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| House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
(Reuters) |
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080723/bs_nm/fannie_freddie_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080724/2008_07_23t140427_450x313_us_fannie_freddie.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=.uSP3nk3DM8aLXWFYhK4zA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="President Bush on Wednesday dropped a threat to veto a housing rescue bill, clearing the way for measures meant to shore up the worst U.S. home market since the Great Depression. (Paul Szep/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.</p><br clear="all"/> |
 Source: Yahoo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:30:17 GMT |
| Amazon profit, sales above view and shares rise
(Reuters) |
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080724/bs_nm/amazon_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080724/2008_07_23t163759_450x339_us_amazon_results.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=IJnR.x4f88ME04ISwXXMzQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Amazon.com Inc said on
Wednesday quarterly profit doubled and sales grew 41 percent,
indicating to Wall Street that many cost-conscious shoppers are
heading online to save money in a tough economy.</p><br clear="all"/> |
| Source: Yahoo Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:51:14 GMT |
| SemGroup gets court OK for initial bankruptcy motions
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - SemGroup LP, an Oklahoma-based oil
trading services company, on Wednesday said it received
approval from the Bankruptcy Court for its initial motions
related to its bankruptcy. |
| Source: Yahoo Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:12:54 GMT |
| Microsoft exec who led Yahoo bid leaving company
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's
largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of
Yahoo Inc , is leaving the software maker. |
| Source: Yahoo Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:23:18 GMT |
| Tupperware reports slightly higher quarterly profit
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Tupperware Brands Corp ,
whose food storage containers are sold at in-home parties,
posted slightly higher quarterly net income on Wednesday,
boosted by strong sales in all five of its business segments. |
| Source: Yahoo Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:11:36 GMT |
| Sluggish Economy Slows 'Somewhat' As Oil Squeezes Spending, Fed Reports
(Investor's Business Daily) |
| Investor's Business Daily - The economy has slowed "somewhat" as rising energy prices and the credit crunch force consumers to cut back, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. |
| Source: Yahoo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:01:50 GMT |
| Economy - Wednesday
(Investor's Business Daily) |
| Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Assoc.'s mortgage applications index fell 6.2% in the week ended July 18 to 489.6 as 30-year mortgage rates rose 0.37 point 15 6.59%, the highest in a year. The purchase index fell 6.7% to 335.6 and the refi index fell 5.6% to 1392.7. Financial turmoil has caused interest rates to rise while soaring home-loan defaults have forced banks to curb credit, deepening the housing slump. |
| Source: Yahoo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:36:43 GMT |
| Ethan Allen quarterly profit drops 46 percent
(Reuters) |
| Reuters - Furniture retailer Ethan Allen
Interiors reported a 46 percent drop in quarterly
profit on Wednesday, hurt by declining sales and charges to
restructure and close some of its design centers. |
| Source: Yahoo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:55 GMT |
| Microsoft 'leapfrogs' Oracle with DATAllegro buy, analyst says |
| Microsoft will buy DATAllegro, a data warehouse appliance maker, in a move that should help the software maker gain a technical edge over Oracle in the high-performance business intelligence market.
<p><a href="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~a/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News?a=NPw8rJ"><img src="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~a/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News?i=NPw8rJ" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News/~4/344895186" height="1" width="1"/> |
| Source: Computer World Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| TSA leans on BI to save $100 million |
| The Transportation Security Administration credits the use of business intelligence tools for saving $100 million in worker management costs over the past two years.
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| Source: Computer World Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| Podcast: Work Less. Deliver More. |
| We are talking about fewer reports to create & schedule. Automatic report delivery day or night. Secure end user access to live interactive reports. Learn how in this complimentary podcast with Crystal Reports Server 2008 - take the rush out of IT.
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| Source: Computer World Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| No Entry to SAP Site for Business Objects Users |
| SAP switched Business Objects customers to its online support system this month. But many users have yet to receive their log-in credentials, leaving them unable to access SAPs support portal.
<p><a href="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~a/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News?a=8PNDlS"><img src="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~a/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News?i=8PNDlS" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/Business/Intelligence/News/~4/341186673" height="1" width="1"/> |
| Source: Computer World Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| Business Objects users angry over online support shift by SAP |
| SAP switched Business Objects users to its own online support site this month, six months after buying the BI vendor. But many of the affected users haven't been able to access the SAP site.
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| Source: Computer World Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| Microsoft buys Zoomix to add data quality to SQL Server |
| Data-quality software helps automate the process of ensuring that data being entered and stored -- and later mined for decision-making -- is the most accurate.
