Dollar Value Loss On July 8, Tom Cannariato implied we can drill our way to energy independence and cheaper oil. Dallas Dunlap is more perceptive of the real world. When oil was $9 a barrel, it was far cheaper to buy it than it was to produce it ourselves, so nobody cared. Who does Tom think will pay the billions for exploration, rigs, pipelines, refineries and manpower? You will. How much more of your tax money should be used to subsidize the oil companies? Add that to the cost; so much for cheaper. You pay for all hurricane destruction, too. ...more

July 23, 2008

The national debate over opening more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration has begged the question: Just what are the companies doing with the tens of millions of acres they're already leasing from the federal government? ...more

July 21, 2008

Just A Ponzi Scheme Regarding "Being Right About Social Security Can Make McCain Sound Wrong" (Our Opinion, July 10): ...more

July 19, 2008

Green Not So Green I have a dilemma that I need the liberal global warming alarmists to help me with. If we go to "electric" cars, I foresee a conflict of interest. Do I demonstrate my "greenness" by having an electric-powered rollerskate, thereby increasing the demand of electricty, thereby increasing the amount of coal or nuclear power usage while thumbing my nose at the oil companies? ...more

July 18, 2008

The U.S. House of Representatives killed a bill Thursday that Democrats, including Kathy Castor, had pushed as a way to spur drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 18, 2008

The House today killed a bill that Democrats including Kathy Castor had pushed as a way to spur more drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 17, 2008

Re: Frances Earl's Call to Patriots in the July 10 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

July 15, 2008

There are two ways to look at the Tampa Bay Rays' "Fill Up the Trop" promotion with Hess Express, scheduled for July 18 against the Toronto Blue Jays. ...more

July 12, 2008

Our politicians are asking us to allow offshore and wildlife refuge drilling to increase the amount of oil available and lower gas prices. These requests make a rational mind believe we must have run out of land to develop for oil. Nothing could be further from the truth. ...more

July 9, 2008

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. ...more

July 4, 2008