Financial Times | Oil market slides out of control Financial Times For most of the Age of Oil, groups of producers have tried to control its price. From the 1920s, that strategy was co-ordinated by the Railroad Commission of Texas, supported by other US states and federal authorities. Then from the 1970s it was Opec ... To export or not to export: partisan divide over ban on foreign sales of US oil Low oil, natural gas prices continue holding pattern Iran to announce oil output rise at next OPEC meeting: Shana |