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| Source: Computer World Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| More Business Intelligence News... |
| View more Business Intelligence news and analysis from Computerworld.com.
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| Source: Computer World |
| Yahoo Profit Falls, CFO Says 2008 Outlook Intact |
| CFO Blake Jorgensen says Yahoo is not changing its outlook for fiscal 2008 despite a 19 percent revenue drop in the second quarter. With the latest failed Microsoft acquisition bid behind it, CEO Jerry Yang says Yahoo will continue to look at transactions and/or financial options. <br/> - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Yahoo Inc's quarterly net profit fell 19 percent but investors took heart that it did not change its outlook despite a weakening U.S. economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's failed takeover bid.
Shares of the Internet company, which just settled a proxy battle with a...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:06:01 -0400 |
| Integrating SAAS and Legacy Apps in the Enterprise |
| As enterprises adopt the SAAS model for a number of reasons, integrating hosted on-demand applications such as those from Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow with on-premises legacy software from vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Infor becomes a critical issue.<br/> - The SAAS model is very attractive for a number
of reasons. A software-as-a-service subscription model puts the onus on vendors
to deliver the goods every month, and the underlying economics of multitenancy
mean that vendors can continue improving and adding functionality at
relatively low cost w...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:19 -0400 |
| SAP to End TomorrowNow Application Support Operations |
| SAP says it will shut down the remaining TomorrowNow application support services by Oct. 31. Current TomorrowNow customers will transition to other third-party support services or to Oracle.<br/> - SAP is going to kill off its
ill-fated TomorrowNow acquisition by winding down its
remaining application support operations by the end of October.
SAP is locked in a bruising legal battle
with Oracle, which claims that TomorrowNow illegally downloaded copyrighted
Oracle product support docume...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:33:01 -0400 |
| Facebook Redesigns Web Site |
| The sweeping redesign by Facebook is aimed at giving users of the social networking site more control and better security. Facebook user profiles also will be more dynamic.<br/> - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc. is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said late on Sunday.
Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more promin...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:06:17 -0400 |
| Yahoo, Carl Icahn Settle Before Proxy Fight |
| Yahoo and Carl Icahn comes to terms on a deal that will give Icahn and two others of his choosing seats on Yahoo's board. Yahoo will nominate 8 of it current directors for re-election as it seeks to placate shareholders put off by its stubborn resistance to Microsoft's advances.<br/> - Yahoo and activist investor Carl Icahn settled their pending proxy contest July 21, with Icahn agreeing to joining Yahoo's board.
Icahn, who smelled Yahoo's blood in the water in May after shareholders expressed anger that the Internet company didn't strike a deal with Microsoft, had vowed to rep...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:41:44 -0400 |
| Lawmakers Seek Opt-in Regime for NebuAd |
| Rejecting NebuAd's deep packet inspection model, Ed Markey calls for user permission before ISPs could deploy the DPI technology, which tracks Web users' complete travels over the Internet and serves up ads based on those patterns. ISP customers can opt out of the online advertising program but not online tracking.<br/> - It has not been a good few months for NebuAd, the Silicon Valley
startup pushing DPI, or deep packet inspection, as a source of new revenue for ISPs.
Without a user's consent, NebuAd collects information about the user's browsing
history and serves up ads based on those travels.
Privacy advocate...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:11:50 -0400 |
| Providing Real-Time Shopper Metrics |
| VideoMining launches a Web-based analytics tool designed to give retailers more insight into what customers are doing in their stores.<br/> - VideoMining, which sells in-store CRM solutions
and analytics, is rolling out VideoMining Online, an Internet application
designed to enable real-time access to shopper metrics.
Announced July 15 at the IIR Shopper Insights in Action Conference, in Chicago,
VideoMining Online helps automate the ...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:29:13 -0400 |
| Improving the Customer Experience |
| Tomax links its Retail.net and CXA offerings to WHI's Nexpart modules to improve customer service for automotive retailers.<br/> - Enterprise retail solutions
provider Tomax and WHI Solutions, a
specialist in technology for automotive retailers and wholesalers, are
integrating key solutions to improve the customer experience of the automotive
service business.
Announced July 9, the partnership integrates the Tomax Retail.n...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:22:38 -0400 |
| SAP Imposes Single-Tier ERP Support Program |
| SAP is moving all its customers to a single-tier Enterprise Support program regardless of size and IT budget.<br/> - SAP is taking a one-size-fits-all approach to product maintenance,
in which customers of all sizes will be switched to an Enterprise
Support program regardless of their size or IT budgets.
