Gas prices are nearly 70 cents higher than a year ago, but Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi says that current crude oil prices are “beautiful.”

Next year the oil companies will be required to buy 12.6 billion gallons of conventional corn ethanol, but because tax payers are giving them $5.85 billion they'll consume 1.4 billion more than required.

Spring is approaching, and gasoline prices are once again climbing. But you may not know that this ritual of climbing prices happens almost every year about this time. If you check the history of gasoline prices at the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) website you can see that gasoline prices ...

Gas prices drop in the United States, but rise in California.

Jeff Rubin - the former chief economist at ...

I am not a big believer in a commercial future for the biochemical conversion of cellulose into fuels. There are many big hurdles in place that are going to have to be overcome before cellulose is commercially converted to ethanol. In a nutshell, one is the logistical problem, which ...

[RR note: This blog occasionally posts guest posts, and energy investing is a topic that is visited on a fairly regular basis. The website Money Morning recently noticed that I had linked to one of their articles, and asked if I would be ...

After I wrote The Problem with CAFE a couple of years ago, a lot of people concluded that I am against higher CAFE standards. That's not exactly the case. In a nutshell, my problem with CAFE is that I feel like it addresses the problem from the wrong side ...

I don't actually enjoy posting "I told you so" stories, especially when the news is negative. This means someone has failed, and I don't enjoy seeing people fail. But when I put a spotlight on a company, naturally I am going to follow that company. If it does fail, then ...

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