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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 5, 2026 | Energy
Most Americans didn’t notice it today. But the energy markets did. West Texas Intermediate crude oil — the benchmark price for U.S. oil — climbed to $82.15 a barrel. That number lives on trading screens in New York. It flashes across terminals used by traders, oil...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 4, 2026 | Energy
Americans didn’t need a briefing from the Pentagon to know something had changed. They saw it Monday morning when the numbers on the gas pump jumped. National gasoline prices across the United States rose 12 cents in a single day, according to petroleum analysts...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 1, 2026 | Energy
Oil Jumps 13% After Iran Strikes — Here Comes the Pain at the Pump Well, that didn’t take long. Brent crude just leapt as much as 13% to $82 a barrel after Iran’s latest round of strikes rattled nerves in the Persian Gulf. Tankers are hesitating. Insurance rates are...
