Rising Gas Prices Good for American Economy & Politics
Gas prices have exceeded $4 per gallon in some places in the U.S. even as the national average remains slightly lower at $3.963 per gallon. This is good news for both the economy and American politics...
View ArticleGas Prices and the Market
The speculators are ripping us off!"The skyrocketing price of gas and oil has nothing to do with the fundamentals of supply and demand, and has everything to do with Wall Street firms that are...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Were For Fracking Before They Were Against It
The world’s projected natural gas supplies jumped 40 percent last year. How is such a thing possible? Until a decade ago, experts believed that it would be technically infeasible to exploit the...
View ArticleIs Inflation Making a Comeback?
Gas is going for more than $4 a gallon, gold is riding a boom, and the Federal Reserve is seemingly complacent about these developments. Among critics of Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke, the consensus is...
View ArticleThe Future of American Energy Policy
Given the red-team/blue-team dynamic of American politics, it was probably inevitable that discussion of energy policy would degenerate into a debate between drillers and renewers—between those who...
View ArticleA Better Way to Frack?
In a major energy security speech this March, President Barack Obama had some nice things to say about a new technique for extracting domestic natural gas deposits: “Recent innovations have given us...
View ArticlePlentiful Fuel
I just learned I'm going to save money! My apartment building in New York will switch from heating oil to cleaner natural gas. Gas is much cheaper than oil now because energy companies found ways to...
View ArticleCharging Ahead
Batteries are now "part of the clean-tech boom, with all the dewy and righteous credibility of thin-film solar and offshore windmills," Seth Fletcher asserts in Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries,...
View ArticleUnsafe at Any Speed
When Washington unveiled its graphic new warning labels for cigarettes last week, several wits asked whether the federal government would slap similar warnings on its own products. To cite just one...
View ArticleThe Price of Big Government
The bio for James Delingpole of the London Telegraph describes him as "a writer, journalist, and broadcaster who is right about everything." The rest of us should probably heed the counsel of a woman...
View ArticleNatural Gas Flip-Flop
The world’s projected natural gas supplies jumped 40 percent last year. Until a decade ago, experts believed it would be technically infeasible to exploit the natural gas locked in 48 shale basins in...
View ArticleThe Coming Autopocalypse
The thinking behind the Obama administration’s proposed new fuel efficiency standards seems to be: What won’t kill the auto industry will make it stronger. But these standards are the regulatory...
View ArticleThe Man-Made Miracle of Oil from Sand
Fort McMurray, Alberta—Standing on the edge of the immense and spectacular pit of an oil sands mine for the first time last week, I was surprised by a sense of exhilaration. Later, seven stories up,...
View ArticleConflict Oil or Canadian Oil?
Fort McMurray, Alberta—This is the second dispatch from my oil sands tour. The first dispatch yesterday focused on the oil sands mining. After our Suncor oil sands mine tour, our band of flacks and...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Low Fuel Bills
President Obama has declared that auto companies' fleets must average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, almost double the current 27.5. Standing at his side when he made the announcement were executives...
View ArticleRick Perry Makes a Good Plan Sound Bad
The biggest problem with the energy plan that Rick Perry released recently is Rick Perry himself. Like a desperate used-car salesman, he is making such outlandish claims for it that his customers might...
View ArticlePoll Finds Americans Want Keystone Pipeline
A new poll by Pew Research found that for people who have heard about the Keystone pipeline, 66% want the government to approve it, with only 23% saying it should not.Republicans were more likely to...
View ArticleOil and Gas Production Up, But Don't Thank the Feds
President Obama recently told a crowd at the University of Miami that “under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years,” noting the “record number...
View ArticleAmericans Remain Supportive of Natural Gas
Despite attempts by environmental activists like Josh Fox and his movie Gasland, American support for natural gas slightly rose in 2012, according to a new Harris poll.Sixty-six percent of Americans...
View ArticleThe Facts Behind EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations
After the defeat of his carbon dioxide cap-and-trade legislation in 2009, President Obama told a room of reporters that there was “more than one way to skin a cat.” And in the new political era of...
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