Officials in Santa Barbara County, California, now say they oppose offshore oil drilling in their county. The Board of Supervisors generated national headlines last summer by endorsing drilling. Their latest vote cites the need to preserve the county’s coastline.

Oil prices have rebounded to above $36 a barrel on expectations that key OPEC members will comply with last week’s promised 2.2 million barrel a day cut in production.

The New Mexico Environment Department is suing Marathon Oil Corp., accusing it of thousands of air pollution violations at a natural gas processing plant west of Carlsbad.

Saudi Arabia isn’t entirely ruling out an OPEC production cut at a hastily convened meeting in Cairo today.

OPEC oil ministers are downplaying expectations of an immediate output cut as they face a third test in as many months of their ability to engineer a rebound in oil prices.

Florida’s Broward Sheriff Office put on their annual demonstration of what can happen if you don’t deep fry a turkey properly, especially if you use a propane gas powered fryer.

Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue has been opposed to drillingm, but her campaign said she would be open to the idea if a team of scientists said it was safe.

More people are reeling in fish as part of a healthy diet, and there is a good reason.  Studies say fatty acids in fish are great for the body.

Iran’s OPEC governor says the organization may consider another cut in oil production due to a glut in the market.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell Tuesday as concerns the global economy could slip into recession and drag down demand outweighed optimism over the bank bailout plans.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline dropped to $3.25 this morning.

Iraqi oil officials are set to meet in London tomorrow with oil-company representatives for the country’s first round of bidding for new contracts since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

On Thursday the federal government considered yet more action to revive credit markets still strangled by the U.S. mortgage meltdown.

Credit crisis fallout seen hitting oil demand

Global stocks plunge on fears credit crisis will widen