Oil market pricing formulae and the benchmarks used in those formulae change over time as crude production that had been the basis for indiv...

In each of the past four years the spot oil market has traded around US$80 per barrel (see chart 1 below). Over that time, we have seen a hi...

Vehicle brand loyality in the US is dead ( NYTimes ). The shift in vehicle purchasing considerations toward value and efficiency and away fr...

I appeared live on Bloomberg TV earlier today to discuss oil. Oil may rise to $95 a barrel this year as demand for heating fuel kicks in an...

An audio interview I had with the highly respected Jim Puplava of Financial Sense Newshour is here . Toward the end of the interview Jim s...

(click chart to enlarge) Crude oil hit a new high for the year 2009 today, crossing above US$78 per barrel.  We have finally broken out of ...

Do you have ideas to improve Oil 101 and/or this web site? The primary goal of the book and this site is to improve understanding of energy...

The US cash for clunkers program was designed to stimulate economic growth through the auto industry by encouraging individuals to trade in ...

Source: EIA and IEA data.  Chart from Page 7, Fig. 1-3, Oil 101 There have been a  number of stories over the past week about the growth...

The IEA this morning raised its 2010 forecasted oil demand by 0.35 million barrels per day (Mb/d) to 86.1 Mb/d. This means 2010 oil demand...