Ban Lifting Gets Results According to an Opinion Research Corporation poll, 73 percent of people surveyed agree with John McCain, favoring more drilling for oil. On July 15, President Bush, who has long promoted offshore drilling, heard the people and lifted the executive branch ban on offshore drilling. ...more

July 25, 2008

Borrowers' Responsibility Regarding "Feds Adopt Plan To Protect Borrowers From Shady Lending Practices" (Nation/World, July 14): ...more

July 19, 2008

Listen up, people. We're seeing a lot of hysterical arm-waving and hearing loud voices demanding that "they" do something to bring down the price of the gasoline we pump into our essential means of getting where we want to go when we want to go there. ...more

July 9, 2008

Has anyone thought of renaming the toll road running through the middle of Pasco and Hernando counties the "Cone Porkway"? ...more

July 6, 2008

Forcing Alternatives Regarding "OPEC Gets A Pass On Antitrust Laws" (Other Views, June 25): ...more

July 1, 2008

SAUDI ARABIA - King Abdullah has blamed soaring oil prices on speculators, high fuel taxes in consuming countries and increased consumption in developing countries. ...more

June 22, 2008

Estela Roberts and her family have always hoped they would be compensated one day for their property in Cuba seized after that country's 1959 revolution. ...more

June 17, 2008

It's frustrating enough when gas prices soar due to the unseen forces of global supply and demand. But it's downright unfair when Wall Street speculators contribute to rising prices at the pump. ...more

June 13, 2008

Hurricane season has begun. But this time the storm threatens to be bigger even than that which struck New Orleans. Not a physical storm but a storm of houses facing foreclosure, families uprooted, whole neighborhoods blighted by unseen forces. No, we do not have people stranded on the roof. ...more

June 11, 2008

Price Of Gas ...more

June 2, 2008