“Gas” on The Daily Caller

President Obama will open Alaska’s national petroleum reserve to new drilling, as part of a broad plan aimed at blunting criticism that he is not doing enough to address rising energy prices. (more)

Crude-oil futures settled below $100 a barrel Wednesday, and gasoline plunged nearly 8%, after the CME Group briefly halted trading in New York and raised daily trading limits for certain energy contracts. (more)

Gas prices have jumped nearly 20 cents over the past two weeks, approaching the all-time high, according to a survey published Sunday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars. (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, says Americans could be paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline by 2012. (more)

ROCK HILL, S.C. — A South Carolina woman found out fast food won’t make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running. (more)

President Barack Obama’s decision to open the nation’s coastline to offshore drilling has set up a fracas with Senate Democrats. (more)

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who came to power on pledges of resetting ties with Russia, was expected in Moscow Friday amid efforts to defuse years of tensions between the two neighbors. (more)

MIDDLETOWN – Close to 400,000 cubic feet of gas was released into the atmosphere behind the Kleen Energy building in the final 10 minutes before the explosion that killed six and injured 27, the lead investigator of the Chemical Review Safety Board said today. (more)

EDISON, N.J. (AP) — A gas explosion has leveled a small office building in central New Jersey, just as utility crews were evacuating the area. (more)

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Natural gas production in the Rocky Mountain region’s top gas-producing state declined in 2009 for the first time since 1997, helping push Wyoming into recession along with the rest of the country. (more)

HOUSTON (AP) — Western Gas Partners LP said Thursday that president of its general partner had been promoted to CEO. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Natural gas stockpile levels fell more than expected last week, the government said Thursday. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Energy Department on Thursday is expected to report a draw of 253 billion to 258 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage inventories for the week ended Jan. 8, according to a survey of analysts by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos. (more)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Five companies are willing to pay more than $128 million for the right to drill for natural gas on Pennsylvania public forest land as the cash-strapped state scrounges for money. (more)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A natural gas pipeline that was built to serve a southeastern North Dakota ethanol plant is being tapped to serve other customers. (more)

LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — Energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, leaving Woodside Petroleum Ltd. looking for new customers. (more)