The National-Bloomberg -- Saudi Arabia has withdrawn as much as US$70 billion from global asset managers as Opec’s largest oil producer seeks to plug its budget deficit after crude slumped, according to financial services market intelligence company Insight…

Let the public shaming of VW diesel car owners begin. In Portland, Oregon, a surprised motorist found a note on the windshield of their VW car admonishing the driver for owning a car that caused so much pollution. A photo of the note was published to popular social media site Instagram. Sadly, consumers with good intentions buying supposed ‘clean diesel’ vehicles have now become targets because of shady corporate dealings.…

GasBuddy Blog -- The news from the U.S. Dept. of Labor last week was reported by the Washington Post as follows: “…unemployment at a seven-year low and a cooling pace of jobs growth — provided conflicting signals about the nation’s economic momentum as the Federal…

The Globe and Mail -- What were they thinking?

That’s the question on everyone’s mind as the Volkswagen crisis unfolds. That question makes a big assumption: that the company’s leaders were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our…

Total Accused of Manipulating U.S. Natural-Gas Market

Nasdaq-Dow Jones Business News -- American regulators have accused French oil company Total SA of manipulating the price of natural gas in the U.S. southwest, the latest move in a widening crackdown on…

GasBuddy Blog -- By now you heard about hackers being able to take over control of a vehicle... it happened in July on I-64 in St. Louis when hackers, in  a planned demonstration took over control of a Jeep Cherokee and safely drove it off the road.



Now, analysts from PT&CLWG Forensic Consulting have identified the…

FX has issued a statement following The League star Steve Rannazzisi admitting he lied about narrowly escaping the 9/11 terror attacks. 

“We are disappointed to learn that Steve Rannazzisi lied about being in the World Trade Center on 9/11. It is upsetting that he would fabricate a story about having survived that horrible tragedy. It is also unfortunate that he did not admit to the…

GasBuddy Blog -- A patent issued in August to Allstate mentions using sensors and cameras to record “potential sources of driver distraction within the vehicle (e.g. pets, phone usage, unsecured objects in vehicle).” It also mentions gathering information on the…

US overtakes Russia as top oil and gas producer, report says

FOX NEWS -- The United States has overtaken Russia as the biggest oil and natural gas producer in the world, in what one economist has described as “a changing of the guard of global energy…

(AP) — A federal appeals court says Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (SHAW’-kah fa-TAH’) can’t keep investigators out of his personal email.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/1Vzy2Ha ) Wednesday’s ruling clears the way for prosecutors to sift through seven years of the Philadelphia Democrat’s private email as they prepare for his racketeering trial.

Fattah has fought for months to block an FBI…

AP) — A second human plague case has been confirmed in New Mexico’s Bernalillo County.

The New Mexico Department of Health says a 59-year-old woman from Bernalillo County is recovering.

Her name isn’t being released.

It’s the third human case of plague in New Mexico this year and the second in Bernalillo County.

The other cases in the state occurred in a 52-year-old woman from Santa Fe County who died from the illness and a 65-year-old man from Bernalillo County…