Energy companies are fiercely competitive, holding prices down, and they have made huge investments in technology to reduce the cost of getting oil out of the ground and below the sea.

For the Bush Administration, the energy problem is an opportunity to teach the country an economics lesson, but the issue may give Democrats an even greater opportunity, because politics is a short-term business.

A new book's cartoonish view of development mars a keen portrait of India today.

Most people believe France is opposed to the U.S. position on Iraq because of its own financial and oil interests in Iraq, according to a February 11-12 poll.

Is the science on global warming totally settled? Think again.

From the now-failing marriage of Larry and Laurie David come lessons about environmental hypocrisy.

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The great "values" divide has transformed a debate over fuel-economy standards into a cultural showdown and, in the process, demolished any hope for a new federal energy policy.