Causes and implications of rising oil prices 43 Articles

by Steven Kurlander

Crazy gas prices warrant creative government tax incentives By Steven Kurlander LAKE WORTH As the price of gas reaches $4.00 a gallon in most parts of the country, oil industry pundits are now forewarning that price c...read more

by Leonard Konis

Formidable the price of crude will reach record highs in the future. No doubt mountable reasons for crude oil price increases will be sustainable as current and future supply demands out - pass supply availability: Especia...read more

by Ralph Lawrence

AT THE BREAST OF MOTHER OIL Does anyone remember the perceived Armageddon which the new millennium was destined to wreak? Prognosticators bemoaned the expected tumult with computers refusing to reset, banks and gover...read more

by Joseph Robertson

Oil Shock: the Coming Economic Unraveling & How We Can Adjust Petroleum is the most pervasive base resource other than water in the global economy of the 21st century, and as demand is exploding, production is nearing i...read more

by Kevin Michener

Another week and more record oil prices. The price up $11 a barrel in one day!?!? One must wonder what the cause of such an increase is. For the answer, we look to the analysts. An analyst at Morgan Stanley predicted a...read more

by John Carter

The Oil Bubble When I am sitting in a donut shop and someone starts telling me over a donut and a cup of coffee that he is making all kinds of money by investing in oil futures. Then tells me it is like shooting fish i...read more

by Charles H. Schultz

One point that is often overlooked when talking about ethics in the Oil industry is the affect that these rising cost have on truckers and trucking companies. It is a simple truth that if you have it, it was on an 18 wheel...read more

by T. M. Beeker

I believe one should always look at the price of a good in two ways. First, determine is this a commodity or is it a manufactured good. Second, if it is a commodity is the price 'fixed' such as the ceilings or floors of ce...read more

by Luke Rasmussen

It is beginning to sound like a broken record. Everybody now, "oil prices are up again." Yet again, our wallets are taking a beating with high oil prices and prices at the pump. Today, Wall Street decided that a barr...read more

by Curtis Zimmer

I have read the other articles on rising price of fuels. It is! It is absolutely outlandish! They are all correct to no uncertain terms. There is some talk of cheap import oil in many countries. Why does Argentina se...read more

by Chad Martindale

Gas prices seem to be a subject that everyone has an opinion on. News reports that include random interviews of people at the gas pump seem to pop up every time the price goes up another 10 cents. I never really understo...read more

by Heather Foster

Congress is at it again! Being the opposite of progress, our elected officials are back to spending our tax dollars on stupidity again. They allow environmentalists to dictate their votes on drilling for oil, construction ...read more

by Randy Scott

A number of years ago Saddam Hussein (remember him?) suggested that oil at $30.00 a barrel was simply ripping off the supplying countries. Hussein thought that oil should be at $100.00 a barrel or maybe even $200.00 a barr...read more

by Dave Miller

I have noticed that most of the people writing on this topic are from the USA. I thought it might be an idea to bring some perspective by writing from a British point of view,and more specifically a Scottish one. Scotla...read more

by Gerhard Adam

It would appear that there is a 600 lb. gorilla in the room that no one wants to acknowledge. While everyone is arguing about supply and demand, or the lack of refineries, or the need for increased production, the area th...read more

by Ida Ikhtiari

The rising price of gasoline, I believe is and will continue to have a two fold effect. First of all there is the economic burden that affects those who can afford it the least. Then there is the knowledge that is being ...read more

by Gideon MacLeish

(originally posted November 3, 2005 on a sister blog site): As the debates rage on about oil companies and their absurd profit margins, I am outraged by the number of Americans demanding government intervention to regul...read more

by Ellen Kudlicki

The basic laws of economics centers around the concept known as "supply and demand". Most people dozed through Economics 101, so let's break this down into terms we can all understand. Let's say you really like Chocolate ...read more

by Bob Wagner

The last time I checked sales of SUVs dropped between 30% and 55% and with gas costing $1.00-$2.00 more per gallon than a year ago, I am a little surprised that those figures aren't higher. While I do not feel too sorry fo...read more

by Tim Williams

The United States of America 50 years ago was the greatest nation in the world. The land of plenty, the American dream, home of the brave and free. These phrases typified what America was all about; liberty, justice, moral...read more