Price of Oil

Gas prices are once again rising toward record highs. Find out why prices are on the rise and what can be done stop the increases.

There has been a shift in thinking when it comes to buying real estate and the rising cost of oil has played a role in that decision-making process.

This is a research paper that explains why the price of oil and gasoline can fluctuate in such dramatic ways. The paper also shows how the prices of oil and gasoline are related to each other.

Are we too overdependent on oil? Can we survive without it? How has oil affected our everyday lives?

OPEC is meeting to discuss a cut in production to stop the current drop in price.

Energy Issues: The world has become addicted to oil. Internal combustion engine and the infrastructure used to support it flies in the face of logic . . Why? Are there ulterior motives? You decide.

A short overview and prediction on the price of oil over the next several years. As well, alternatives to oil based business will be explored.

As international crude oil prices soared, the rush to find an alternative to Middle Eastern oil has caused global food prices to spiral out of control, causing unrest in many poor nations

The oil problem is not one of reserves. It is from lack of developing infrastructure and refineries. The oil is there to be had, but it will take new technologies and another decade to relieve the strain on supply.

President Obama has decided to release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to make up for shortages in Libyan exports.

How to find high yielding investments and profit off the higher price of oil.

Domestic oil drilling in the United States is a viable path to economic recovery, job creation, and national security.

I don't believe any of us feel alone while taking our beating at the gas pump. My question is, "Who suffers the most when gas prices rise?". Lets take a look together at the issue and determine which social class is feeling the worse pain.

Focusing on headlines or absolute cost at times prevents us from seeing the true value.

With so much of the worlds economy based around the oil industry what is going to happen when it runs out.

If Israel attacks Iran, it would disrupt oil markets world-wide and likely send the price of oil past the record levels it set last year. We will all feel that at the pumps.

With oil prices through the roof, the internet will keep consumers informed about new automobiles, alternative fuels, and new technologies.

With oil prices making new record highs almost daily, there has been a lot of scuttlebutt about potential causes. Speculators, dollar devaluation, and even OPEC collusion have all been blamed for prices that seem to keep an inexorable upward momentum.

Stop me if I'm wrong here, but all this talk about the high price of oil really gets me hot under the collar. OK, so what does it come down to here? Man, I remember when a $20 bill would fill up your tank and buy you a soda and a pack of smokes.

Poem on the skyrocketing price of oil.

For the past hundred years, the world's largest consumer of energy (read, oil), by far, has been the United States. Oil at $100 a barrel is going to add several hundred billion dollars to The United States' energy bill.