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• Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival - 13 May 2013
  posted in Economy & Energy & Environment

  No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority, yet policy gets in the way of democracy and prevents practical solutions. I’ve previously participated in, and reported on, various public meetings and hearings where [...]

• Obama’s EPA nominee stalled as Republicans boycott vote - 10 May 2013
  posted in Energy & Environment & Executive & People & Politics & Govt & Senate

  Republican senators on Thursday stalled the confirmation of President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they were “completely unsatisfied” with answers provided by Gina McCarthy on several topics. Their decision to boycott the Senate Environment Committee meeting on her nomination was the latest in a series of procedural moves by [...]

• Environmentalists are killing the US economy - 06 May 2013
  posted in Columns & Economy & Energy & Environment

  Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was “The Face of Climate Change.” Other than a change in the Post Office cancellation mark on your letters from the usual wavy lines, to the four stick-like wind turbines and a sun symbol, there was little note [...]

• Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports - 01 May 2013
  posted in Big Green & Energy & Environment & Property

  We don’t need to restrict oil or gas exports. We need to open more lands to leasing and drilling. The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D [...]

• A win for rational policy and cost-effective energy - 25 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Green & Columns & Energy & Environment

  You’ve heard the cliché: “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.” Within the past month, I’ve experienced both sides of that adage—in reverse. On April 2, I was driving from Albuquerque to Farmington, NM, where I spoke for the San Juan Country Tea Party group. During the three-hour drive, I listened to talk radio. That was [...]

• Margaret Thatcher: global warming provides a marvelous excuse - 15 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Energy & Environment

  In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism.’” The hundreds of comments the quote received covered a variety of sentiments from hostility to adoration. A couple accused Thatcher of launching [...]

• Most Americans want Keystone, but does Obama care? - 12 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Big Green & Columns & Economy & Energy & Environment

  Pew Research Center’s new poll encouraged the gas price-conscious with its headline, “Keystone XL Pipeline Draws Broad Support,” and a score box showing 63 percent supporting and only 23 percent opposing the pipeline that would transport oil from Canada’s Alberta oil sands through the Plains states to refineries in Texas. However, the report quickly deflated [...]

• BP: Back to Petroleum and Beyond Puff-power - 08 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Energy & Environment

  British Petroleum is still one of the world’s biggest oil companies. But as early as the late 1990s they didn’t want you think of them that way. CEO, Lord John Browne of Madingley, argued: “the transition to alternatives could be accelerated by changing industry practices today.” While other oil companies eschewed climate change alarmism, BP [...]

• New regulations create more wealth for green cronies - 01 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Economy & Energy

  On Good Friday, a day fewer people would be paying attention to the headlines than on most other days, the Obama administration released news about its plans to raise the price of gasoline. Gasoline prices for the first quarter of 2013 are higher than the same time in 2012. Intentionally pushing prices up would seem [...]

• Energy gap leaves Britain freezing in the dark - 29 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Energy

  As freezing temperatures, gales and blizzards of deadly “100-year, record-smashing” spring storms battered Europe this past month, the energy gap I’ve warned about for years hit the headlines: “It’s payback time for our insane energy policy,” snarled London’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Hypothermia has killed thousands, losses to the economy have soared into the billions, and [...]