Similar worries about pricey oil and faltering house prices may be haunting America's consumers.
And, Qatar-based businessman Hesham Ismail AbdulRahman Al Emadi is leading an ambitious project to create a global network of " Energy Cities" to house the oil and gas industry.
So keep an eye on house prices, oil prices, gold prices and election polls.
Now, with a former oil man in the White House, and energy issues on the front page of the nation's newspapers, Murkowski's bill would open up the refuge for drilling.
Last year, Senegal's voters ousted President Abdoulaye Wade, a French-educated democrat, married to a French woman, in favor of Macky Sall, a 51-year old oil geologist who owns a house in Houston and speaks English with a Texas drawl.
His problem will be convincing sceptics that his sums add up, though it may well be that voters, battered by falling house prices and rising oil prices prefer not to worry too much about that.
It was Carlyle that worked with the White House to buy a Philadelphia oil refinery in September, saving 850 union jobs and averting a fuel-price increase in the Northeast.
The White House has argued that crude oil, despite its high price, is plentiful and that prices for gasoline and other petroleum products are high because refinery capacity is low.
The White House has argued that crude oil, despite its high price, is plentiful, and that gas prices and prices for other petroleum products are high because domestic producers cannot refine their crude supplies quickly enough.
Inside the golden domed State House on Beacon Hill is an oil painting of Romney with a copy of a bill decorated in a medical symbol beside a portrait of his wife Ann.
Yet far from challenging the Saudis' record of breeding extremism, the White House has from the start defended its oil-rich ally.
Two rich Arabs sitting in a coffee house in Riyadh counting their money from oil wealth can have an impact on the price of gold.
In Congress, attention has now shifted to the House in the debate over whether to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, up in Alaska.
It was a sit-in at the White House against a pipeline in the Midwest carrying Canadian oil to the Gulf of Mexico.
The White House also knows BP is currently operating under the Oil Pollution Act, a piece of legislation passed in 1990 by a Democratic Congress.
Both that plan and one from the House are expected to include language to curb excessive oil-market speculation, which many lawmakers believe has artificially caused a spike in oil prices.
On the evening of Nov. 6, in the packed Rockefeller Center salesroom of Christie's auction house, four buyers were vying for a 1955 Picasso oil of Jacqueline, the artist's second wife.
"I have a message for the influence peddlers, for the polluters, the HMOs, the big drug companies that get in the way, the big oil and the special interests -- who now call the White House their home, " Kerry said.
He worked as an oil rig worker off the Scottish coast but rented a room at the house in Churchfields.
The White House appears to be telegraphing that it may intervene in the oil market, via the SPR, in the future.
Hello to the gorgeous soft shelled crab crisped in olive oil, served with melon and prosciutto along with a silky dollop of house made Greek lemon yogurt.
The Bush White House wants to assist Colombia in defending a critical 480-mile oil pipeline.
Earlier today, the White House Natural Resources Committee voted to block BP from getting future offshore oil drilling leases.
The White House says that speculators are distorting those market fundamentals by buying up oil and creating the false perception that shortages exist.
Most of these firms were relatively small until the 1980s, when several oil companies decided that humdrum drilling chores were no longer worth doing in-house.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
The House Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved an amendment to bar new offshore oil and gas drilling permits to BP or any other company with a significant history of violating worker safety or environmental law.
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The Republicans in the House just voted to keep giving billions of taxpayer dollars every year to big oil companies raking in record profits.
Bandar said much the same thing on April 1, after he met with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice at the White House amid concerns that OPEC production cuts might further push up the price of oil, with U.S. gas prices already at record levels.
House Democrats announced a plan of their own on Tuesday that calls for increasing oil production in areas that have already been roped off by the federal government for exploration and drilling -- lands that already account for some 89 percent of the nation's untapped reserves.
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