First, from Rigzone.com: the US energy boom. This is where I would start, with a cup of coffee.
Second, many links at Independent Stock Analysis.
And, from CarpeDiem.com: oil boom due to private enterprise, not central planning. Read this article side-by-side with the Rigzone article above.
I haven't downloaded CarpeDiem.com's poster of the day, but it appears to say: Socialism -- ideas so good, they have to be made mandatory.
If I get the time, I might post a stand-alone on how a number of books that I am reading now (in literature and biographies) talk about Soviet Russia in the 1930's and how their central planning then looks a lot like our central planning now. There really does seem to be an anti-business / anti-capitalism tone in Washington, DC. Maybe it's just my perception but it seems in the 1950's the US government was helping US business; now it seems it is just the opposite.
The books referenced include biographies of Paul Dirac and Edmund Wilson; autobiography of Stephen Spender; and, of course, Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power.
A reader sent this link, an audio on ObamaCare. Thesis: demand for medical care far exceeds supply, and the current discussion in Washington does not address this issue, except through rationing.
