Oil troubles the water it floats on this year from the Pacific surf to the Potomac, and even water where it isn’t, along the deep blue coast of Maine, is sullen against it. The 27.5 percent oil ...

According to the Internal Revenue Service, percentage depletion is actually a tax deduction that a business can take in relation to the cost of trying to obtain a natural resource such as oil, gas or ...

Depletion is an everyday experience: The glass of beer starts full and ends empty. We are born, pass prime, and die. Yet, strangely, oil depletion is counterintuitive: Nothing quite like it has ...