SAP will start transitioning current customers into Enterprise
Support this month at no additional cost, b...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:47:46 -0400 |
| Oracle, Salesforce.com Jump on iPhone Bandwagon |
| Apple's iPhone SDK lets Oracle and Salesforce.com quickly build applications to access CRM and Business Intelligence data over the Web.<br/> - In a clear sign that iPhones are rapidly winning acceptance in the corporate world, both Oracle and Salesforce.com wasted no time enabling iPhone to connect to their business applications online.
Oracle on July 10 released the first in a series of free front end business applications that will let ...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:56:47 -0400 |
| Microsoft Gears Up for Midmarket Server Blitz |
| Microsoft gives its partners a better look at the Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. The Microsoft products are aimed at the SMB and midmarket segments.<br/> - HOUSTON Microsoft is gearing up for the release of its Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.
Although the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held here July 7-10 was the companys opportunity to introduce the technologies to its partners, Microsoft will o...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: eWeek Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:52:53 -0400 |
| Microsoft Exec Who Led Yahoo Buyout Team to Leave |
| Kevin Johnson, the Microsoft executive in charge of Windows and Web operations and an key player in the company's (thus far?) failed bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving the company to become CEO at Juniper Networks. It's unclear whether he jumped or was pushed.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT |
| The Broadband Boom May Be Over |
| AT&T reports a measly 46,000 broadband subscribers added during the second quarter, down from nearly half a million in the first quarter. The numbers imply that broadband growth has come to a screeching, painful halt. The news doesn't bode well for other broadband providers.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:38:00 GMT |
| Electronics Giants to Create Wireless HD Standard |
| Wireless HD video gets a big boost as Sony, Samsung Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi join forces to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals from a single set-top box to screens around the home. Consortium members Sony and Samsung also support a competing technology, but at least the race is on.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:31:00 GMT |
| Yahoo Q2 Profit Down, Below Analyst Views |
| Yahoo's performance isn't as bad as many investors feared after its rival, search and advertising leader Google Inc., posted second-quarter earnings that disappointed Wall Street last week.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:20:00 GMT |
| EMusic Extends Into Social Networks |
| The DRM-free music retailer eMusic has linked up with several Web 2.0
hotspots to give subscribers more bang for their buck and allow them
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| Source: Wired Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:12:00 GMT |
| TiVo to Cash In on Couch Potato Commerce |
| TiVo is looking for new ways to generate revenue from its existing subscriber base. Its most recent plan: Let subscribers shop through Amazon while watching TV.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:20:15 GMT |
| Microsoft to Sell Home-Brewed Xbox Games, Share Revenue |
| Microsoft announces its going to let home-brew gamemakers sell their games to other Xbox 360 owners online, and take a share of the revenue.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT |
| Macs, iPods Carry Apple to Record-Setting Revenues |
| Record-setting Mac computer sales, plus robust iPod sales, helped propel Apple to high revenues and earnings in its fiscal third quarter. Nevertheless, jittery investors pummel the stock in after-hours trading, focusing on the company's cautions regarding its upcoming fourth quarter.<br style="clear: both;"/>
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| Source: Wired Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:00 GMT |
| Turns Out Porn Isn't Recession-Proof |
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<p>The cover of a recent <cite>BusinessWeek</cite> about the runup in oil and gasoline prices framed the question of what's causing it nicely: "Speculation or Manipulation?" But the story was maddeningly evenhanded. By dodging its own question, the magazine raised another.</p>
<p>When it comes to the cost of gasoline, who should we believe? Here are some nominees and their viewpoints:</p>
<p>1. The oil companies: It's supply and demand at its most basic, just like your professor outlined in your freshman economics course.</p>
<p>2. The petro-toadies in Congress: All we have to do is open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the waters off Florida and California.</p>
<p>3. The Department of Energy: OPEC has to pump more, and we've got to allow more refineries by rolling back environmental restrictions.</p>
