Sep 25th, 2008 · With refineries hobbled by Hurricane Ike, gas shortages are popping up across the South. Drivers in Atlanta, Nashville and other places are devising strategies to find gas. One approach: follow a fuel truck to see what station it is filling up.
Sep 17th, 2008 · Oil company officials say it may be more than a week before gasoline supply problems caused by Hurricane Ike are resolved. As many refineries regain electricity and attempt to reopen, gasoline remains in high demand.
Sep 14th, 2008 · Government officials are assessing the damage to oil refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ike idled nearly all of the region's oil and natural gas out and it could be several weeks before refineries are back at full capacity. Gasoline prices have begun to rise around the country.
Sep 12th, 2008 · Hurricane Ike is storming toward the Gulf Coast of Texas home to a quarter of the nation's oil refining capacity. As refineries shut down in anticipation of the storm, wholesale gasoline prices have shot up, despite crude oil prices falling to their lowest level in more than five months.
Jun 3rd, 2008 · The Senate voted Monday to take up a global warming bill that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by putting a price on carbon. That would essentially require factories, utilities and refineries to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide. The so-called cap-and-trade system aims to reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2050.
May 21st, 2008 · Mexico's state-run oil company is in crisis. Its aging refineries can no longer meet domestic demand, and reserves are dropping quickly. Mexico's president is pushing reform of the operation, but the proposal faces stiff resistance.
Dec 6th, 2007 · The House debates an energy bill Thursday that would raise fuel mileage standards for the first time in more than 30 years. That measure has bipartisan support, as does a provision to increase the amount of biofuels that refineries must use to make gasoline.
Nov 4th, 2007 · Hilton Kelley believes oil refineries are destroying Port Arthur, Texas, which has some of the largest producers of gasoline in the country. But many residents are impoverished, and Kelley says refineries have taken from Port Arthur for decades, dumping toxic waste on its residents and leaving the town in shambles.