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Oil Prices Approach All-Time High

Hopes set on sign from OPEC meeting that production will increase

Sep 7, 07 3:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The price of oil approached a record high yesterday, hiking interest in next week’s OPEC meeting in Vienna, where observers hope the association will give some positive sign that production will increase. OPEC, however, seems divided on the matter, with the group’s president calling the market “very... More »

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oil • Middle East • gas • OPEC • gas prices • oil supply

US Gas Supplies Hit 2-Year Low

Drop coincides with end of summer vacation season

Sep 6, 07 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's gas inventory slipped last week to its lowest level since Hurricane Katrina decimated stockpiles 2 years ago, but officials aren't worried. "We're at the end of the summer and demand should start declining over the next several weeks," one analyst told Reuters. The current supply is... More »

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gas • energy prices • gas prices • oil refineries

Labor Day Traffic Forecast: Not Quite as Bad

With gas cheaper, 28.9M expected to hit road this weekend

Aug 29, 07 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 29 million people will travel by car during the upcoming Labor Day weekend, AAA reports—slightly fewer than last year, despite lower gas prices. A gallon averages $2.75, down 10 cents from last Labor Day. The overall number of travelers this holiday weekend is expected to go up,... More »

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travel • traffic • family • vacation • gas prices • AAA • Labor Day • holiday

Weak Wal-Mart Profits Turn Smiles Upside-Down

Stock dips in early trading on anemic report

Aug 14, 07 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wal-Mart stock saw its biggest dip in five years in early trading this morning, after Q2 profits rose less than analysts had expected. The Arkansas-based behemoth says full-year profit will total $3.13 a share, 3 cents lighter than its projections: Bloomberg reports that surging gas prices, faltering home sales... More »

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stock market • retail • consumer • stocks • shares • H. Lee Scott • spending • gas prices • mortgage rates • Wal-Mart

Iraq's Power Grid Is Near Collapse

Insurgents target plants, and provinces are disconnecting from the system

Aug 4, 07 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq’s power grid is teetering on the edge of collapse as insurgents destroy almost any attempt to restore power and the country’s fractured government is stalled, the AP reports. With enough power for only half of demand, there have been four nationwide blackouts in the last two days.... More »

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Iraq • energy • insurgents • power grid • power • gas prices

Senate Passes Energy Bill

Vehicles must hit a green 35mpg
by 2020; Detroit seeing red

Jun 22, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate gave a green light to an energy plan that would pump total fuel-economy standards to 35 mpg by 2020, and require vehicles to run on 85% ethanol by 2015. Democrats say the bill will reduce America's reliance on foreign oil, help control gas prices and counteract the effects... More »

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energy • global warming • ethanol • Senate • Detroit • Dianne Feinstein • House of Representatives • fuel • gas prices • auto industry

Scientists Sweeten on Fruit Fuel

To get to core of gas problem, pick apples over ethanol, say studies

Jun 21, 07 4:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Simple sugars found in fruits like apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of bio-based car fuel that provides more energy than ethanol, the current hip gas alternative. US researchers say the dimethylfuran can store 40 percent more energy and is less volatile than its corn-based cousin,... More »

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energy • ethanol • gas • biofuel • dimethylfuran • fuel • gas prices

Nothing We Can Do About Those Prices, Says OPEC

It's not us, it's those stingy refiners

May 25, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gas prices are soaring, but OPEC says that there's nothing it can do. Historically, the cartel has made big efforts to increase production when prices spike, but not his time, the Wall Street Journal reports. Members of OPEC say that there's plenty of crude being pumped; instead, the price increases... More »

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oil • gas • OPEC • fuel • gas prices

Biofuels Bump Pump Prices

Government's ethanol push helps slow refinery expansion, boosting costs

May 24, 07 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four-dollar gas? Blame biofuels, the oil industry says. Construction of new refinery capacity is on hold thanks to government regulations that will soon require oil companies to produce biofuels such as ethanol. Uncertain standards for biofuels, which may render new refineries useless, have led oil companies to rethink expansion plans—... More »

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ethanol • gas • biofuel • fuel • gas prices

Gas Spikes to All-Time Record

Pump pain hits consumer spending

May 21, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gas hit a record high of $3.18 yesterday, soaring past the previous all-time high, the inflation-adjusted 1981 price of $3.15 per gallon. A spate of fires and power outages have crippled the nation's refineries, sending prices soaring even as crude oil costs drop. That's turning consumers away from... More »

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