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For drivers who've spent the summer feeding $20 bills into seemingly bottomless gasoline tanks and for homeowners dreading the cost of heat this winter, there was more good news yesterday: The price of crude oil dropped again and heating oil fell for...

Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history Thursday, but it took a beating, anyway — from politicians railing against Big Oil, drivers bleeding cash at the pump and investors who expected more. The world's largest...

President Bush lifted a long-standing White House ban Monday on new oil and gas drilling off the nation's coastlines and pressured Congress to take a similar step, stoking the battle over how Washington should respond to high gasoline prices. Bush's...

The farmer drove a diesel-powered hay baler in a circuit around his field, followed by his son on a clattering machine that grabbed the bales with metal fingers. Edward F. Stanfield, 77, and his son, Edward B. Stanfield, 49, have followed this oil-...

One of the dirtiest jobs in Howard and Anne Arundel counties could soon be one of the cleanest for the atmosphere. The neighboring jurisdictions plan to establish the state's first natural-gas fueling station for trash trucks and have applied to the...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) is breaking with House leadership - and other Long Island Democrats - in saying she would consider lifting a ban on offshore oil drilling as proposed by President George W. Bush yesterday. The local waters...

The solution du jour for brutal gas prices is offshore drilling. President George W. Bush shifted course last week and called for a break with 26 years of bipartisan policy restricting drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. He wants Congress to give...

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by Frank James House Democrats responded to President Bush's proposal to end the moratorium on drilling for oil offshore as well as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by telling the president to drop dead, although they used a......

DITCH THE GAS GUZZLER Trading in a vehicle that gets 20 mpg for one that gets 30 mpg would help pay for a new HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player. Savings $775 per year (based on 15,000 miles) Note: Cost savings are based on an assumed fuel price of $3.10 per gallon....

An ACE Hardware store in Celebration is jumping on the green bandwagon. The hardware store is the first franchise in the country to carry biodegradable motor oil and car cleaning products, according to a news release issued Tuesday. "We've received a...