Articles tagged “oil”

The sight of oil wells isn't the best thing for tourism, but absolute dependency on one industry doesn't look so hot either.

A great eternal struggle, between the indigenous community trying to get out of poverty, and big oil using that as leverage to get what they want.

Ryanair is lots of things -- cheap, rude, penny-pinching, insulting, classless -- but it's likely not so stupid as to toy with safety issues like lack of fuel.

David Neeleman is turning to the time-tested tradition of offering a monetary incentive to the first innovators to turn natural gas into jet fuel for half the cost of the current process at $80 per barrel.

Despite the fact that gulf tourism ended for at least a year, small hotels are struggling under the weight of proving the exact nature of their losses in 2010 and 2011.

Nobody likes a fare hike, but it's preferable to the shady practice of adding fuel surcharges that don't actually correspond to actual fuel charges.

Is Saudi Arabia, a nation with one of the largest oil reserves, warning the rest of the world to curb fuel use by accepting bids to build its first electric subway, or do they simply benefit by selling more oil abroad?