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Climate Change Could Lead to a Cold War Over Resources
U.S. Navy/Getty Images We’re used to hearing about conflicts over resources all over the world. Prolonged engagements in the Middle East by the United States and its allies have been largely influenced...
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Low Gas Prices Reflect Surge in U.S. Oil Production
Source: Thinkstock Geopolitical turmoil, particularly in oil-producing regions, usually means higher retail costs for petroleum products, specifically gasoline. Not so this year. Oil analysts say...
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Boomtown: The State of U.S. Energy Production in 4 Charts
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Energy is the backbone of the American economy. Without reliable, reasonably-priced sources of energy, economic systems the world over would eventually grind to a...
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Why the Price of Foreign Oil Still Influences How Much You Pay for Gas
Scott Barbour/Getty Images Americans have been enjoying the spoils of cheaper gas prices lately. After nearly four years of near record-high prices, the average price of gas has dropped below $3 per...
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Boom or Bust: What’s the Outlook For the Energy Sector in 2015?
Source: Thinkstock It appears that crude oil prices are starting to stabilize. At least, they’ve started to decline slower. Most of the “experts” who send price forecasts have the low being set in the...
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Top 10 States With the Cheapest Gas Prices
Scott Barbour/Getty Images Gas is getting so cheap that consumers just might burn it for fun. During the final months of 2014, oil prices slid off a cliff and posted their biggest annual decline in six...
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10 States Hurting the Most from Crashing Oil Prices
David McNew/Getty Images Declining oil prices are often touted as an unexpected stimulus for Main Street. Regardless of stagnant wages, drivers are able to keep more money in their pockets each time...
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The U.S. Isn’t the Oil Exporter You Think It Is
David McNew/Getty Images Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time. Exporting gas is dumb. Exporting oil is dumber. The U.S. imports...
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Why Nobody Really Knows What’s Going on With Oil Prices
Andrew Burton/Getty Images Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the excess crude flowing from the...
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The Middle East Oil Addiction Could Spell Disaster
Andrew Burton/Getty Imagesx The plunge in oil prices has been felt dearly by the top hydrocarbon-producing countries, with all experiencing deep losses in revenue that in better times provides a nice...
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After 40 Years, Can Oil Companies Now Circumvent U.S. Export Ban?
Source: Getty Images Nearly 40 years ago — following the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which caused an energy crisis in the United States — Congress enacted the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975,...
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Is the U.S. Using Oil to Fight Russian Gas Politics in Ukraine?
The U.S. appears to be building pressure on Russia over its actions in Ukraine by releasing crude oil from its emergency stockpile onto the market, with news of a “test sale” causing oil prices to dip...
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U.S. Refiners Make Case Against Oil Exports
Record-setting levels of U.S. oil production have sparked calls from industry officials and policymakers to reverse a 1970s ban on crude oil exports. Dissent, however, is emerging from inside the U.S....
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BP Is Back in the Gulf of Mexico Drilling Game With Auction Success
Source: Thinkstock Analysts deem the Environment Protection Agency settlement an important milestone in BP’s (NYSE:BP) nearly four-year long mission to recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...
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BP’s Deepwater Horizon Spill Claimants Still Struggling Four Years Later
Four years after the now-infamous BP (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citizens of Grand Isle, Louisiana are still seeing oil wash up on their beaches, and many are frustrated with claims and...
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Can Exxon Mobil Conquer a New World of Plastics?
Source: Thinkstock Already the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) is doubling down with plans of entering the world of plastics. Announced last year, Exxon plans to...
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Boomtown: The State of U.S. Energy Production in 4 Charts
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Energy is the backbone of the American economy. Without reliable, reasonably-priced sources of energy, economic systems the world over would eventually grind to a...
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Top 10 States With the Cheapest Gas Prices
Scott Barbour/Getty Images Gas is getting so cheap that consumers just might burn it for fun. During the final months of 2014, oil prices slid off a cliff and posted their biggest annual decline in...
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10 States Hurting the Most from Crashing Oil Prices
David McNew/Getty Images Declining oil prices are often touted as an unexpected stimulus for Main Street. Regardless of stagnant wages, drivers are able to keep more money in their pockets each time...
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The U.S. Isn’t the Oil Exporter You Think It Is
David McNew/Getty Images Exporting crude oil and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of all time. Exporting gas is dumb. Exporting oil is dumber. The U.S. imports...
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