Energy

• Green Losers
  Are you ready for the complete disappearance of the Arctic ice cap this summer?   That’s what NASA climate scientist Jay [...]
• Wind Energy: the wheels are coming off the gravy train
  The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the [...]
• Climate change and the presidential campaign
  Global warming has been off the energy-news radar as high gas prices have usurped the spotlight—however Defense Secretary Leon Panetta [...]
• Green Loser of the Week
  It might have to be a group award for all the wind power wind bags, for lo—it turns out [...]
• It’s not Al’s fault
  Frequent readers of my column might be surprised to see that I am defending Al Armendariz, the newly resigned EPA [...]
• Crucify all bureaucrats whose “philosophy” is based on ideology and emotion—others will behave better
  The revelation of the EPA’s “philosophy” used in their regulation of oil and gas companies—“crucify” and “make examples” of, just [...]
• Big Green pushes for EPA power grab to stop Pebble Mine
  Last week, as four major environmental groups in Washington were endorsing President Obama’s re-election, eco-bosses from the Natural [...]
• Obama as Lawbreaker
  Nine State Attorneys General TAKE A STAND Against Barack Hussein Obama — Saying He Is A LAWBREAKER! IT’S STARTING — [...]
• Obama’s $10/Gallon Gasoline
  Obama doesn’t really care about the price of gas sky-rocketing right now! He has devious plans for [...]
• This Week’s ClimateFail News
  Another bad week for the climateers. Of course, you could write this headline every week for the last five [...]
• America’s oil melting pot could shrink the trade deficit and boost the declining dollar—without new taxes
  With gas prices continuing to climb, there is an ever-increasing quest for ways to find a culprit that [...]
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Arrogant, Abusive Authority
  Did the Obama administration overstep its authority with its landmark healthcare legislation? During the three-day review, Justice Anthony Kennedy created [...]
• The Science of Half-Baked Ideas
  The more we learn about climate science, the more we learn what a shabby, back-of-the-envelope business it is.  [...]
• Life under an Obama with “more flexibility”—use less, pay more
  President Obama made headlines during his visit to Seoul, South Korea—though not for his public policy statements, rather for his [...]
• EPA’s regulatory shell-game harms Americans’ jobs, health
  Last week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., lobbed two anti-baloney missiles into the armored underbelly of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. [...]
• Does the federal government know better than you?
  President Barack Obama and his liberal cronies are trying to turn America into communist China – where the only way [...]
• Obama’s fake “fossil fuel infatuation tour”
  President Obama must really be feeling the heat of high gas prices. He is on the defense. For the past three [...]
• Obama: Drilling ‘every inch’ of U.S. would not cut gas prices
  President Obama used some dramatic imagery Thursday to defend his claims that more oil and gas drilling won’t help [...]
• Stimulus funds use “smart” technology for surveillance of American citizens–now that’s “stupid”
  With gas prices climbing, so is the popularity of fuel-efficient cars. AltTransport.com, a site “dedicated to giving you the latest [...]
• A new champion for property rights movement
  What should be done about wetlands that aren’t wet and navigable waters that aren’t navigable? These improbable conditions have become key [...]
• How the environmentalists do it
  Third part of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom. The environmental movement has used “green schemes”—campaigns that changed [...]
• Who are the environmentalist extremists?
  Second of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom. So who are all these evil-appearing “environmentalists?” Should all Birkenstock [...]
• Big Green wants to repeal the Industrial Revolution
  First of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom Environmentalists would have everyone believe that oil, gas, and coal—all [...]
• Sen. Paul Questions Energy Secretary on Solyndra Loans
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Below is video and transcript of yesterday’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on oversight of [...]
• Harry Reid Claims Dems will Keep the Senate
  After speaking with CNN about the state of American military affairs in the Middle East, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
• An energy cost misdirection: look here, don’t look there
  We are all squawking about high gasoline prices, but there is an energy misdirection going on. Sabre rattling by Iran has [...]
• Sen. Reid Says Democrats Have Enough Votes to Defeat Pipeline Measure
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said he has the votes to defeat an attempt by Republican lawmakers [...]
• High gas prices: bad for America, good for an election
  I don’t need to use a lot of space telling you why high gas prices are bad for America, but [...]
• Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling
  Panic is in the air as gasoline prices move above $4.00 per gallon. Politicians and pundits are rounding up [...]
• Fossil fuels’ triple “A” rating
  “I’m trying to write a paper on why fossil fuels are good. I was wondering if you could help me [...]
• Obama energy policy cripples justice for Native Americans
  President Obama’s heavy-handed energy regulations and Big Green’s egregious legal delays have crippled the ability of tribal leaders to [...]
• Manmade climate change advocates are behaving like cornered rats
  Public confidence in scientific “consensus” regarding the theory of manmade climate change is threatening the believing scientists’ confidence. While polls [...]
• President Obama’s fake fossil fuel infatuation
  President Obama’s crush on oil and gas was short lived. On January 24, he angered his green base when, in his [...]
• Our High Fuel Prices
  UNDER OBAMA, GAS PRICES HAVE RISEN 83% … AND THEY CONTINUE TO GO UP, UP, UP! Although his jobs council called [...]
• Up From Big Government Conservatism
  It was yet another embarrassing spectacle of Republicans squabbling over who was for big government first. Jim Talent, a former [...]
• The penalties of feel-good energy policies
  Because of the unproven notion that burning fossil fuels causes global warming, saving energy has become the cultural norm with [...]
