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.
Mr Klare is certainly critical of American policy, particularly of the way the United States has cosied up to nasty regimes because of their supplies of oil, helping prop up the House of Saud, for instance.
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.
Does the SPR offer the White House a tool for influencing the oil market in any way comparable to how forward guidance by the Federal Reserve affects bond markets?
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.
Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden that allowing offshore oil drilling is "one of the most important steps we can take" to reduce that burden.
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.
The White House has declared open season on our domestic oil firms.
The White House is likely more than happy to have oil traders lose sleep wondering if President Obama will send prices plummeting the next morning.
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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.
The restaurant is located inside a Colonial-style farmhouse on the property which also houses the Five-Star hotel, The Fearrington House Inn and features wood floors, oil paintings and floral drapery that creates an English countryside ambiance.
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The House of Saud would be nothing without its vast oil wealth, and it would have lost that wealth long ago were it not for the American muscle that guarantees the security of the Gulf.
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.
Through much of the 2000 campaign for the White House, particularly in the early primary season when home heating oil prices were rising steadily in the Northeast, Bush blasted the Clinton administration for not "jawboning" members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production.
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