are they?
Con... Read >
Author: drklaus14th July 2008
Khurais is an undeveloped giant oilfield located 100 miles to the west of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. It has become the hot spot to increase crude oil production because of the following two factors
1. consumer’s demand to decrease oil prices... Read >
Author: zander smith11th June 2008
(June 4, 2008) It's easy to blame our current predicament of high gasoline prices on insufficient oil production or export by OPEC. It's more difficult to blame ourselves for passivity and lack of resolve. There's no question that OPEC could help alleviat... Read >
Author: Josh Greenberger29th April 2008
Cincinnati, OH � Each week as Americans struggle to find money to fill their gas tanks, buy milk, and pay their mortgage � the government is spending $2 billion tax dollars in Iraq. And as the price at the pump goes up, as food takes more and more o... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer01st April 2008
Soy inks are a kind of printing ink made from soy beans, which are considered to be better than petroleum based inks. The best part of soy ink is that they are very much eco-friendly and they are available in bright colors. When using soy inks while print... Read >
Author: shijinaseo04th October 2007
The introduction of soy ink around a decade back has brought a welcome change to the printing industry. As opposed to petroleum-based ink, soy ink is produced from soybeans and definitely holds more advantages than the traditional ink used in the printing... Read >
Author: Wain Roy01st July 2007
Countries across the world rely heavily on oil and its byproducts to create much of the energy that their citizens consume. The availability of gasoline to power vehicles, boats and aircraft in the United States of America is dependent largely upon oil th... Read >
Author: wespipe01st July 2007
The price of gasoline affects most consumers’ cost of daily living, and also triggers a far reaching economic impact across numerous industries. Not only do gasoline prices have an immediate effect on individuals’ living expenses, they also influence ... Read >
Author: Greg Chapman01st July 2007
When we think about gasoline prices, we usually only get as far as contemplating the ever changing price per gallon or begrudgingly recounting how much we spent on our last fill up at a gas station. In the United States, we rely on gasoline for transporta... Read >
Author: wespipe01st July 2007
In the United States, we consume millions of barrels of oil daily in the form of the gasoline that powers our vehicles, jet fuel for air travel and a multitude of other oil reliant products. When we think about oil prices, we typically get no further than... Read >
Author: wespipe29th June 2007
Crude oil prices have been capturing many news headlines worldwide, be they are falling or rising. Crude oil has been demonstrating a sense of its importance to global consumers for the past couple of years. In the past, many economies had failed to adept... Read >
Author: Chris26th June 2007
In passenger cars, the diesel engine has never really caught on. During the middle to late 70s, diesel engines in passenger cars did notice a surge in sales due to the OPEC oil embargo, although that is the only real significant penetration that diesel e... Read >
Author: OMAR08th June 2007
Crude oil prices have been capturing many news headlines worldwide, be they are falling or rising. Crude oil has been demonstrating a sense of its importance to global consumers for the past couple of years. In the past, many economies had failed to adept... Read >
Author: Rakesh P01st June 2007
Several years ago, economists began using the term "bubble" to describe the incredible yearly increases in the price of an average home in many U.S. markets. Inevitably, when those increases tapered off and home prices glided back to more normal levels, t... Read >
Author: Tonja Demoff30th March 2007
It looks as though it'll take more than a nuclear bomb to thwart the North American penny stock markets.
The world's loopiest dictator announced last weekend that he detonated a nuclear bomb. How did the global markets respond? They didn’t even hiccu... Read >
Author: John Whitefoot16th November 2006
Short of driving a toaster on wheels, what steps can you take to improve your current car's fuel economy? There are quite a few that can help; 8 are listed herein.
If some people had their way, you'd be driving a small hybrid powered vehicle with no ch... Read >
Author: Matthew C. Keegan28th July 2006
This morning Exxon, the largest energy company in the world reported record profits of $10.36 billion for the second three months of the year. This was up from $7.64 billion from the same period a year ago. You will notice that the earnings were just shy ... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer22nd July 2006
Crude oil and its derivatives are currently the major factor of production in almost all industries. Because of this, our over-reliance on crude oil forces the entire market to be a slave to crude oil prices. With the current price of crude petroleum hove... Read >
Author: Ron Zvagelsky08th June 2006
Nervous energy
Consumers are highly vulnerable to a sudden break in energy supplies. But so are producers
IF YOU leave a loaded weapon lying around, it is bound to go off sooner or later. Snow-covered northern Europe heard the gunshot loud and clear w... Read >
Author: Judy Brown21st May 2006
Analysing the potential impact the Alberta's oilsands reserves could have on the world oil market requires one to clarify what volumes regarding available reserves and output will be used in discussion. Determining the size or clarifying which data sets a... Read >
Author: barry nagassar21st May 2006
There are five primary factors that effect the price you
pay for gas at the pump. Prices generally increase when
the world crude oil market lowers their inventories. Also,
when demand exceeds refinery capacity gas prices increase.
The first factor t... Read >
Author: Lisa Beers21st May 2006
To continue from where we left off in part 1:
With a viable world market within striking distance, I will argue that the only method for inducing a change in OPEC behaviour is to 'steal' import supply from the United States. It is unlikely that oilsand... Read >
Author: barry nagassar16th April 2006
Crude Oil and Gas Prices, Ready to Pay More, Much More?
Did you think the non-inflation adjusted record high in oil and gas prices form hurricane Katrina last September was just a blip on the radar? If you did, you may be in for a very rude awakening.... Read >
Author: George Hindson
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