by Isaac Cubillos | May 13, 2026 | Energy
Gas prices are like rattlesnakes in the Southwest. You usually hear them before they bite you. Oil crossed back above $100 a barrel this week, and while Wall Street traders may shrug and CNBC talking heads may holler about “market stabilization,” regular Americans are...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 14, 2026 | Energy
April 15, 2026 Update: at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, Rich Starry and other Chinese-owned ships reversed course and are now in Iranian water back inside the Persian Gulf. U.S. Central Command says all ships have now either stopped or reversed courses. Update: At 11 a.m....
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 9, 2026 | Energy
Ceasefire headlines sent oil plunging. Reality sent it roaring back. Welcome to the new war—fought in shipping lanes, not just battlefields. There’s trouble in River City. Not the kind with pool halls and marching bands—this one runs through the Strait of Hormuz,...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 19, 2026 | Energy
If you’re paying around $3.75 a gallon in Florida right now, it feels like the spike already happened. It didn’t. What you’re seeing at the pump reflects oil prices from about a week or two ago—when crude was trading closer to $80 a barrel. But for the past several...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 9, 2026 | Energy
The $80 Oil America Is Complaining About — and the $115 Oil Still Coming There’s a funny thing about gasoline prices. By the time Americans notice them, the thing that caused them already happened a week ago. Last week oil was hovering around $80 a barrel. Today it...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 7, 2026 | Energy
The oil market had one of those days yesterday. The kind traders talk about for years. Crude prices surged so fast that by the closing bell the market had posted the largest weekly gain since modern oil futures trading began in 1983. When the dust settled, West Texas...
