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U.S. to pass Saudi Arabia as top oil producer
Scott Tong Dec 10, 2012
A boom fueled by hydraulic fracturing of shale should add millions of jobs in the U.S. The question: How long will it last?
U.S. to become world's top oil producer
Jeff Horwich Nov 12, 2012
The International Energy Agency is forecasting that the U.S. will become the biggest oil producer in the world within the next decade.
A gas station...without gas?
Kai Ryssdal Nov 9, 2012
Gas stations in New York and New Jersey continue to face post-storm problems. Not having gas in their pumps.
You're price-gouging? Thank you very much
Scott Tong Nov 9, 2012
Price-gouging during natural disaster is illegal, and New Jersey is prosecuting some gas stations after Hurricane Sandy. But gouging also is a means for distributing more broadly, because it discourages hoarding.
Mayor Bloomberg institutes odd-even gas rationing
Kai Ryssdal Nov 8, 2012
Odd numbered license plates get to buy gas on odd numbered dates; evens on evens.
New Yorkers sell gas on the black market
Audrey Quinn Nov 6, 2012
New York's state attorney general investigates price gouging as Craigslist ads sell gas for $20 a gallon.
Education, economy help undecideds make their choice
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Nov 5, 2012
Loudoun County, Virginia fence-sitters explain what got them to commit.
Gas prices may continue to decline, despite Sandy
David Weinberg Oct 30, 2012
Northeastern refineries shut down because of the hurricane, but Sandy also shut down traffic across the region, saving far more gas than those refineries produce.
America's energy boom revives Ohio's steel industry
Scott Tong Dec 10, 2012
Every fracking well requires miles of pipe. The result is new investment in Ohio steel mills -- which also benefit from cheap natural gas for fuel.
The real energy gusher produced by Ohio fracking: Oil
Scott Tong Dec 10, 2012
The presidential campaign talks a lot about coal in Ohio, but the fossil fuel of the moment is oil. Fracking has made possible a second oil boom, more than a century after the state's first one.
