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When will the public wake up to the risks posed by the Federal Reserve's easy money policy?

President Obama managed to double gas prices during his first term; will a second term bring us $8 a gallon?

The U.S. is awash in crude oil; the problem isn't a shortage of crude oil but our limited capacity to refine it into gasoline

With rising oil prices creating a drag on the economy and his own re-election effort, President Barack Obama mocked Republican critics of his alternative energy plans during an appearance in Maryland.

A crowd of hundreds at Prince George’s Community College awaits the arrival this morning of President Barack Obama, who is due to deliver the latest in a series of addresses on energy as rising oil costs create a drag on the economic recovery - and his own reelection effort.

Senate vote shows Republicans wrong about Keystone pipeline and U.S. energy policy

Robert Ehrlich champions the drill here, drill now mantra, but what about finding alternatives?

Fee to finance state study of gas drilling debated

Emergency operations officials in Harford County said persistent calls received about gas odors from several locations in the county early Friday morning appear to be related to fumes from an industrial plant in New Jersey – and no sources of leading gas have been found in the county.

The Jacksonville gasoline spill was devastating to community

The issue of the Keystone pipeline isn't nearly so simple as President Obama's detractors suggest.

The consequences of America's failure to invest in alternative energy sources will come back to haunt future generations

Keystone pipeline: Administration seems to be doing everything in its power to thwart America's quest for energy independence

Obama put re-election politics over the country's needs when he killed the Keystone XL pipeline

President Obama expands on ideas he presented in this week's State of the Union address.

President Obama likes to claim that his No. 1 priority is jobs, but the Keystone XL pipeline decision shows it's anything but.

Obama administration took the only sensible course available and put the risky Keystone XL pipeline on the shelf — at least temporarily

With savings accumulated from car-free lifestyle, a cyclist invests in oil stocks and expects to profit from rising prices at the pump

Environmentalism in the U.S. is stalled, with even President Obama an unreliable ally

Provisions regarding the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the payroll tax cut legislation currently before Congress could threaten Maryland's coastline

While China gobbles up oil and Russia cements its petroleum-for-influence scheme, the U.S. and Europe keep rejecting oil from the friendliest of neighbors, Canada.

The delay of the Keystone XL pipeline is one in a long series of decisions that has strangled the nation's economy, tied our fortunes to Middle East oil and ceded the advantage to China and other Asian economies.

The oil industry hates the proposed gas tax increase not because it will hurt consumers but because it will cut their profits by encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles

All politicians think about is raising taxes on the poor, even though the average worker is already taxed to the breaking point

Ralph H. Hemphill Jr., a former Crown Central Petroleum Corp. executive who later worked for the state Department of Agriculture, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. The former Towson resident was 89.

Ralph H. Hemphill Jr., a former Crown Central Petroleum Corp. executive who later worked for the state Department of Agriculture, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. The former Towson resident was 89.

Perry Hall man charged with selling $9 million worth of credits for nonexistent renewable fuel

Renewable Fuels: Fuels Company Owner Faces Charges

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude oil from Canada will increase the U.S. dependency on foreign fossil fuels and threaten the environment throughout the Midwest

With oil supplies expected to dwindle, now is the time to invest in renewable sources of energy, not in petroleum

Keystone pipeline will bring oil to America while green energy sources are developed

Hundreds of Americans are expected to be arrested in protests outside the White House over a proposed pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands petroleum to Texas.

NOAA is creating an inventory of more than 30,000 coastal shipwrecks — many casualties of the 1942 Battle of the Atlantic — and identify those that pose the most significant threat.

Constellation Energy Group has shed its minority stake in a gas and oil production company under a deal valued at $22.5 million.

Where theft is an accepted business practice

About those greedy oil companies and their allies

Obama's moratorium on off-shore oil drilling is driving up gas prices

With gas prices at $4 a gallon, it's time to repeal tax breaks for big oil companies

Domestic drilling could underwrite alternative energy

High gas prices don't benefit average Americans

Plenty of blame for high gas prices to go around

Domestic drilling for oil is no solution for higher gasoline prices

President Obama wants us to believe that profiteering is the reason for high gas prices, but he fails to take steps that could greatly reduce our dependence on the world oil market.

A year after the BP disaster, a faith-based approach to regulation endures