Gasoline prices have dropped below $2 a gallon at many locations in the Tampa Bay area and elsewhere due to fears that the swine flu outbreak could hurt summer travel. ...more

April 29, 2009

Gasoline prices in the Tampa Bay area will continue to rise as the summer vacation season, which runs from April to September, kicks off, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. ...more

April 15, 2009

Drivers may find a reason to hit the roads this summer as gas prices are forecast to remain relatively low. Here's a look at the numbers: ...more

April 15, 2009

Pump prices continued to tumble in the past week, falling more than 25 cents to a national average of $2.656 a gallon, new government figures show. In some places, gasoline is selling for less than $2 a gallon. ...more

October 28, 2008

Gasoline prices in the Tampa Bay area have plunged 28 cents a gallon in one week. ...more

October 13, 2008

Former Energy Department official Joseph Romm (writing in Gristmill) concisely answers the offshore drilling hoax: "... Lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling can't possibly reduce gasoline prices. After all, two years ago, we opened most of the Gulf of Mexico -- with its estimated 41 billion barrels of oil -- and oil prices then doubled." ...more

August 1, 2008

What's rising faster than gas prices this summer? Americans' worries about them. ...more

July 24, 2008

Bush is about to waste a second crisis, this one on energy addiction. I am reliably told by a Bush administration official that there is an old saying in Texas that goes like this: "If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got." ...more

July 23, 2008

As legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens tells the story, Republican Bob Dole wanted him to head up his 1996 presidential campaign in Texas. In return, Pickens wanted to be Dole's chief adviser on energy policy. ...more

July 21, 2008

Soaring fuel prices are damaging the U.S. economy, and the government should be doing whatever it can to slow or stop their astonishing ascent. ...more

July 8, 2008