• All those billions, blowing in the wind
  On February 1, an urgent alert was sent to supporters of wind energy. It stated: “The PTC is the primary [...]
• Bipartisan Group of Senators to Introduce Legislation to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline
  44 Cosponsors Support the Bill WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), David Vitter (R-La.) and a total [...]
• The Volt: what happens when ideology gets ahead of reality
  Mr. President, you are building the wrong car. In a May 2007 speech before the Detroit Economic Club, Candidate Obama chastised [...]
• Obama kills Keystone while defending energy record
  Within 24 hours of rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project—angering unions, industry, and Republicans, President Obama released his first campaign [...]
• Hope across the state line—the human story of hydrofracing
  “To me, the smoke coming out of those stacks is the most beautiful sight in the world. It means there [...]
• The EPA is binge gambling with the heart of the US economy
  Folks who stop at a slot machine in the Las Vegas airport between flights can usually risk the few dollars [...]
• Federally Funded $6 Million ‘Green Jobs’ Boondoggle in Wisconsin: Less than Two Dozen Jobs Created
  The problems with ‘green job’ creation and the incompetence of the federal government are both evident when analyzing how [...]
• Mitt, we have a problem
  Dear Mitt, Congratulations on winning the Iowa Caucus! I know you have worked long and hard for the Republican Presidential Nomination. On [...]
• The Keystone XL pipeline—a line in the sand for America’s future
  Ask people about the future of energy, and you’ll probably hear mention of “solar,” “wind,” and “ethanol.”  These developing energy [...]
• Energy Makes Christmas Great
  In November, I boarded a flight, heading to a speaking engagement later in the day. The flight attendant commented on [...]
• Global Warming: has China had a change of heart or just a change of strategy?
  Following the failure in Copenhagen and Cancun, no one expected much from the UN’s seventeenth year of climate talks that [...]
• Public policy and regulatory decisions driving up electricity rates
  Electricity rates now depend more on public policy and regulatory decisions than on actual costs. Based on a newly released report [...]
• Cut Tax-Help from Pet Industries
  An industry that needs a government handout to survive shouldn’t. Unfortunately, that’s the world we live in. Entire industries rely on [...]
• Pipeline delay gives Obama a fundraising Bonanza
  A week has passed since President Obama made his shocking announcement delaying the Keystone XL pipeline decision until after the [...]
• More Wasted Tax Dollars
  Liberals can’t pretend that Solyndra was a one-time occurrence or that the “green” energy loan program that gave it [...]
• It’s all about energy, cost, and international competition
  We are in an economic war—and it is bigger than Republicans and Democrats battling over tax increases and spending cuts. [...]
• Salazar’s new order contradicts his 2010 order
  Weeks after the infamous BP oil spill in late-April 2010, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency that managed leasing [...]
• Offshore Oil & Energy Regulations
  Cuba plans to build a deep-water rig and drill for oil in its sovereign waters 50 miles off the Florida [...]
• EPA to judge hydraulic fracturing’s affect on drinking water
  The Environmental Protection Agency is about to launch a “federal probe into whether the controversial drilling technique known as [...]
• Permitting access to domestic resources creates jobs
  Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country and is one of the worst in foreclosures. “In my district,” [...]
• Why resort to shenanigans and corruption to make green energy a reality?
  We all know about Solyndra. We are learning about Fisker, the start-up electric car company, which received a $529 million [...]
• Trickle down policy
  “When paperwork gets in the way of benefits, that’s a problem.” So said John Bemis, Secretary-designate of New Mexico’s Energy, [...]
• A battle of David and Goliath proportions
  In the last few weeks a battle has been going on behind the scenes involving the sites who publish my [...]
• How Washington pays Big Green to sue the government
  Two insistent senators have found that even the Government Accountability Office can’t get at all of the millions of [...]
• Unintended consequences of EPA’s regulatory zeal
  With concern over a slowing U.S. economy and 13.9 million unemployed, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating new [...]
• Irene brings the importance of energy to light
  “Coal is making us sick. Oil is making us sick.” So said Senator Harry Reid. As the entire East Coast [...]
• That which we call ethanol subsidies, by any other name, would still stink
  Our federal government continues to run a con that hands six billion taxpayer dollars a year to companies involved [...]
• Changing the Energy/Environment Discussion
  In reaching to remain relevant, the environmental movement has had to change tactics. Back in the seventies, when America looked like [...]
• Obama’s clean energy agenda meets reality
  President Obama’s “clean energy” agenda is rapidly becoming a political liability. Last week, the president delivered an upbeat speech in [...]
• Government Regulatory Process: Filled with Secrecy, Speculation, and Contradiction
  History tells us that listing a critter as an endangered species does little for the species and can do a [...]
• The credit downgrade: a speed bump on the road to ruin
  On Friday, America’s credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+. For the first time since ratings began, America is, [...]
• Are new environmental laws and regulations worth the gamble?
  The local utility company had just released their report outlining how they’d met the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), passed [...]
• MARITA NOON: In Anti-Spending Climate, DOE Gives $4.5 Billion in Taxpayer Backed Guarantees to Solar Manufacturer
  Despite a downward trend in the prices at the pump, overall energy costs are rising. While most people could not [...]
• Environmental Protection Agency: Obama’s Job Killer
  Today, the American work force is being threatened like it has been at no other time in history. Even with [...]
• Obama is packing the government with Big Green ideologues
  President Obama has packed his Cabinet agencies with left-wing ideologues, just like President Roosevelt tried with [...]