America's homegrown oil
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Much has been made of the United States&#146; voracious appetite for oil and the fact that much of it is imported from unstable parts of the world. What is often overlooked, however, is that the United States produces a good deal of oil domestically. Where does the United States rank among the world&#146;s top oil-producing nations as of 2005?
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British scientists say they have found a new, greener way to power cars and homes using sunflower oil, a commodity more commonly used for cooking fries.
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Oil prices have surged to two-week highs following news that supplies in the US are tightening. In New York on Thursday, the cost of a barrel of oil rose almost $2 to $44.
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Oil prices held steady on Thursday unfazed by a fall in crude supplies in the United States, where stocks are more than 20 million barrels above levels a year ago.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised U.S. farmers billions of dollars in disaster aid, along with research money toward new forms of ethanol, the renewable fuel spurring an economic bonanza for rural America.
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Oil held firm above $96 a barrel on Monday, heading for its biggest annual gain this decade as growing geopolitical concerns and dwindling consumer nation stockpiles outweighed the risk of a softening U.S. economy.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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Over the summer, rising oil prices meant higher gasoline costs for drivers in the United States. This winter, as crude oil touched $53 a barrel today, they will translate into higher heating bills for American households.
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By CRYSTALR. REID  North Dakota has coal, oil and, more recently, ethanol from its corn.  Its landscape is dotted with corn, wheat, canola, soybeans and pulse crops. In between sit conservation lands, open prairie with native grasses.
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A look back to the halcyon days of 15-cent-a-barrel oil, and a question about whether expensive oil is good or bad for us and the planet.
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Oil fell 3 percent to $61 a barrel on Monday as healthy fuel inventories in top consumer the United States countered plans by OPEC members Nigeria and Venezuela to trim output.
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Oil climbed above $61 to its highest level this year on Friday after top fuel consumer the United States reported an unexpected drop in gasoline stocks and Iran said it would show "no weakness" over its nuclear program.
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The absolute price of oil has reached a new high. The growth     of the economies in China, India and the rest of Asia are increasing the demand     for oil. There are production problems in Venezuela (strikes and sabotage), Norway (strikes), Nigeria (civil war), Iraq (sabotage) and Russia (internal politics). Hurricane Ivan and other hurricanes this year disrupted     production in the Gulf of Mexico and transportation of oil in the Atlantic.     In the next decade Eastern Europe will also require more oil to feed its growing economies. The price of crude oil has led to     prices of above $55 a barrel and lifted heating oil to a record and     natural gas to a 20-month high. Though prices may eventually fall a bit, they are likely to remain higher than we were once     accustomed.    However, all is not gloom and doom.
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NEW YORK -- America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel.
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Where does the volatility in oil prices come from and is it likely to persist?
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The Department of Energy issues a report detailing how continuing the current energy policy will increase our oil dependence for decades to come. In Autopia.
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America is drunk on ethanol -- Midwestern corn farmers, Detroit automakers, politicians approving subsidies and Bush shaking hands in Brazil, but ethanol isn't ready for primetime. By the Associated Press.