<p>4. King Abdullah: OPEC pumps plenty of crude but "despicable" oil-futures speculators in the West are driving up the prices due to their "selfishness."</p>
<p>5. Senator John McCain: Exxon Mobil has done such a good job of demonstrating the magic of the marketplace that it deserves another $1.2 billion in tax breaks.</p>
<p>6. Senator Barack Obama: Impose a windfall-profits tax to remind American oil executives that price gouging can backfire politically.</p>
<p>7. About 90 percent of the print and TV reporters in America: See No. 1. It really is that ol’ devil supply and demand.</p>
<p>8. The White House: Never mind. Nobody’s home.</p>
<p>For my money, a sounder answer as to whom to believe is Don Barlett and Jim Steele, the investigative reporting team that has won two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards for exposing government theft and corporate greed. Their 2003 series for <cite>Time</cite> magazine on oil economics remains required reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of how gas at $4 to $5 a gallon represents a carefully arranged screwing of consumers.</p>
<p>"The bottom line for the oil people is, 'How much can I make while spending the least I can get by with on refineries, synthetic fuels, and for exploration and drilling on the vast, unused acreage in existing oil leases?'" Barlett says. He notes that Canada has become the United States' No. 1 oil supplier by funding joint government- industry exploration of the tar-sand fields of Alberta. "The most chilling statistic is Exxon Mobil's. It spent twice as much last year to buy back stock as it did on exploration."</p>
<p>As for shallow journalism that helps Big Oil, Steele makes the point that the newsrooms that were once staffed by the redistributionist children of the New Deal and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. are now populated with the children of Reaganomics: "Younger reporters come out of a mind-set that the market rules, taxes are evil, and government ought to let these people in the oil industry go about their business."</p>
<p>As journalism has passed from a hungry to an elite profession, there's no shock value in the fact that Exxon Mobil paid only $5 billion in U.S. income taxes last year while it paid $25 billion to foreign governments. Even with Exxon Mobil making $76,000 a minute, the last thing that occurs to many assignment editors and reporters is to investigate whether a windfall-profits tax would drive Exxon Mobil, BP, and other oil companies to invest in the alternative-energy strategies they boast about in their television commercials.</p>
<p>Then there's the problem of letting general-assignment reporters, rather than energy specialists, cover gasoline prices mainly as a story of consumer suffering. About 40 percent of U.S. oil is produced domestically, and Washington has declined to regulate auto fuel as an essential commodity. That's where the vertical integration of a giant like Exxon Mobil creates market leverage. It owns oil fields, processing plants, and retail outlets, creating some monopoly-like advantages in controlling supply and fixing prices in the U.S. market. Then there is the remarkable job that the oil companies have done in persuading network-TV anchors and correspondents to depict them as they want to be seen: powerless victims of a supply-and-demand cycle that is as immutable as gravity and as random as lightning. Congress, responding to demands for tougher laws on oil speculation, would prefer to blame environmental regulations. Much of the context-free reporting about what the executives say, in Congress and on television, is marked by breathtaking gullibility.</p>
<p>Speaking of television, no one of any age can doubt that the industry's star performer in the public relations battle over gasoline prices is Rex Tillerson, chairman and C.E.O. of Exxon Mobil. His appearances on the <cite>Today</cite> show have become five-minute promos for price escalation, with Matt Lauer cast as the surrogate for a nation of consumers who don't fully understand their role—helpless and sacrificial—while the company maximizes shareholder value, "our reason for being."</p>
<p>This is a "demand-driven price run-up, no question about it," Tillerson drawls, fingers intertwined and as fidget-free as Chance the Gardener. Lauer gamely zeroes in on Exxon Mobil's dirty secret—that it spends only 5.3 percent of revenue on exploration at a time of record revenue. "If you're making $400 billion a year, should consumers expect you to pay or spend even more on exploration?" Lauer asks.</p>
<p>The unflappable Tillerson describes this modest expenditure as "very, very robust." He adds, with apparent conviction, "We would do more if we could gain access to more areas." In other words, give us ANWR, then we can talk price at the pump. In fact, no unbiased expert claims that exploiting the fields in the Alaskan wilderness would cause more than a bump in world supply or prices in the U.S. By the way, Tillerson observes, the industry needs more refineries too.</p>
<p>Lauer, charmingly outpointed at every turn, finally blurts, "Mr. Tillerson, you're always nice with your time."
