Energy in America

American diplomats continue to target the Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA as part of the U.S.-led sanctions to cut off financial access from the Maduro's regime.

U.S. stocks fell Friday morning as signs piled up that the global economy is hitting the brakes, headlined by a surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving the benchmark S&P 500 index with its worst weekly showing since January and its eighth loss in the last nine days.

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So far oil demand has held up, especially in China, where imports of crude remain above 10 million barrels per day (bpd).

Investors also responded to worrying export data from China.

Shares tumbled Friday in Asia, led by sharp declines in Shanghai and Hong Kong, after China reported its exports plunged more than 20 percent in February from a year earlier.

U.S. stocks moved lower in morning trading, led by banks and technology companies, putting the market on track for its first losing week since January.

South Dakota is poised to approve laws aimed at potential protests against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, seeking to prevent disruptive demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline that cost neighboring North Dakota nearly $40 million and led to hundreds of arrests beginning in late 2016.

Unlike the Green New Deal, this clean-energy save-the-world initiative backed by real 'green' money -- from Bezos and Microsoft -- could become a reality.

'Solar is big in California and their economy is fine,' said Tom Werner.

U.S. sanctions against the oil industries of OPEC members Iran and Venezuela have also had an impact, traders said.

American families would shell out $65,000 per year, said Sen. Barrasso.

Exxon expects to spend in the range of $63 billion to $65 billion in 2019 and 2020.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called Tuesday for nearly tripling Michigan's per-gallon gas tax — and making the state home to the country's highest fuel taxes — in order to improve aging roads that she warned would only get worse without a major influx of new spending.

Exxon Mobil is boosting its projected growth of oil and gas production in the Permian Basin and says the field can be profitable even at lower crude prices.

The Trump administration made the right call. Not one additional red cent of federal taxpayer money should go towards this liberal pipe dream.

Oil companies are trying to win back investors after years of underperforming other industrial sectors and the S&P 500.

The president of Belarus, who was once dubbed Europe's last dictator, says that he is eager for better ties with NATO in the light of talks about the price Russia charges to sell his country oil.