According to the rolling oil rig count by industry services giant Baker Hughes, the oil and gas industry is drilling as much under the first two years of President Barack Obama as it did under the first two years of George W. Bush.

FORBES: Connect

He nearly tripled his party's vote (to 15%) by calling for tighter asylum laws and playing on the disappointment of voters who could not understand why a country rolling in cash from oil and gas should have queues for medical treatment, pensioners on pittances and schools short of computers and textbooks.

ECONOMIST: Norway

"People don't oppose the tax credit, but they oppose the offsets that are going to pay for it, such as rolling back tax incentives the oil and gas industry got in 2005, " says Lowell Ungar, director of policy for the Alliance to Save Energy.

FORBES: Energy Tax Breaks: About To Expire

Rolling 12-month returns for oil and gas trusts have fluctuated between 90% and negative 30% over the past 10 years.

FORBES: Out of Energy

After the 1982 oil crash he spent the decade rolling up failing outfits into big service companies like Weatherford International .

FORBES: Crude Cassandra

It means rolling back billions of dollars of tax breaks to oil companies so we can prioritize investments in clean energy research and development.

WHITEHOUSE: Moving Forward on a New Foundation

As hopeful as the industry may be, pushing LOST to increase oil supply is ultimately akin to Sisyphus rolling his rock up the hill, doomed to watch it fall to the bottom yet again.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: LOST oil prophets

Rolling blackouts were planned across much of Japan and there were concerns about shortages of fuel oil and gasoline.

FORBES: New Explosion Destroys Second Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Building

Given that the Soviets price their oil exports (for example those sold to Eastern Europe) on a five-year rolling average, generally tied to the USSR's five-year plans, the Baltics may be getting no "break" from Moscow at all in the near future.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy