Blood Oil
In her first post, journalist Lisa Margonelli explains how the oil industry, like the diamond trade, is implicated in violent conflict.
View ArticleWho Cares About the Price of Gas?
The Detroit Auto Show, which is going on right now, is full of cars purporting to solve the problem of the moment: the political, economic and environmental damage done by America’s dependence on oil....
View ArticleThe Price of Oil in Texas
In the history of accidents, the March 2005 explosion at BP’s Texas City, Tex., oil refinery might have been another Exxon Valdez — a catastrophe that changed the way we perceive and regulate the...
View ArticleThe State of Our Energy Policy
This is what I wish President Bush would say about energy in his State of the Union message: In 2001 I said we needed to increase energy supplies, and in my State of the Union speech in 2002 I said we...
View ArticleOur Secret Stash of Oil
An intricate pipeline system connects the storage caverns at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve site on Bryan Mound. (Credit: F. Carter Smith/Polaris, for The New York Times) Last week, in his State of...
View ArticleThe Short, Sad History of Chad’s ‘Model’ Oil Project
Whenever I receive e-mail from people I met while traveling in Chad, I worry. I visited the deeply poor central African country in 2003, just after it became the world’s newest oil exporter. Back then,...
View ArticleA Dangerous Move
If you want to move four million gallons of gasoline from a refinery in New Jersey to gas stations in Baltimore, you’ll need a 400-foot-long double-hulled barge and a 5000-horsepower tugboat to push...
View ArticleThe Beauty of the Oil Market
It’s busy season for gas station attendants — with prices for a gallon of regular unleaded bopping around $3.11 nationally, they need to change their signs at least once a day. Many drivers hate these...
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