Fuel Prices Are About to Skyrocket — Here Are the Real Reasons Why
By Robert Wheeler After a brief break in high fuel prices, those prices are now rising with a vengeance. Fuel prices are up more than…
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Texas Frozen Chaos Becomes Global Oil Market Nightmare With 40% Of US Crude Production Offline
By Tyler Durden One week ago, when virtually nobody was following the sudden surge in certain obscure mid-continent nat gas prices… … we warned that…
Steven Donziger Backed By Canadian Lawyers, NLG, IADL And Alec Baldwin Against Chevron – “The Harvey Weinstein” Of Oil Industry
By Aaron Kesel Amazonian lawyer Steven Donziger was given the backing by the International Association Of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and National Lawyers Guild (NLG.) Both…
The Oil Futures Crash Is a Warning to Gold Speculators
By Mike Gleason The metals complex showed relative stability this week as the oil market suffered a historic meltdown. West Texas Intermediate Crude crashed 70%…
Driven By The Dramatic Collapse Of US Shale, The Trump Administration Takes Aim At Venezuela
By Whitney Webb, The Last American Vagabond President Trump has claimed that the U.S. no longer needs foreign oil and is “energy independent.” Yet, the…
Radioactive Waste from Oil and Gas Wells Used to De-Ice Streets in 13 States. Ohio Bill Aims to Protect This.
By B.N. Frank If spreading radioactive waste on American roads was no big deal, environmentalists and scientists probably wouldn’t be freaking out; and, of course,…
US Debt Got Us Hooked on Petrodollars — and on Saudi Arabia
By Ryan McMaken The Iranian regime and the Saudi Arabian regime are longtime enemies, with both vying for control of the Persian Gulf region. Part…
Markets Reverse Losses Following Turmoil After Iran Attack (Updated)
By Tyler Durden S&P500 index futures erased their earlier crash, after tumbling more than 50 points following news Iran launched ballistic missiles at US airbases…
Now in Effect: California Law Hinders Federal Efforts to Expand Oil and Gas Drilling
By TJ Martinell SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Jan. 2, 2020) – Yesterday, a new law went into effect that prohibits the construction of pipelines or other infrastructure…
Jack Keane Shows Trump Maps Of Syrian Oil Fields To Keep U.S. Troops In Syria
By Joziah Thayer On October 7th, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. troops would be leaving Syria. This announcement knocked Warhawks off their perches in…
Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts
By Tyler Durden With protests and unrest raging in multiple hot spots around the globe from Latin America to Hong Kong to Lebanon and Iraq, it…
US Boosts Troop Numbers in East Syria to Control Oil
By Jason Ditz With several hundred US troops already planned to stay in Syria to “control the oil,” US convoys are sending more troops into Syria…
Pentagon Deploys US Forces to Defend Saudi Oil
By Jason Ditz The latest US military buildup into the Middle East was announced today, fresh off the Trump Administration’s briefing on “options” for responding…
Mike Pompeo Declares Drone Attack on Saudi Arabia an “Act of War”
By Jason Ditz The first US official to declare Iran to blame for Saturday’s drone attacks in Saudi Arabia, at a time when others were…