Ukraine, which is de facto at war with Russia, got a five-year gas transit contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, and will likely get a 25 percent discount for direct supplies of Russian natural...
In the early 2000s, Venezuela was living an extensive oil bonanza. With Chávez in power, expenses were also increased when granting bonds to part of the population, making investments in projects...
In junior secondary school, one of my teachers used the following example to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy: potential energy is the energy a ball possesses when...
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” So said the former...
On July 9, in keeping with the referendum vote that took place in January, The Republic of South Sudan became the world’s 195th sovereign state. South Sudan’s brand new news journal, The South...
Thursday afternoon, for a brief second, it seemed like there was to be yet another disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Five months after the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and causing the...
I've written so often that New Orleans is like a lost love I can't bear to see again that it's become a cliche, party of one. I haven't been back since 2002, you see, and this year once again I...
I can think of great political reasons why President Obama wants to create a six-month drilling ban on new deep-water oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. There are millions of gallons of oily black...
President Obama has received significant criticism over his handling of the BP oil spill. Some of the criticism lacks much legitimacy; after all, Obama can’t personally go stop the oil spill. Obama...
A clip on Rachel Maddow's show Thursday showed that the oil leak still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico bears an uncanny resemblance to one from 1979. Each one of the failed containment plans (top...