<p>"My pleasure, Matt," the oil king rumbles, not a hair out of place on his salt-and-pepper corporate coif.</p>
<p>And it was, no doubt, a pleasure for him to slip out of Rockefeller Center, built with Standard Oil dollars accrued in an earlier era of rapacious pricing, without addressing the oil-company claims that are most easily disproved by that old-fashioned journalistic method called reporting. The plain truth is that the record profits cited by Lauer—$10.9 billion in the first quarter of this year for Exxon Mobil—reflect an industrywide decision to flow revenue directly to the bottom line rather than to capital expenditure. To buy Tillerson's story, you'd have to believe that profit is an accident, when it is, irrefutably, the result of a company strategy tailored to this unique moment of opportunity.</p>
<p>Oil executives generally believe in an updated version of the peak-oil theory, introduced in 1956 by geologist M. King Hubbert. It posits that because of oil-field depletion and the expense of production, American-oil-industry output will reach a maximum level and then start to decline. An updated version of Hubbert's bell curve—which factors in the number of wells being drilled and refinery capacity—sets the year that the peak will be reached at 2020. If you're getting a prime price for a product that will be harder to acquire in a few years and less valuable due to competition from other fuels, the smart play, obviously, is to divert every penny into profit while the Black Gold Casino is still open. To confuse the press and public, you set up several straw men to take the blame for the supply shortage that you’ve seen coming for a half-century: refinery capacity, environmental legislation, and the imaginary supply potential in undrilled portions of the continental shelf and ANWR.</p>
<p>But let's look at the Cheneyesque fantasy that drilling in ANWR is a major national-security priority that would make us less dependent on foreign oil. The fact is, the Trans-Alaska pipeline that is supposed to bring us that new ANWR oil probably couldn't handle it right now because lack of maintenance has left it in bad shape. (Business Journalism 101: You can reinvest revenue in infrastructure or pull the money out as profit.) Plus, there's not enough Alaskan oil to affect price. It would be gone in a few months if we could pump it at maximum capacity. From a national-security standpoint, the smart thing would be to leave it in the ground for use in case of some future civilization-threatening cataclysm.</p>
<p>Oil-friendly members of Congress like to blame environmental regulation for the lack of refinery capacity. But the oil companies themselves choked supply by closing more than half of their 300 U.S. refineries in the past 25 years. (Business Journalism 201: You can reinvest in manufacturing capacity or ride the demand curve to higher profits.) Studies by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a respected, oil-friendly consulting firm, indicate that even if all environmental regulations were removed from refinery construction, few would probably be built right away because of a 75 percent rise in construction costs since 2000, largely driven by the increased fuel cost of transporting building materials.</p>
<p>I don't mean to imply that when it comes to cutting through industry and congressional malarkey, Barlett and Steele are the only game in town. The <cite>Chicago Tribune</cite>, the <cite>Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly</cite>, and other publications have all done credible oil series during the past few years. The problem is that headlines on today's pump prices trump the revelations of yesterday's in-depth reporting. The digital-news era is good at letting us know what happens now. But it's lousy at reminding us of what's happening again. Take the richly symbolic case of ANWR. Oil executives know that they haven't explored 80 percent of their existing leases in the continental U.S., according to Barlett. But they also know that if they can crack the wildlife refuge, Congress will lack the political will to keep them away from the other government land and the ocean floor they covet. In that sense, ANWR fits a historical leitmotif. For more than a century, oil companies have been gaming the federal oil-leasing system to receive bargain prices on the raw materials under public ownership.</p>
<p>Oil companies have always depended on the transfer of unpumped oil from public to private ownership. In the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s, oilmen bribed officials at the Interior Department to gain ownership of an oil field owned by the U.S. Navy. With ANWR and the offshore leases, everything will look aboveboard if Congress and consumers can be whipped into a demand-driven frenzy. Oil companies will blame the Arabs and environmentalists for a supply shortage they've maintained as a matter of policy since the days when the Texas Railroad Commission set quotas on how much oil could be pumped out of the ground.</p>
<p>Decade after decade, the oil companies claim that they would pump more if only they were allowed to. Barlett calls it playing the short-supply card. "Every freaking reporter out there falls for it," he says. "And if I'm the P.R. guy for an oil company, I’m going to play that sucker for all it’s worth."</p>
<p>Supply and demand? Sure, but as John Lee, a business journalist at the <cite>Wall Street Journal</cite> and the <cite>New York Times</cite> for many years, reminds me, supply and demand in oil are not just "two pie charts—where it comes from, where it goes, measured maybe five years ago." There are more complex reasons for pain at the pump. "American gasoline prices have always reflected the latest spot price, namely what you have to pay to buy bulk gasoline on the open market. This is last-in pricing, rather than pricing based on inventory costs."</p>
<p>Now, let's say you're an oil company selling bulk gasoline, and suppose your inventory contains some gasoline made from $140-a-barrel oil and some that was purchased for $75 a barrel. That leaves a lot of room for price manipulation. But please, whatever you do, don't think for a minute that's what Tillerson and Exxon Mobil are up to. Just like you and me, they are powerless slaves in the fields of supply and demand. Now tote that barge, lift that barrel.</p><br style="clear: both;"/>
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